Classics of American Thought II: Reconstruction through the Twentieth Century

3 Credits

This multidisciplinary course surveys the ideas, texts, and authors that have shaped the American tradition and its attendant concepts of freedom, democracy, equality, and nationhood. Students will learn about America’s cultural and political heritage by reading and discussing great works of philosophy, constitutional interpretation, political thought, history, literature, and the arts, beginning in Reconstruction and concluding at the end of the twentieth century.