abolitionism, 41, 43, 75–76. See also slavery/antislavery
Absurd Effort to Make the World Over, The (1894). See Sumner, William Graham
academia. See institutions: colleges/universities
Achieving Our Country (1998). See Rorty, Richard
Acosta, José de, 13
Adams, James Truslow, 125
Adams, John, 33, 36, 45–46, 49
Africa, 7, 25, 41, 71, 100, 125, 169;
South Africa, 174. See also slavery/antislavery
African Americans, 41–43, 75–77, 88, 111, 113, 120, 123, 128–129, 152, 154;
and Black Power, 166;
and folk songs, 71;
and literacy/literature, 70–71, 143–144;
and lynching/violence, 112–113, 116, 119, 123, 125, 152, 157;
and New Negro, 118, 123–126. See also race/racism;
slavery/antislavery
Age of Reason (1794). See Paine, Thomas
Age of Revelation, The (1801). See Boudinot, Elias
AIDS, 175
Alcott, Bronson, 61
Alexander the Great, 9
alienation, 131, 141–145, 155, 164
America: name origins, 7–10, 12
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 36
American Bible Society (ABS), 58
American Birth Control League, 120
American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). See Webster, Noah
American Evasion of Philosophy, The (1989). See West, Cornel
American exceptionalism, 28, 30–31, 102–103, 114, 125, 180
American Historical Association (AHA), 102
American identity, 3, 12, 15–16, 23, 28–29, 45, 52–57, 63–64, 102, 114, 117, 125, 128, 135, 138–139, 163, 174–180
American Philosophical Society, 35–36
American Revolutionary War, 29, 31, 45–50, 53–54, 58, 94
“American Scholar, The” (1837). See Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Amnesty International, 171, 174
anarchism, 119
anthropology, 41, 84, 88, 100, 111–113, 116, 124
antifoundationalism. See philosophy: pragmatism;
postmodernism;
Transcendentalism;
truth claims
antiquity/classical world, 4, 13, 27, 32, 39, 46–47, 69, 93, 99
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 169, 179
Arendt, Hannah, 47, 131, 146–147
Arnold, Matthew, 91
art, 86, 122–125, 128–129, 134, 141, 154, 160–161, 168
Ascent of Ethiopia, The (1932). See Jones, Loïs Mailou
China, 32;
Indonesia, 174;
Japan, 132, 149. See also India;
Vietnam War
Atlantic Monthly, 139
Atlantic Ocean/world, 25, 39, 47. See also transnational/transatlantic
Auden, W. H., 146
Augustine, 13
authenticity, 141–143, 148–150
Autobiography (1791). See Franklin, Benjamin
Barber, Benjamin, 173
Barrett Browning, Elizabeth, 135
Barth, John, 151
Barzun, Jacques, 135
Beach, Sylvia, 122
Beard, Charles, 127
Beecher, Henry Ward, 82
Behemoth (1942). See Neumann, Franz
Bentham, Jeremy, 35, 92, 182–183
Berle, Adolf, Jr., 128
Bhagavad Gita. See Isherwood, Christopher;
Prabhavananda, Swami
Bible. See religion/theology: Bible
Bierstadt, Albert, 86
biology. See natural sciences
Black Boy (1945). See Wright, Richard
Boorstin, Daniel, 138
Booth, Wayne, 171
Boudinot, Elias, 58
Bourne, Randolph, 113–115, 134, 169, 175
brain trust, 127–128. See also New Deal, The
Brecht, Berthold, 130
Browning, Robert, 135
Buckley, William F., Jr., 139
Burnham, Daniel, 99
Butler, Judith, 167
Byron, Lord, 53
Cage, John, 149
Calvin, John, 60. See also religion/theology: Puritans/Calvinism
Campanella, Tommaso, 13
Campbell, Joseph, 146
Canada, 9
capitalism. See economics: capitalism
Capitalism and Freedom (1962). See Milton Friedman
Capra, Fritjof, 149
Carlyle, Thomas, 62
Carroll, John, 42
Carson, Rachel, 154
Carter, Jimmy, 165
Cassirer, Ernst, 130
Catcher in the Rye, The (1951). See J. D. Salinger
Catechismus Logicus (1675). See Increase Mather
Catholicism. See religion/theology: Catholicism
