Topics (* indicates the article is not available in the Sourcebook)

1. The role of the intellectual in American life

2. Darwin and Evolution

a. Charles Darwin

3. Social Darwinism

a. Herbert Spencer*

b. William Graham Sumner

4. Pragmatism/Progressivism

a. Charles Peirce

b. John Dewey

c. William James

d. Oliver Wendell Holmes

e. Thorstein Veblen

f. Frederick Jackson Turner

5. Middle Class Critics

a. Lester Frank Ward

b. Henry Demorest Lloyd*

c. Herbert Croly*

d. Jane Addams

e. Walter Rauschenbush*

6. Cultural Conservatism-Southern response (1920’s)

a. John Crowe Ransom

b. Donald Davidson, Attack on Leviathan*

c. The Agrarians, I’ll Take My Stand*

7. Laissez Faire/Libertarianism/Conservatism

a. Max Weber*

b. Milton Freedman*

c. Ayn Rand*

d. Reinhold Neibuhr

e. Daniel Bell

f. Daniel Boorstin

8. Liberalism/Socialism/Modernism

a. David Lilianthal

b. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr, The Vital Center*

c. Michael Harrington*

d. John Kenneth Galbraith*

e. Gunner Myrdall

f. Margaret Mead

g. C. Wright Mills

h. Port Huron Statement

i. W.W. Rostow

j. Noam Chomsky

9. Communism

a. Sidney Hook

10. Neoconservatism

a. Irving Kristal*

b. Paul Wolfowitz

11. Race issues and the Role of African Americans

a. Booker T. Washington

b. W.E.B. DuBois

c. Martin Luther King

d. Malcolm X

e. Kwame Anthony Appiah

12. Gender Issues and the Role of Women

a. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

c. Jane Addams

d. Betty Friedan

e. Nancy Chodorow

f. Judith Butler

13. Multiculturalism

a. John Higham*