美国读本

i. from colony to constitution: 1620---

a. colonial mind

john smith: a description of new england (excerpt) (1616)

mayflower compact (1620)

john winthrop: the little speech (excerpt) (1639)

roger williams: the bloody tenet of persecution, for cause of

conscience (excerpt) (1644)

benjamin franklin: the way to wealth (1757)

b. making the revolution

samuel adams: the rights of the colonists (excerpt) (1772)

patrick henry: give me liberty or give me death (1775)

thomas jefferson: declaration of independence (1776)

thomas paine: the american crisis (i) (excerpt) (1777)

c. american character and thoughts on the constitution

hector st. john de crevecoeur: letters from an american farmer what

is an american (excerpt)(1782)

james madison: the federalist essays no. 10 (1787)

i. from colony to constitution: 1620---

a. colonial mind

john smith: a description of new england (excerpt) (1616)

mayflower compact (1620)

john winthrop: the little speech (excerpt) (1639)

roger williams: the bloody tenet of persecution, for cause of

conscience (excerpt) (1644)

benjamin franklin: the way to wealth (1757)

b. making the revolution

samuel adams: the rights of the colonists (excerpt) (1772)

patrick henry: give me liberty or give me death (1775)

thomas jefferson: declaration of independence (1776)

thomas paine: the american crisis (i) (excerpt) (1777)

c. american character and thoughts on the constitution

hector st. john de crevecoeur: letters from an american farmer what

is an american (excerpt)(1782)

james madison: the federalist essays no. 10 (1787)

george washington: first inaugural address (1789)

ii. democratic development and cultural formation:1820--1863

a. development and democracy

andrew jackson: the majority is to govern (excerpt) (1829)

alexis de tocqueville: social condition of the anglo-americans(from

democracy in america) (1835)

ralph waldo emerson: the american scholar (excerpt) (1837)

henry david thoreau: civil disobedience (excerpt) (1848)

b. voices of the disadvantaged

elizabeth cady stanton:

the seneca falls declaration of sentiments and resolutions

(1848)

frederick douglass: speech at the anti-slavery association

(excerpt) (1848)

seattle: the indian's night promises to be dark (1853)

c. causes of the civil war

george fitzhugh: cannibals all! or, slaves without masters

(excerpt) (1857)

abraham lincoln: the emancipation proclamation (1863)

iii. reconstruction and industrialization: 1865--1900

a. the american dream: imagination and faith

horatio alger: ragged dick (excerpt) (1867)

walt whitman: democracy (excerpt) (1867)

b. visions of and criticisms about progress

thomas alva edison: on the industrial research laboratory

(1887)

frederick turner: the significance of the frontier in american

history (excerpt) (1893)

thorstein veblen: "conspicuous consumption"(excerpt from the theory

of the leisure class) (1899)

john dewey: my pedagogic creed (excerpt) (1897)

iv. the rise of the american age: 1900---1950

a. business and entrepreneurialism

john wanamaker: on the department store (excerpt) (1900)

frederick winslow taylor: on scientific management (excerpt)

(1912)

henry ford: my life and work (excerpt) (1922)

b. the voice of the oppressed

w.e.b dubois: the souls of black folks (excerpt) (1903)

"manifesto" of industrial workers of the world (1905)

c. american ideas

william james: pragmatism (excerpt) (1907)

woo&ow wilson: the meaning of democracy (1912) /

h. l. mencken: preface to the american language (1919)

herbert hoover: american individualism (excerpt) (1922)

henry fairchild: the melting-pot mistake (excerpt) (1926)

d. the conquer of fear, a vision of american mission and the will

to prevail

franklin d. roosevelt: first inaugural address (1933)

henry luce: the american century (excerpt) (1941)

william faulkner: speech on acceptance of the nobel prize

(1950)

v. contemporary america: dominance and struggle: 1950---2009

a. social criticism and the cold war fanaticism in the

fifties

david riesman: preface to the lonely crowd (excerpt) (1950)/

c. wright mills: preface to white collar:the american middle

classes (excerpt) (1951)

joseph mccarthy: speech at wheeling, west virginia (excerpt)

(1950)

b. the atomized america: the turbulent sixties

tom hayden: students for a democratic society: the port huron

statement (excerpt) (1962)

martin luther king: letter from the birmingham city jail (excerpt)

(1963)

lyndon baines johnson: the great society speech (excerpt)

(1965)

betty friedan: our revolution is unique (excerpt) (1968)

c. reclaiming america in the age of the three worlds

henry a. kissinger: strengthening the world economic structure

(1975)

ronald reagan: farewell address (1988)

d. toward the challenges in the new century

michael walzer: what does it mean to be an "american"? (excerpt)

(1990)

bill clinton: address before a joint session of congress (excerpt)

(1993)

toni morrison: nobel lecture (1993)

george w. bush: speech addressed to the congress about the war

against terrorism (2001)

samuel p. huntington: anglo-protestant culture (excerpt from whoare

we?) (2003)

barack obama: inaugural address (2009)

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