Cato’s Letters (1723), 46
Channing, William Ellery, 60, 66
Charlemagne, 9
Chavez, Cesar, 154
Child, Lydia Maria, 66
Chomsky, Noam, 173
Christian Philosopher, The (1721). See Mather, Cotton
Christianity. See religion/theology
City of Quartz (1990). See Davis, Mike
civil rights. See reform movements;
rights discourse: civil rights
Civil War. See US Civil War
Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order, The (1996). See Huntington, Samuel
Closing of the American Mind, The (1992). See Bloom, Allan
Cold War, The, 131, 133–134, 138–139
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 53, 69
“Collapse of American War Strategy, The” (1917). See Bourne, Randolph
colonialism (US). See Europe/European: colonialism
Columbia University, 37, 113, 115, 128, 142
Columbian Exposition. See World’s Fair (Chicago 1893)
Common Sense (1776). See Paine, Thomas
communism. See economics: communism
Communist Manifesto, The (1848). See Marx, Karl
community, 28, 32, 46, 52, 66, 108–109, 132, 151, 174–179
consensus/conformity, 133, 142, 173
Consequences of Pragmatism (1982). See Rorty, Richard
conservatism, 138–141, 162–163, 170
Conservatism Revisited (1949). See Viereck, Peter
Conservative Mind, The (1953). See Kirk, Russell
Constitution (US), 57;
and Nineteenth Amendment (1920), 118
consumer culture, 3, 90–94, 99, 117–118, 133
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1988). See Rorty, Richard
Cook, Walter W. S., 130
Cosmographiae Introductio (1507). See America: name origins
cosmopolitanism, 68–69, 73, 100, 114, 122, 169, 178
Cotton, John, 25
Coughlin, Charles, 129
Courage to Be, The (1952). See Tillich, Paul
Cousin, Victor, 62
Cuban Missile Crisis, 154
Cullen, Countee, 125
Culture and Anarchy (1869). See Arnold, Matthew
Culture of Narcissism, The (1979). See Lasch, Christopher
culture wars, 164, 170. See also Bloom, Allan
culture/cultural criticism, 3, 59, 73, 89–94, 101–102, 112, 122–125, 131–132, 138–142, 146–147, 154, 156, 163–172;
and pluralism, 101, 111–117, 123–124, 128, 134, 169–170;
and popular, 4–5, 36, 45, 63. See also American identity;
culture wars;
print culture;
Transcendentalism;
Victorian culture;
Volk culture;
women and gender
“Curious Persistence of Rights Talk, The” (1987). See Haskell, Thomas
Custer Died for Your Sins (1969). See Deloria, Vine, Jr.
Dancing Wu Li Masters, The (1979). See Zukav, Gary
Dark Princess (1928). See W. E. B. Du Bois
Dartmouth College, 37
Darwin, Charles, 4, 75–89, 95–97, 103–105, 108, 147. See also evolution/evolutionary theory
de Beauvoir, Simone, 142–144, 157
de Condorcet, Nicolas Marquis, 32, 38
de Crèvecœur, J. Hector St. John, 53
de Man, Paul, 159
de Montaigne, Michel, 14
Declaration of Independence (1776), 4, 45, 57, 64, 153
Declaration of Sentiments (1848), 4
deconstruction. See philosophy: deconstruction
Deleuze, Gilles, 159
Deloria, Vine, Jr., 166
democracy/democratic theory, 1, 5, 51, 55, 63–64, 75–77, 91, 96, 98–99, 102–103, 108–110, 114–115, 117, 132, 135–141, 155–156, 177
Derrida, Jacques, 155, 159, 179
Dewey, John, 97, 104, 107–108, 110, 114–115, 137, 164, 176–177
Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). See Adorno, Theodore;
Horkheimer, Max
Diderot, Denis, 33
Discipline and Punish (1975). See Foucault, Michel
“Dissertation on the Origin of the Native Races of America” (1642). See Grotius, Hugo
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 144
Doctor Faustus (1947). See Mann, Thomas
Dreyfus Affair, 98
Drift and Mastery (1914). See Lippmann, Walter
Dying Speeches of Several Indians, The (1685). See Eliot, John
