America's distinct philosophy stems from a powerful body of thought that extends back to the first European settlers and that was enriched by later generations of American thinkers including Jonathan Edwards, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, William James, and Martin Luther King Jr. Explore the immensely stimulating conversation that made the United States what it is today with <strong>The American Mind</strong>, 36 lectures that provide you with a broad survey of American intellectual history. In this course, delve into the philosophical underpinnings of our nation and trace ideas in politics, religion, education, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, literature, social theory, and science as they helped build the elaborate structure that became modern America. Taught by distinguished historian and award-winning Professor Allen C. Guelzo, this course takes you to the heart of what it means to think like-and be-an American.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Intellectual Geography of America
- 02: The Technology of Puritan Thinking
- 03: The Enlightenment in America
- 04: Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening
- 05: The Colonial Colleges
- 06: Republican Fundamentals
- 07: Nature’s God and the American Revolution
- 08: Deism, Science, and Revolution
- 09: Hamilton and His Money
- 10: Jefferson and His Debts
- 11: The Edwardseans—From Hopkins to Finney
- 12: The Moral Philosophers
- 13: Whigs and Democrats
- 14: American Romanticism
- 15: Faith and Reason at Princeton
- 16: Romanticism in Mercersburg
- 17: Slaveholders and Abolitionists
- 18: Lincoln and Liberal Democracy
- 19: The Failure of the Genteel Elite
- 20: Darwin in America
- 21: Liberalism and the Social Gospel
- 22: The Agony of William James
- 23: Josiah Royce—The Idealist Dissenter
- 24: John Dewey and Social Pragmatism
- 25: Socialism in America
- 26: Populists, Progressives, and War
- 27: Decade of the Disenchanted
- 28: The Social Science Revolution
- 29: The New South versus the New Negro
- 30: FDR and the Intellectuals
- 31: Science under the Cloud
- 32: Ironic Judgments
- 33: Mass Culture and Mass Consumption
- 34: Integration and Separation
- 35: The Rebellion of the Privileged
- 36: The Neo-Conservatives
Taught by
Allen C. Guelzo
