American Political Thought and Culture: Confronting the Crisis

Harvard HKS

This course invites American and international students to explore two hundred and fifty years of American political thinking and the culture that has developed alongside it. We’ll cover everything from the founding documents to President Trump’s Inaugural Addresses, interrogating the key philosophical ideas that have informed and inspired American revolutionaries, abolitionists, suffragists, progressives, conservatives, civil rights advocates, libertarians, populists, fundamentalists, and…