Eagleton, Terry, 171
Eakins, Thomas, 86
economics, 2, 51, 60, 89, 99, 109, 117–118, 125, 127–128, 131, 155, 175;
and capitalism, 64, 84, 89–91, 98, 108, 129, 131, 138, 142–143, 155–156, 175–176;
and communism, 119, 129, 140–141;
and Keynesian, 155;
and laissez-faire, 85–86, 108, 138, 155–156;
and socialism, 62, 66, 109, 122, 166;
and US Civil War, 67–68. See also industrialization;
New Deal, The
education, 70, 107–108, 113, 119, 134–137. See also institutions: colleges/universities
Einstein, Albert, 130
Eliade, Mircea, 146
Eliot, T. S., 122
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 52, 61–66, 73–74, 94, 124–125, 163–164
empires/imperialism, 7, 9–12, 21, 28, 32–33, 45–48, 53–54, 88–89, 99–100, 140, 143
empiricism. See philosophy: empiricism
Encyclopedia Americana (1829–33). See Lieber, Francis
Encyclopedie (1772). See Diderot, Denis
End of Ideology, The (1960). See Bell, Daniel
End of Racism, The (1995). See D’Souza, Dinesh
Enlightenment, 31–51, 56, 59–60, 67, 139–140, 160
Epic of America, The (1931). See Adams, James Truslow
epistemology, 27, 103–107, 146, 158–164, 166, 176–179. See also truth claims
equality, 5, 39, 46–49, 110, 117–118, 158, 176
Erikson, Erik, 130
Esalen Institute, 149
Essay Concerning Human Understanding, An (1690). See Locke, John
ethnology. See race/racism
Euclid, 41
eugenics. See race/racism: eugenics
Europe/European: and colonialism 9–30, 46–48, 67, 153;
and culture in America, 53–54, 90, 95, 98, 119;
and degenerate image of, 14, 28–29, 54–55, 57, 119;
and expatriates, 4, 122–123, 130–131, 140, 145–147;
and France, 7, 9–10, 14, 22, 24, 32, 45, 122–123, 143, 159–163;
and Germany, 24, 59, 63, 130, 162, 177;
and Great Britain, 7–9, 22, 24, 28–31, 45–50, 55, 59, 90–91;
and race, 88;
and thought (general), 13–15, 19, 22–23, 25, 30–32, 53, 56, 62–63, 67, 95, 114, 119, 139–140, 159–163. See also missionaries
Evolution and Religion (1885). See Beecher, Henry Ward
evolution/evolutionary theory, 75, 78–90, 95–96, 99, 103–105, 108, 111, 119, 149
existentialism. See philosophy: existentialism
expatriates. See Europe/European: expatriates
fascism, 138, 140–141. See also Nazism (National Socialism)
Federalists, 33
Feminine Mystique, The (1963). See Friedan, Betty
feminism, 4, 73, 118, 153, 156–157, 166, 170. See also women and gender
film, 142
First Great Awakening, 27, 32, 58
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 116, 122, 135
flapper, 118
Foucault, Michel, 159–162, 167
Fourier, Charles, 62
Frankenstein (1818). See Shelley, Mary
Franklin, Benjamin, 35–37, 43–44, 58
freedom/liberty, 5, 33, 41–42, 45, 51–52, 58, 63, 76, 95, 114, 117, 125, 129, 139, 145, 151–152, 155–157, 165–171
French and Indian War, 48
French Revolution, 33
Freud, Sigmund, 119, 148, 157, 165
Fuller, Margaret, 61, 72–73, 157
fundamentalism. See conservatism;
religion/theology: fundamentalism
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 138
Gehry, Frank, 161
gender. See women and gender
Gender Trouble (1990). See Butler, Judith
Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, The (1627). See Smith, John
“Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy, The” (1911). See Santayana, George
GI Bill (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act) (1944), 135
Gibbon, Edward, 69
Gift of Black Folk, The (1924). See Du Bois, W. E. B.
Gilded Age, The, 85–86, 92, 109
Gilded Age, The (1873). See Twain, Mark
Ginsberg, Allen, 142
Glenn, John, 154
Gliddon, George, 88
God and Man at Yale (1951). See Buckley, William F.
