The American Studies Anthology
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Table of Contents for The American Studies Anthology (376 pp.)
Edited by Richard P. Horwitz; WWWeb: http://myweb.uiowa.edu/rhorwitz

Introduction

American Studies
Concerning Selections

America As a New World

How America Was Discovered, Handsome Lake, c. 1735-1815
The Tempest, William Shakespeare, 1611
A Model of Christian Charity, John Winthrop, 1630
Engel v. Vitale, U.S. Supreme Court, 1962
Letter III From an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, 1782
To the United States, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1827
Paddy’s Lament, Irish-American Folksong, ca. 1865
The Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber, 1904
On Being an American, H.L. Mencken, 1922

America As an Independent Nation

Declaration of Independence, Continental Congress, 1776
Declaration of Sentiments, Woman’s Rights Convention, 1848
Independence Day Speech, John Wannuaucon Quinney, 1854
The Significance of the Frontier in American History, Frederick Jackson Turner, 1893
American Progress, John Gast, 1872
The Spirit of the West, Edwin Howland Blashfield, 1910
Vietnam's Declaration of Independence, Ho Chi Minh, 1945
Independence Day, Gretchen Peters, 1993
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass, 1852

America As a Place to Belong

Americanism and the Foreign-Born, Woodrow Wilson, 1915
Objections Answered, Alice Stone Blackwell, 1913
Ain’t I a Woman? Sojourner Truth, 1851
Trans-National America, Randolph Bourne, 1916
Americanism, The American Legion, 1919
Statue of Liberty, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, 1886
Americans All, Howard Chandler Christy, 1919
The Melting Pot, Fourth-of-July parade, Wethersfield, 1913
Goddess of Democracy, Beijing, 1989
Chinese Protest Belgrade Bombing, 1999
Century Readings, Fred Lewis Pattee, 1919
The One Hundred Percent American, Ralph Linton, 1937
National Brotherhood Week, Tom Lehrer, 1965
America, Claude McKay, 1953
This Land Is Your Land, Woody Guthrie, 1940

America As a Land of the Free

Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln, 1863
Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, Joe Ronsenthal and Felix DeWeldon, 1945 and 1954
Manzanar Relocation Center, Dorothea Lange, 1942
The American System, Herbert Hoover, 1928
The Four Freedoms, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1941
Freedom From Want, Norman Rockwell, 1943
Bowers v. Hardwick, U.S. Supreme Court, 1986
Puerto Ricans, Langston Hughes, 1961
Wrestling With The Hard One, Ana Lydia Vega, 1994
POPism, Andy Warhol, 1975
Five Coke Bottles, Andy Warhol, 1962
“Cheers” and “Give and Take,” Say I, Haddon Sundblom, 1944 and 1937
A Great Wall: An American Comedy Made in China, Peter Wang and Shirley Sun, 1986
Great Castigation Series: Coca-Cola, Wang Guangyi, 1993
Okie From Muskogee, Merle Haggard and Roy Burris, 1969
Wasteland of the Free, Iris DeMent, 1996
Of Our Spiritual Strivings, W. E. B. DuBois, 1903

America As an Empire

The Utility of the Union, Publius (Alexander Hamilton), 1787
The Monroe Doctrine, James Monroe, 1823
The European Colonizations of America, Arthur de Gobineau, 1855
The White Man’s Burden, Rudyard Kipling, 1899
Cast Away Illusions, Prepare For Struggle, Mao Tse-tung, 1949
U.S. and Mexican Pastimes, Mexican Embassy, 1946
Ugly American Sightings, Internet Bulletin Board, 2000
Australia as Uncle Sam, 1909
Uncle Sam Welcomes Mexico, Panama-California Exposition, 1915
Chinese Pose as Auto Tourists Near San Francisco, postcard, 1910
U.S. Tourist Poses in Havana, Constantino Arias, 1948
Letter To Americans, E. P. Thompson, 1986

America As a Culture

The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1837
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transcendental Critic, Vernon L. Parrington, 1927
Factors in American Literary History, Norman Foerster, 1925
Middletown Faces Both Ways, Robert and Helen Merrell Lynd, 1937
Plainville Social Class, James West (Carl A. Withers), 1945
Cultural Locations: Postioning American Studies in the Great Debate, Alice Kessler-Harris, 1992

Bibliography

Suggestions For Further Reading on Roots of American Studies
Credits for Selections, Citations, and Visuals