PLSI-3465 American Political Thought

Analyzes the ideas and ideals of America, as they have been imagined, cultivated, and practiced. Explores the writings of puritans, founders, indigenous people, revolutionaries, enslaved persons, abolitionists, federalists, anti-federalists, transcendentalists, utopian socialists, feminists, anarchists, pragmatists, progressives, and conservatives, all aimed toward analyzing the contested concept of "America" as it unfolds in variety of genres, from novels and political treatises, essay and autobiography, declarations and pamphlets, narrative and speeches.