Godkin, E. L., 94
“Gods, The” (1872). See Ingersoll, Robert
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 63
Graebner, William, 136
Great Depression, 117, 125, 127–131, 134, 153
Great Gatsby, The (1925). See Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Grimké, Angelina, 157
Gropius, Walter, 130
Gross Clinic, The (1875), 86–87
Grotius, Hugo, 23
Gutenberg Galaxy, The (1962). See McLuhan, Marshall
Habermas, Jürgen, 179
Haiti, 45
Hakluyt, Richard, 12
Hancock, John, 36
“Handicapped, The— By One of Them” (1911). See Bourne, Randolph
Harding, Warren G., 119
Harper’s magazine, 139
Harrington, Michael, 154
Harriot, Thomas, 12
Hartz, Louis, 138
Harvard University/College, 25–26, 37, 42, 62, 79, 81, 94, 104, 106, 109, 120, 123, 142, 169
Haskell, Thomas, 171
Haydn, Joseph, 53
Heidegger, Martin, 101, 144, 177
Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 56–57
History of the American Revolution, The (1789). See Ramsay, David
Hobbes, Thomas, 14
Hofstadter, Richard, 138
Hollinger, David, 169
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 64, 104
Holocaust, 131
hooks, bell, 170
Horkheimer, Max, 140
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 133
“Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” (1920). See Pound, Ezra
Hull House (Chicago), 109, 128
human nature and natural law, 13, 22–23, 31, 41, 76, 84–90, 104, 117, 158, 160
human rights. See rights discourse: human rights
Hume, David, 69
Hunger of Memory (1983). See Rodriguez, Richard
Huntington, Samuel, 173
Hurston, Zora Neale, 124
Husserl, Edmund, 144
Hutchinson, Anne, 25
Huxley, Thomas, 147
“I, too, sing America” (1923). See Hughes, Langston
Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge, The (1886). See Fiske, John
identity politics, 164–172, 175–176
Imagined Communities (1983). See Anderson, Benedict
immigration, 51, 84, 109, 111, 113–114, 119–121, 130, 175, 180
imperialism. See empires/imperialism
In My Father’s House (1992). See Appiah, Kwame Anthony
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). See Jacobs, Harriet
Index of American Design, 129
individualism, 28, 61, 102–103, 112, 127, 131, 138–139, 145, 164–166.
industrialization, 51, 67, 90, 108, 118, 129, 143
“Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy, The” (1909). See Dewey, John
institutions, 1, 25, 32, 35–36, 54, 60, 90–91, 94, 109, 132, 134–138, 161–163;
and church/religion, 58, 62, 84, 91, 100, 110, 145–149;
and colleges/universities, 25, 37, 42–43, 59, 62, 79–81, 85, 94, 102, 104–105, 109–110, 112, 130, 135, 146, 159, 162–174;
and libraries, 35–36, 55, 110, 135;
and Metaphysical Club, 104–105;
and parks/landscaping, 92, 99;
and parlors, 93;
and prisons, 161;
and settlement houses, 109. See also slavery/antislavery
intellectual history: definition of, 1–2;
intellectuals: as group, 4–5, 25, 44, 52, 84, 98, 107, 110–111, 113–115, 122–123, 127–132, 134–137, 146–150;
and public engagement, 5, 47, 51, 98, 106, 113;
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, The (1798). See Equiano, Olaudah
Invisible Man (1950). See Ralph Ellison
Irigaray, Luce, 159
Isherwood, Christopher, 147
Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich, 63
Jacobs, Harriet, 72
James, William, 82–83, 94, 101, 104–109, 160, 164, 177, 179
Jamestown, Virginia, 9
Jefferson, Thomas, 33–34, 38, 41–42, 55, 58
Jennings, Samuel, 40
Jihad vs. McWorld (1995). See Barber, Benjamin
John Birch Society, 133
Johnson, Barbara, 171
Johnson, James Weldon, 125
Jones, Loïs Mailou, 126
Joseph and His Brothers (1933-43). See Mann, Thomas
Julian period. See Scaliger, Joseph Justus
