HI 215 History of American Thought

Here are the books for the Spring 2010 semester.
They’ll be in the bookstore, or check used booksellers online for best prices. Additional readings will be available as PDFs on the course Blackboard page.

Sheila L. Skemp, Judith Sargent Murray: A Brief Biography with Documents (ISBN 0312-115067)

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (ISBN 978-0451529459)

Martha H. Patterson, The American New Woman Revisited: A Reader 1894-1930 (ISBN 978-081354296-6)

David Howard-Pitney, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s (ISBN 978-0312395056)

Highly recommended (we will be reading portions, and you might want to have the entire text): Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (ISBN 978-0374528492)