This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

Readings

Allan, Lewis. "Strange Fruit." Perf. Billie Holliday.

Allen, James, et al. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. Santa Fe, N.M.: Twin Palms, 2000.

Berry, Wendell. "The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Character." In The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. San Francisco, Calif.: Sierra Club Books, 1977, pp. 17-26.

Cabranes, José A. "Some Common Ground." In Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution. Edited by Christina Duffy Burnett and Burke Marshall. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001, pp. 39-47.

Carnegie, Andrew. "How I Served My Apprenticeship" (1896). In The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays. Edited by Edward C. Kirkland. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962, pp. 3-13.

Conwell, Russell H. "Acres of Diamonds" (c. 1882). In Acres of Diamonds. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915.

DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Penguin, 1989 [1903], pp. 36-50.

Foner, Eric. A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1990, pp. xi-xvi, 1-15, 104-198.

Friedan, Betty. "The Problem That Has No Name." In The Feminine Mystique. New York: Norton, 2001 [1963], pp. 15-32.

Ginsberg, Allen. "America" (1956). In The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 2nd ed. Edited by Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair. New York: Norton, 1988, pp. 1216-1218.

Johnson, Lyndon B. "Speech at Johns Hopkins University" (1965). In Vietnam Documents: American and Vietnamese Views of the War. Edited by George Katsiaficas. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1992, pp. 200-205.

Kasson, John F. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. New York: Hill & Wang, 1978.

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter. 1980.

Liu, Eric. The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker. New York: Random House, 1998.

Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905).

Luce, Henry R. "The American Century" (1941). In The Ideas of Henry Luce. Edited by John K. Jessup. New York: Atheneum, 1969, pp. 105-120.

Maier, Pauline, et al. Inventing America: A History of the United States. New York: Norton, 2003.

May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era, 2nd ed. New York: Basic Books, 1999, pp. ix-xxvi, 1-29, 80-203.

Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Dial Press, 1968, pp. 1-117, 261-384.

Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412 (1908).

O'Brien, Tim. "On the Rainy River." In The Things They Carried. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990, pp. 39-61.

O'Connor, Flannery. "Everything That Rises Must Converge." In Everything That Rises Must Converge. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965, pp. 3-23.

Reich, Robert B. The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for Twenty-First-Century Capitalism. New York: Vintage Books, 1992, pp. 3-9, 43-57, 119-135, 301-315.

Roosevelt, Theodore. "The Strenuous Life." In The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses. St. Clair Shores, Mich.: Scholarly Press, 1970 [1902], pp. 1-21.

Sumner, William Graham. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other. New York: Arno Press, 1972 [1883], pp. 7-24, 63-87.

Susman, Warren I. "Culture Heroes: Ford, Barton, Ruth." In Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984, pp. 122-149.

Twain, Mark. "As Regards Patriotism" (1901). In Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, 1891-1910. Edited by Louis J. Budd. New York: Viking Press, 1992, pp. 474-478.

United Nations General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. UNESCO, 1948.

Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. New York: Penguin, 1986 [1901], pp. 217-237.

Yezierska, Anzia. "How I Found America" (1920). In American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories. Edited by Gerald Shapiro. Lincoln, Neb: University of Nebraska Press, 1998, pp. 15-37.