Jung, Carl Gustav, 101, 146, 148–150
Kallen, Horace, 123
Kames, Lord, 38
Kennedy, John F., 152
Kennedy, Robert, 152
Kerouac, Jack, 142
Key to the Language of America, A (1643). See Williams, Roger
Keynesian economics. See economics: Keynesian
Kierkegaard, Søren, 144
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 5, 152, 156–158
Klossowski, Pierre, 159
Kruger, Barbara, 168
Kuhn, Thomas, 158–159, 177–178
La Peyrère, Isaac, 13
labor, 2, 90–91, 110, 119, 128, 155. See also economics;
industrialization;
slavery/antislavery
Lama, Dalai, 150
Lang, Fritz, 130
Lasch, Christopher, 164
Last of the Buffalo, The (1888). See Bierstadt, Albert
League of Nations, 119
Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963). See King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Letters from an American Farmer (1782). See De Crèvecœur, J. Hector St. John
Leviathan (1651). See Hobbes, Thomas
Lewis, Wyndham, 122
Liberal Imagination, The (1950). See Trilling, Lionel
liberalism, 137–141, 152, 171, 178–179
liberation. See freedom/liberty
Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences (1792). See Jennings, Samuel
Library of Congress (LOC), 55. See also institutions: libraries
Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, The (1820). See Jefferson, Thomas
“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” (1798). See Wordsworth, William
linguistics/language, 88;
and experience, 155, 160, 163, 167;
and nationalism, 45, 54–55, 63, 136, 176;
and Native Americans, 10, 17–25;
and religion, 26–27, 59–63, 82;
Lippmann, Walter, 109, 117, 135
literature/literary criticism, 3–4, 26–27, 55, 58–63, 68, 85, 117, 138, 141–146, 151, 154–155, 159–160, 171
Locke, John, 27, 30–31, 35, 38, 138
Logick (Logic) Primer, The (1672). See Eliot, John
Lonely Crowd, The (1950). See David Riesman
Long, Huey, 129
Love Poems. See Browning, Robert;
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Lyotard, Jean-François, 159–160
Macdonald, Dwight, 146
MacIntyre, Alasdair, 179
Madison, James, 32
Magnalia Christi Americana (1702). See Mather, Cotton
Manifest Destiny. See westward expansion
Maritain, Jacques, 147
Marx, Karl, 69–70, 98, 119, 131, 144
Marxism. See economics: communism;
Marx, Karl
materialism, 74, 90–94, 98–99, 117, 133
Maurras, Charles, 98
McCarran Internal Security Act, 133
McCarthy, Joseph, 133
McCarthy, Mary, 138
McCord, Louisa S., 70
McKay, Claude, 125
McLuhan, Marshall, 154–155, 160, 175
Melville, Herman, 65
Merton, Thomas, 149
Mexican-American War, 153
Mills, C. Wright, 142
Miscellanies, moral and instructive (1787). See Moore, Milcah Martha
missionaries (Christian), 9–10, 13–14, 18–26, 32, 51, 59
Missouri Compromise (1820), 67
“Modell of Christian Charity” (1630). See Winthrop, John
Modern Age, 139
modernity, 52, 60, 68, 86–87, 90–91, 97, 107–109, 117–120, 143, 145
Moley, Raymond, 128
Montesquieu, 38
Moore, Marianne, 146
Moravian College, 37
Mounier, Emmanuel, 147
Moynihan, Patrick, 138
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 53
Murphy, Michael, 149
Murray, Judith Sargent, 32–33, 39
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845). See Douglass, Frederick
Nation, The, 94
National Review, 139
nationalism, 45, 56–57, 128, 131, 174–176
Native Americans, 3, 29, 42, 51, 57, 66, 74, 88, 165–166;
and civilization, 11, 13–25, 114;
Native Son (1940). See Wright, Richard
natural law. See human nature and natural law
natural sciences, 11, 15, 78–80, 104, 128, 167, 169–170
natural selection. See evolution/evolutionary theory
Nazism (National Socialism), 130–131, 138, 140
“Negro-Mania” (1852). See McCord, Louisa S.
