HIST 2655

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HIST 2655
American Political Thought

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

This course offers a survey of American political thought from the colonial period to the present. We will read Puritan sermons, revolutionary pamphlets, philosophical treatises, presidential orations, slave narratives, prison writings, and other classic texts, in order to understand the ideas and debates that have shaped American politics. Topics to be discussed will include the meaning of freedom, the relationship between natural rights and constitutional authority, the idea of popular sovereignty, theories of representation and state power, race and national identity, problems of inequality, and the place of religion in public life. Lectures will be organized around both historical context and close reading of primary texts.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (HST-AS) (HA-AG)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2669, GOVT 2665

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20755 HIST 2655   LEC 001

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    • MW Uris Hall 202
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Livingston, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 20756 HIST 2655   DIS 201

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 20757 HIST 2655   DIS 202

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    • M White Hall B02
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 20758 HIST 2655   DIS 203

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    • W Uris Hall G22
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 20759 HIST 2655   DIS 204

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    • F White Hall B04
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person