Readings
Here are the books for the Spring 2014 semester. They’ll be in the bookstore, or check used booksellers online for best prices. Make sure you get the right edition of Walden so we’re all on the same page for class discussion. Additional readings will be available as PDFs on this website or posted on the course Blackboard page.
Sheila L. Skemp, Judith Sargent Murray: A Brief Biography with Documents (Bedford St Martins) ISBN 0312-115067
David Howard-Pitney, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s (Bedford St Martins) ISBN 978-0312395056
(Note: if buying from the university bookstore, they have bundled the two above books in a single package for a better price)
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (Signet Classics Reissue Ed 2012) ISBN 978-0451532169
Howard Fineman, The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates that Define and Inspire Our Country (Random House, 2009) ISBN 978-0812976359
Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2001) ISBN 978-0374528492 (Required for the H = Honors section, recommended for all students)