neoliberalism, 173
New Deal, The, 125, 127–131, 136, 138
New Negro, The (1925). See Locke, Alain
New York Magazine, 164
New York Times, 177
New York University, 130
Newton, Isaac, 27
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 98, 119, 144, 162, 167, 177
9/11, 179
North America/New World, 4, 9–30, 67, 99
Notes on the State of Virginia (1781). See Jefferson, Thomas
Nott, Josiah, 88
Nussbaum, Martha, 179
Oakeshott, Michael, 180
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 92, 99
“On Cannibals” (1580). See de Montaigne, Michel
“On the Equality of the Sexes” (1790). See Murray, Judith Sargent
On the Origin of Species (1859). See Darwin, Charles
One Dimensional Man (1964). See Marcuse, Herbert
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962). See Kesey, Ken
Opticks (1704). See Newton, Isaac
Opus de emendation temporum (1583). See Scaliger, Joseph Justus
Other America, The (1962). See Harrington, Michael
Otis, James, 39
Outsider, The (1953). See Wright, Richard
Parker, Theodore, 61
Peabody, Elizabeth Parker, 61, 66
Pearl Harbor, 132
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 104–105
Perennial Philosophy, The (1945). See Huxley, Aldous
Perkins, Frances, 128
phantasmagoria, 36
philosophy, 1, 3, 15, 26–27, 32, 63–64, 94, 101, 103–107, 135, 137, 142–149, 163, 169, 176–177;
and deconstruction, 155, 159–160, 171;
and empiricism, 30, 104–106, 112;
and pragmatism, 97, 103–110, 114–115, 123, 137, 147, 163–164, 176–179. See also Europe/European: thought (general);
postmodernism
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979). See Rorty, Richard
physics, 112
Pirsig, Robert, 155
Pivot of Civilization, The (1922). See Sanger, Margaret
pluralism/multiculturalism. See culture/cultural criticism: pluralism
Poe, Edgar Allan, 143
“Poet, The” (1844). See Emerson, Ralph Waldo
poetry, 2, 32, 39, 62, 65, 101, 117, 122–125, 142, 166. See also Hughes, Langston;
Whitman, Walt
Poetry (magazine), 122
political theory, 2, 30, 32, 46–50, 84, 131, 137–141, 156, 175–179
polygenesis. See evolution/evolutionary theory
“Port Huron Statement, The” (1962). See Students for a Democratic Society, The (SDS)
postcolonialism, 4
Postmodern Condition, The (1979). See Lyotard, Jean-François
postmodernism, 151, 159–171, 179
Pound, Ezra, 122
power: human agency, 52, 115, 137, 160–162, 167;
language, 5, 160, 167. See also empires/imperialism
Power Elite, The (1956). See Mills, C. Wright
Prabhavananda, Swami, 147
Prae-Adamitae (1655). See La Peyrère, Isaac
pragmatism. See philosophy: pragmatism
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907). See James, William
Price, Dick, 149
Princeton University, 37, 81, 163
Principia (1687). See Newton, Isaac
Principles of Psychology, The (1890). See James, William
print culture, 18–19, 46, 48, 53–59, 94, 110, 134–136, 139, 154–155, 175. See also republic of letters
Profit Over People (1999). See Chomsky, Noam
progressivism/Progressive movement, 100, 103, 108–115, 124, 128, 136, 138, 156, 164
Prophet, The (1923). See Gibran, Kahlil
psychology/psychiatry, 1, 84, 105, 107, 112, 119, 131, 146, 148–149, 157, 160–161, 165
Ptolemy, 7
Pufendorf, Samuel von, 32
Puritans. See religion/theology: Puritans/Calvinism
Quakers. See religion/theology: Quakers
Quest for Certainty, The (1929). See Dewey, John
race/racism, 39–44, 51, 67–77, 88–89, 99–100, 108, 111–114, 116–117, 123–125, 132–133, 143–145, 155–157, 165–171;
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 12
Ramsay, David, 54
Reagan, Ronald, 28
Red Record, A (1895). See Wells, Ida B.
