GOVT 4585

GOVT 4585

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This seminar will provide a survey of the history of American political thought, with emphasis placed on four significant periods: Puritan New England, the Revolution and Founding, Abolition and Civil War, and the Progressive Era.  Authors read may include: Winthrop, Hutchinson, Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, Madison, Warren, Tocqueville, Fitzhugh, Calhoun, Douglas, Garrison, Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, Lincoln, Adams, DuBois, Goldman, Dewey, Lippmann, Taylor, and Bourne.

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (HA-AS)
Course Subfield (PT)

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4585

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16488 GOVT 4585   SEM 180

  • Taught in Washington, DC.