The American Intellectual Tradition: A SourcebookVolume I: 1630-1865

by David A. Hollinger (editor), Charles Capper (Editor)

Revised and expanded, the second edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology of many of the most significant documents in American intellectual history offers new selections from a diversity of authors; an extensive chronology connecting several hundred important books and
essays with events in American and European intellectual, cultural, and political history; and updated bibliographies and headnotes. The anthology makes readily available substantial selections from the writings of prominent American thinkers, ranged chronologically from the establishment of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 to the present. Designed for easy use by a wide range of readers, it is an invaluable reader for anyone interested in intellectual history, American history, American studies, or American literature.
Volume I (to 1865) now offers new selections by Sarah M. Grimké, Horace Bushnell, and Louisa S. McCord, and Volume II (1865-present) now offers new selections by Charles Hodge, Henry Adams, George Santayana, W.E.B. Du Bois, Randolph Bourne, H.L. Mencken, John Crowe Ransom, Meridel Le Sueur,
Reinhold Niebuhr, Ralph Ellison, Whittaker Chambers, Betty Friedan, Adrienne Rich, Evelyn Fox Keller, Richard Rorty, and Michael Walzer.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, American History

488 pages, Paperback

First published March 30, 1989

About the author

Preston Hotchkis Professor of History (Emeritus)
University of California at Berkeley

One of the pre-eminent intellectual historians in and of the United States.

Past President of the Organization of American Historians (2010-2011); Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; former Guggenheim Fellow, Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and Harmsworth Professor of the University of Oxford.

Reviews

[Scott Jackson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Introduced to Hollinger's intellectual history from A Century of American Historiography by Banner. This was my favorite undergraduate book. It was excellent to revisit it after acquiring more of a background of each thinker.

[Karl H · Rating 1 out of 5]

100%. Pointless rambling nonsense book.

[Kim]

Read this while finishing a B.S. in History. Includes primary sources such as selections from Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Samuel Willards, A Compleat Body of Divinity, John Adams' A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law, Madison's The Federalist "Number 51," and "Number 10." Enjoyed it very much! Used it to write a paper, "The Main Ideas of the American Enlightenment."

[Becca Young · Rating 5 out of 5]

Charles Capper is my professor at BU and he is by far my favorite professor at the university. His explanations for choosing the selections that he did for this volume are logical and progressive. Great anthology!

[Jacqueline · Rating 4 out of 5]

The writing style can be a little difficult to read, but a great collection of American writers with great insight on the founding and history or America and American thought.

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

very very very good anthology

[Jonathan]

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