Red Scare. See anticommunism
reform movements, 52, 59, 62, 85, 108–109, 152–158, 166–167. See also New Deal, The;
progressivism/Progressive movement
Reich, Wilhelm, 130
relativism. See truth claims
religion/theology, 2, 15, 45, 58, 105–107, 146–151, 166, 180;
and the Bible, 4, 13, 18–19, 22, 29, 33–34, 38, 49, 57–62, 71, 81, 83, 85, 88, 93;
and Buddhism, 4–5, 100–101, 146–150, 155;
and Catholicism, 18–19, 22–23, 42, 119, 129, 147;
and Christian socialism, 109, 147;
and Congregationalist, 60–61, 82;
and creation theory/evolution, 79–84, 88;
and crises of faith or authority, 15, 30, 59, 131, 143, 145–146;
and deism, 58;
and diversity/ecumenicism, 100–101, 105–106, 146–148, 163;
and Enlightenment, 32–33, 59–60;
and fundamentalism, 119;
and Greek Orthodox, 100;
and Hinduism, 147;
and Jesus Christ, 13, 19, 33, 62, 66;
and Judaism, 100, 119, 124, 130, 146–147;
and liberal, 81–82, 108–109, 137;
and pantheism, 63;
and Presbyterian, 81, 83, 113;
and Puritans/Calvinism, 9, 18–28, 32, 60–61, 82, 94;
and Quakers (Society of Friends), 9, 24, 39, 44;
and social gospel, 109;
and Taoism, 147;
and Zoroastrianism, 100. See also First Great Awakening;
institutions: church/religion;
missionaries;
Second Great Awakening;
slavery/antislavery;
Transcendentalism
Republic (380 BC). See Plato
republic of letters, 31–50, 67
republicanism/republic, 45–51, 58, 67, 72, 76, 164
Revolt against Civilization, The (1922). See Stoddard, Lothrop
revolutions, 45, 47, 51–52, 73, 103–104, 151, 153;
and Bolshevik Revolution, 119. See also American Revolutionary War;
French Revolution
Riesman, David, 142
rights discourse: civil rights, 146, 152, 155–158, 171;
natural rights, 30, 47. See also feminism;
women and gender
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The” (1834). See Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Rising Tide of Color against White World-Supremacy, The (1920). See Stoddard, Lothrop
Roaring Twenties, 117
Robinson, Jackie, 154
Rock, Chris, 170
Rodriguez, Richard, 175
romanticism, 51, 56–57, 61, 63, 67–68, 72, 76, 86, 94
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 127–129, 131–132, 135
Ross, Edward A., 111
Runaway World (1999). See Gidden, Anthony
Russell, Bertrand, 122
Said, Edward, 171
Salinger, J. D., 141
Sanger, Margaret, 120
Scaliger, Joseph Justus, 13
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph, 63
Schiller, Friedrich, 53
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 63
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 141, 165
Schoenberg, Arnold, 130
Schomburg, Arthur, 126
science, 11–12, 15, 26–27, 40, 60, 78–88, 100, 104–108, 112, 117, 120, 127, 136–137, 141, 147, 149, 151, 158–159, 177–178
Scopes “Monkey” Trial, 119
Second Great Awakening, 52
Second Sex, The (1949). See de Beauvoir, Simone
Second Treatise of Government (1689). See Locke, John
secular humanism, 84, 110, 137, 140, 180. See also Enlightenment
“Self-Reliance” (1841). See Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Seven Arts, 115
sexual mores, 117, 119–120, 148, 157, 166–167. See also women and gender
Shaw, George Bernard, 122
Shelley, Mary, 135
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 62
Significance of the Frontier in American History, The (1893). See Turner, Frederick Jackson
Silent Spring (1962). See Carson, Rachel
Silone, Ignazio, 147
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (1741). See Edwards, Jonathan
slavery/antislavery, 1, 25, 38–44, 52, 66–96, 112, 126, 129
Smith, Adam, 138
Snow, C. P., 136
Snyder, Gary, 149
Social Darwinism. See evolution/evolutionary theory
Social Gospel. See religion/theology: social gospel
social theory, 3, 38, 84–90, 107–111, 131, 151, 154, 160–162;
and social sciences, 100, 128, 130
socialism. See economics: socialism
sociology, 1, 69, 84–85, 89, 98, 111, 131, 138, 142
Sociology for the South (1854). See Fitzhugh, George
Stanford University, 149
