The American studies anthology

Introduction / Richard P. Horwitz

Pt. I. America as a New World

1. How America Was Discovered (c. 1735-1815) / Handsome Lake

2. Tempest (1611) / William Shakespeare

3. Model of Christian Charity (1630) / John Winthrop

4. Engel v. Vitale (1962) / U.S. Supreme Court

5. Letter III from an American Farmer (1782) / J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

6. To the United States (1827) / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

7. Paddy's Lament (ca. 1865) / Irish-American Folksong

8. Spirit of Capitalism (1904) / Max Weber

9. On Being an American (1922) / H. L. Mencken

Pt. II. America as an Independent Nation

10. Declaration of Independence (1776) / Continental Congress

11. Declaration of Sentiments (1848) / Woman's Rights Convention

12. Independence Day Speech (1854) / John Wannuaucon Quinney

13. Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893) / Frederick Jackson Turner

14. Vietnam's Declaration of Independence (1945) / Ho Chi Minh

15. Independence Day (1993) / Gretchen Peters

16. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) / Frederick Douglass

Pt. III. America as a Place to Belong

17. Americanism and the Foreign-Born (1915) / Woodrow Wilson

18. Objections Answered (1913) / Alice Stone Blackwell

19. Ain't I a Woman? (1851) / Sojourner Truth

20. Trans-National America (1916) / Randolph Bourne

21. Americanism (1919) / American Legion

22. Century Readings (1919) / Fred Lewis Pattee

23. One-Hundred Percent American (1937) / Ralph Linton

24. National Brotherhood Week (1965) / Tom Lehrer

25. America (1953) / Claude McKay

26. This Land Is Your Land (1940) / Woody Guthrie

Pt. IV. America as a Land of the Free

27. Gettysburg Address (1863) / Abraham Lincoln

28. American System (1928) / Herbert Hoover

29. Four Freedoms (1941) / Franklin Delano Roosevelt

30. Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) / U.S. Supreme Court

31. Puerto Ricans (1961) / Langston Hughes

32. Wrestling with the Hard One (1994) / Ana Lydia Vega

33. POPism (1975) / Andy Warhol

34. Okie from Muskogee (1969) / Merle Haggard and Roy Burris

35. Wasteland of the Free (1996) / Iris DeMent

36. Of Our Spiritual Strivings (1903) / W. E. B. DuBois

Pt. V. America as an Empire

37. Utility of the Union (1787) / Publius (Alexander Hamilton)

38. Monroe Doctrine (1823) / James Monroe

39. European Colonizations of America (1855) / Arthur de Gobineau

40. White Man's Burden (1899) / Rudyard Kipling

41. Cast Away Illusions, Prepare for Struggle (1949) / Mao Tse-Tung

42. U.S. and Mexican Pastimes (1946) / Mexican Embassy

43. Ugly American Sightings (2000) / Internet Bulletin Board

44. Letter to Americans (1986) / E. P. Thompson

Pt. VI. America as a Culture

45. American Scholar (1837) / Ralph Waldo Emerson

46. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transcendental Critic (1927) / Vernon L. Parrington

47. Factors in America Literary History (1925) / Norman Foerster

48. Middletown Faces Both Ways (1937) / Robert Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd

49. Cultural Locations: Positioning American Studies in the Great Debate (1992) / Alice Kessler-Harris

Suggestions for Further Reading on the Roots of American Studies.