BØKER:
Mauk and Oakland: American Civilization, An Introduction Fourth Edition, London and New York: Routledge, 2005.
O’Callaghan: An Illustrated History of the USA London: Longman, 200? [last printing] ISBN – 0-852-74921-2
KOMPENDIUM:
Bernhard-Henri Levy, American Vertigo (New York: Random House, 2006), 173-179.
John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (Athens: Ohio State University Press, 1954), 143-149. [bare kopier]
Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative (Shepherdsville, Ky., Victor Pub. Co., 1960), 12, 34, 64, 71, 114 [bare kopier]
Patricia J. Williams, Seeing a Color-Blind Future (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997), 31-45.
Bread and Roses, “Declaration of Women’s Independence,” in Dear Sisters, Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon eds. (New York Basic Books, 2000), 45-47.
American Federation of Teachers, “AFT Resolution on Women’s Rights,” in Dear Sisters, Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon eds. (New York Basic Books, 2000), 263.
Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (New York Balantine Books, 1999), 1-15.
Desmond King, Making Americans (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2000), 11-49, 243-253, 270-291.
Edmund Wilson, I Thought of Daisy (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967; originally pub, 1929), 274-286, 303-304 [se kopier i boken]
Van Wyck Brooks, “The Sargasso Sea,” from America’s Coming of Age reprinted in Three Essays on America (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970; orig. pub. 1915), 100-112.
Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa (Morrow Quill paperbacks, 1961; orig. pub, 1928), 195-211.
Robert N. Bellah, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in the Time of Trial (New York: The Seabury Press, 1975), 3-16, 22-25.
Herbert G. Gutman, Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America (New York: Vinatge Books, 1976), 32-52.
Henry David Thoreau, “Concord River” from A Week on the Merrimac and Concord Rivers (Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1906), 2-11.
Demos, John. “Digging Up Family History: Myths, Realities, and Works-in-Progress” Jabour, Anya. (ed.) Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children, Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2005, 3-13.
Coontz, Stephanie. “Mythology and History in the Study of the American Family” Jabour, Anya. (ed.) Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children, Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2005, 14-23.
Griffith, Robert and Baker, Paula. (ed.). Major Problems in American History Since 1945, 2nd ed., Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2001. “Graphical Illustrations of How to Respond to a Nuclear Attack, 1950.” 135-136.
Boyer, Paul. When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1992. “Prologue: The Hidden World of Prophecy Belief.” 1-18. “United States in Prophecy.” 225-253.
Putman, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York, London, Toronto, and Sydney: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. 2001. “Religious Participation.” 65-79.
Sobel, Michael. “How Black and White Cultures Merged: Culture as Social Relations,” in Holt, Thomas C. (ed.) Major Problems in African-American History Volume I From Slavery to Freedom_, 1619-1877. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2000, 140-156.
Ch. 5 (Excerpts), I (Red) Holt, T.C. & Brown, E.B. Major Problems in African-American History Volume I From Slavery to Freedom, 1619-1877. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2000, 160-162.
Kulikoff, Allan. “How Africans Became African Americans” in Holt, Thomas C. (ed.) Major Problems in African-American History Volume I From Slavery to Freedom, 1619-1877, 182-194.
Lapansky, Emma Jones. “The Roots of Resistance in Free Black Communities” in Holt, Thomas C. (ed.) Major Problems in African-American History Volume I From Slavery to Freedom, 1619-187, 308-321.
Nader, Ralph. Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile. New York: Grossman Publishers. 1965. “The Stylists: It’s the Curve that Counts.” 210-231.
Fishman, Charles. The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works – and How It’s Transforming the American Economy. New York: The Penguin Press. 2006. “Wal-Mart and the Descent of Society” 219-247.
NORAM 1520 Pensum, del 2
All texts listed below are available at the website American Studies @ University of Virginia
Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull House Chapter 11, “Immigrants and their Children”
Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio “Godliness”
Crevecouer, J. Hector St. John De. Letters from an American Farmer Letter III: “What is an American?”
Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography Part I, pp.1-30 Part II, pp. 4-13 “Chief Events in Franklin’s Life”
James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience Lectures IV and V: “The Religion of Healthy Mindedness”
Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature Chap 1, “The Spirit of Place”
Lippman, Walter. Public Opinion Chapter 15, “The Leaders and the Rank and File” Chapter 24, “News, Truth and a Conclusion”
Parrington, Vernon Louis, Main Currents in American Thought Volume 2 > Book 1> “The Heritage of Jeffersonianism” Volume 2 > Book III > Part 2, > “The Social Mind: The Puritan Conscience individual rather than social” Volume 2 > Book III> Part 3 > “Ralph Waldo Emerson” Volume 3 > “Introduction: the Great Revolution”
Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land Chapter 4 > “Walt Whitman and Manifest Destiny” Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America Part I, Chapter 12, “Political Associations in the United States” Part I, Chapter 15, “Unlimited Power of the Majority in the United States and its Consequences” Part II, Chapter 5, “Of the Use the Americans Make of the Public Associations in Civil Life”
Trachtenburg, Alan. The Incorporation of America Ch 2. “Mechanization Takes Command”
Turner, Frederick Jackson, The Significance of the Frontier in American History Chapter I
Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Chapter 2, “The Spirit of Capitalism”