Problems in American Thought (Fall 2008)
Posted in American Thought on August 13th, 2008Welcome History 302 Students!
Ex Post Facto includes several of my blog posts that are assigned reading. (These readings are indicated by “EPF” on the syllabus, in parentheses next to the regular assigned readings.)
The Writing category includes the Writing Rules for the course as well as other tips on writing. See especially the piece on topic sentences and the warning regarding pseudo-theses.
For your convenience, here is a list of the assigned posts, in order:
- Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener”
- Early American Murder Narratives
- Enlightenment and Its Discontents
- Franklin, Paine, and the Enlightenment
- Emerson’s Giant
- Margaret Fuller’s “Great Lawsuit”
- Thoreau and Disobedience
- Interview with Curtis White on “The Spirit of Disobedience”
- Introduction to Curtis White’s The Spirit of Disobedience
- Curtis White, The Spirit of Disobedience, 2
- Curtis White, The Spirit of Disobedience, 3
You are not required to make comments, but I have preserved the comments from my Fall 2007 students, which you are welcome to read. Feel free to comment yourself, too, of course. –DV
