Alan B. Howard
427 Bryan Hall
Office Hours: MW 2:00-3:30
1-804-924-6644 or abh9h@virginia.edu
8/28:Organization and Introduction
8/30: Summer Reading I
9/2: Summer Reading II:
9/9: Summer Reading III
9/16: American Studies: Getting the Lay of the Land
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9/23: From American Studies to American Cultural Studies
Note #2: scanned articles to be posted by 9/23
9/30: Classic Paradigms I: In the Beginning.
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10/7: Classic Paradigms II: The Middle Ground
Origin of the Anglo-Americans and the Importance of their Origins in Relation to Thier Future
Condition,
The Necessity of Examining the Condition of hte States Before That of the Union at Large,
The Federal Constitution,
Liberty of the Press in the United States,
Government of Democracy in the United States,
Main Causes Tending to Maintain a Democratic Republic in the United States,
The Present and Probably Future condition of the Three Races that Inhabit the Territory of the
United States,
Influence of Democracy on the Action of Intellect in The United States,
Philosophical
Method of The Americans,
Of the Principal Source of Belief Among Democratic Nations,
Why the Americans Show More General Aptitude and Taste for General Ideas that their
Forefathers, The English,
Why the Americans have never been so Eager as the French for General Ideas in Political
Affairs,
How Equality Suggests to the Americans the Indefinite Perfectibility of Man,
In What Spirit the Americans Cultivate the Arts,
Literary Characteristics of Democratic Times,
How American Democracy has Modified the English Language,
Why Democratic Nations show a More Ardent and Enduring Love for Equality than Liberty,
Of Individualism in Democratic Countries,
Of the Uses which Americans make of Public Associations,
Of the Taste for Physical Well-being in America,
What Causes Almost All Americans to Follow an Industrial Calling,
How an Aristocracy may be Created by Manufacures,
How Customs are Softened as Social Conditions become more Equal,
Influence of Democracy on the Family,
How Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes,
Of Honour in the United States and in Democratic Communities,
Why Democratic Nations Naturally Desire Peace and Democratic Armies War,
Why the Idea of Democratic Peoples about Government Naturally Favors the Concentration of
Politieal Power,
What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations have to Fear,
General Survey of the Subject.
10/14: The Middle Ground (continued)
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10/21: Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land
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10/28: Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden.
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11/4: Allen Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America.
11/11: The Real Thing.
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11/25:T. J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace
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12/2: de Tocqueville, Democracy in America -- The Hypertext.
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12/6: Classes End.
12/09: Exams Begin.
12/13: Exams End.