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Problems in American Thought (Fall 2009)

Posted in American Thought on August 10th, 2009

Welcome History 302 Students!

Ex Post Facto includes several of my blog posts that are optional reading.

For your convenience, here is a list of the relevant posts, in order:

  1. Thoreau’s Principles
  2. Early American Murder Narratives
  3. Enlightenment and Its Discontents
  4. Franklin, Paine, and the Enlightenment
  5. Emerson’s Giant
  6. Margaret Fuller’s “Great Lawsuit”
  7. Thoreau and Disobedience
You are not required to make comments, but I have preserved the comments from previous semesters, which you are welcome to read. Feel free to comment yourself, too, of course.  –DV

Curtis White, The Spirit of Disobedience, 3

Posted in American Thought on December 12th, 2007

Curtis White, The Spirit of Disobedience, 2

Posted in American Thought on December 6th, 2007

Introduction to Curtis White’s The Spirit of Disobedience

Posted in American Thought on December 4th, 2007

Interview with Curtis White on the “Spirit of Disobedience”

Posted in American Thought on December 4th, 2007

Niebuhr, “The Truth In Myths,” 1937

Posted in American Thought on November 29th, 2007