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 4, 157
Starr, Ellen Gates, 109
Stein, Gertrude, 122
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 82
Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The (1962). See Kuhn, Thomas
Students for a Democratic Society, The (SDS), 155–156
suburbanization, 118, 131–133, 156
Suzuki, D. T. (Daisetsu Teitaro), 4, 100–101, 149
Suzuki, Shunryu, 146
Tao of Physics, The (1975). See Capra, Fritjof
Taylor, Charles, 179
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). See Hurston, Zora Neale
Theory of the Leisure Class, The (1899). See Veblen, Thorstein
Third Great Awakening, 165
This Side of Paradise (1920). See Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Thoreau, Henry David, 5, 61, 63, 66, 73, 95–96
Through Nature to God (1899). See Fiske, John
Thurman, Howard, 146
Tillich, Paul, 130–131, 146, 150
totalitarianism, 117, 130–131, 138, 140
“Trans-National America” (1916). See Bourne, Randolph
Transcendentalism, 52, 61–74, 94–95, 103, 164
transnational/transatlantic, 4, 30–50, 53, 62–64, 67, 73, 87, 138, 143–144, 159–163, 172–176
Trilling, Lionel, 134–135, 140
“Trotsky and the Wild Orchids” (1992). See Rorty, Richard
truth claims, 103, 105–107, 112, 123–124, 137, 147–148, 158–171, 177–180. See also philosophy: pragmatism;
postmodernism;
Transcendentalism
Tugwell, Rexford G., 128
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 102–103, 127
“Twilight of Idols” (1917). See Bourne, Randolph
“Two Cultures, The” (1959). See Snow, C. P.
University of California-Berkeley, 169
University of Chicago, 107, 146, 155, 162
University of Georgia, 37
University of North Carolina, 37
University of Pennsylvania, 37
University of South Carolina, 37
University of Virginia, 151
Untitled (You Are Not Yourself) (1981). See Kruger, Barbara
urbanization, 51, 84, 92, 109, 118, 176
US Civil War, 43, 59, 67–68, 75–77, 95–97, 112
US Foreign Policy (1943). See Lippmann, Walter
Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). See James, William
Vaughan, Robert, 16
Victoria, Queen, 90. See also Victorian culture
Victorian culture, 26, 90–95, 99–100, 112–113, 122
Vincent, John Heyl, 91
Voegelin, Eric, 130
Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil (1920). See Du Bois, W. E. B.
Voltaire, 32
Wadsworth, Benjamin, 42
Waldseemüller, Martin, 8, 12, 180
“War and the Intellectuals” (1917). See Bourne, Randolph
War of 1812, 55
Warhol, Andy, 154
Watts, Alan, 101
Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A (1849). See Thoreau, Henry David
Wells, H.G., 122
West, The, 4, 31, 39, 101–102, 125, 136, 143, 149, 163, 169
westward expansion, 51, 59, 91, 102
What Is Darwinism? (1874). See Hodge, Charles
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883). See Sumner, William Graham
White Collar (1951). See Mills, C. Wright
White, John, 16
Whitefield, George, 58
Whitney, Eli, 68
Wilde, Oscar, 98
Wilhelm Tell (1804). See Schiller, Friedrich
“Will to Believe, The” (1896). See James, William
William and Mary College/ College of William and Mary, 43
Williams, Roger, 23
Wolfe, Tom, 164
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845). See Fuller, Margaret
women and gender, 37–39, 46, 66, 70, 72–74, 92–94, 109–110, 117–118, 120, 152–153, 156–157, 165–170, 175;
Women and the New Race (1920). See Sanger, Margaret
Wordsworth, William, 62, 68–69
Work Projects Administration (WPA), 128
World War I, 113–115, 117–119, 122, 128, 132
World War II, 117, 130–136, 138–139, 143, 145, 155;
and Armed Services books, 4, 135
World’s Fair (Chicago, 1893), 99–103
World’s Parliament of Religions, 100–101
Wright, Chauncey, 104
X, Malcolm, 152
Zangwill, Israel, 111
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974). See Pirsig, Robert
Zen Buddhism. See religion/theology: Buddhism
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (1970). See Suzuki, Shunryu
Zionism, 124
Zola, Émile, 98
Zukav, Gary, 149