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

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

The fourth edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology has been expanded to connect over a thousand important books, essays, and artistic works with events in American and European intellectual, cultural, and political history. After extensive consultation with instructors who
assign these volumes to students, the editors have revised this edition to include more discussions of religion, psychology, social theory, gender, ethnicity, and the role of the United States in the world. Ranging chronologically from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 to the present, The
American Intellectual Tradition, 4/e , is invaluable for courses in intellectual history and an excellent supplement for classes in American history, American studies, and American literature.
Volume I now offers new selections from Jonathan Edwards, "Brutus," Judith Sargent Murray, William Ellery Channing, Nathaniel William Taylor, Charles Grandison Finney, William Lloyd Garrison, Orestes Brownson, Martin Delany and Margaret Fuller; and includes writings of John Winthrop, John Cotton,
Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Sarah Grimké, George Bancroft, Catharine Beecher, Henry C. Carey, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau,
Horace Bushnell, Herman Melville, John C. Calhoun, Louisa McCord, George Fitzhugh, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, American History

576 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 · 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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