American Heritage Series

Series · 41

books · 1953-2006

By Moses Rischin, William F. Buckley Jr., Harold L. Nelson, and more

Books in series

Social Theories of Jacksonian Democracy

Representative Writings of the Period 1825-1850

2003

Book by Joseph L. Blau

Common Sense and Other Political Writing

1953

Excerpts from 4 of this 18th century firebrand's major works including Rights of Man and The American Crisis

From the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution

1954

Forum Books No. 3

#24

The Forging of American Socialism

1953

Preface A Note on the 2nd Edition I Marxism Comes to America II Failure of Boring from Within III Bellamy Makes Socialism Respectable IV The Christian Socialist Crusade V DeLeon Molds the Socialist Labor Party VI Wayland Plants Grass Roots Socialism VII Socialism Faces Populism VIII Non-Partisan Socialism IX The Communitarians' Last Stand X American Socialism Comes of Age XI Socialist Unity Achieved Bibliographical Essay Index

#26

Late Nineteenth-Century American Liberalism

Representative Selections, 1880-1900

1962

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

#31

Theories of education in early America, 1655-1819

1973

Theories of Education in Early America, 1655-1819 (The American heritage series)

#33

Puritan Political Ideas, 1558-1794

1965

In this unique collection, noted historian Edmund Morgan focuses upon three ideas that lay at the root of Puritan political theory and have had a continuing significance in our history: calling, covenant, and the separate spheres of church and state. The selections show the origin of these ideas in the writings of the early English Puritans before the colonization of America, in seventeenth century New England, and finally in new contexts in the eighteenth century. One may read these documents as primary sources of Puritan thought per se, as sources of American intellectual history, or as sources of a political theory that flowered in the early years of the new constitutional republic. —from the Foreword

#34

The Great Awakening

Documents Illustrating the Crisis and Its Consequences

1967

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-library, otherwise good.

#38

The Antifederalists

1966

#39

Mind of the Founder

Sources of the Political Thought of James Madison

1972

In one handy volume, scholars, students, and general readers alike have an authentic and responsible selection of Madison's writings. The wide range of material shows the development of a major political thinker over more than half a century as he encounters successfully the provocative questions of American political life from the Revolution and making of the Constitution to the sectional crisis over slavery. Introduction, headnotes, bibliography, and index have all been revised for this edition, especially welcome as the Constitutional bicentennial approaches.

#41

Freedom of the Press from Zenger to Jefferson

Reprint with new introduction and updated bibliography

1966

An anthology of classic American statements on freedom of the press and a documentary defense of the author's ideas which enables the reader to weigh the intent of the drafters of the first amendment.

#44

The Antislavery Argument

1965

#46

The Political Thought of Abraham Lincoln

1967

#47

Radical Republicans and Reconstruction, 1861-1870

1967

#48

Manifest Destiny

1968

Very light rubbing, faint smudge back cover, few tiny spots page edge, o/w tight and clean.

#50

Social and Political Thought of American Progressivism

2006

Through a variety of primary sources—including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts—this collection illustrates the origins, ambitions, and political legacy of the American Progressivism movement (1886–1924). A general introduction offers a history of the movement and a brief discussion of recent historiographical debates; headnotes introduce each selection and provide historical and political context.

#50

The Populist Mind

1967

Book by

#52

William Jennings Bryan

Selections

1967

#54

The Progressives

1967

An important book on the Progressive Era.

#56

Negro Protest Thought in the Twentieth Century.

1965

#58

American Catholic Thought on Social Questions

1968

#60

Nonviolence in America

A Documentary History

1966

Nonviolence in America is a comprehensive compilation of first-hand sources that document the history of nonviolence in the United States from colonial times to the present. Editors Staughton and Alice Lynd bring together materials from diverse sources that illuminate a movement in American history that is sometimes assumed to have begun and ended with the anti-nuclear and civil rights struggles of the '50s and '60s but which is, in fact, older than the Republic itself. This revised and expanded edition of Nonviolence in America opens with writings of William Penn and John Woolman, of abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and Henry David Thoreau, and of anarchists Emma Goldman and William Haywood. It continues with testimonies of suffragettes and conscientious objectors of both World Wars, trade unionists and anti-nuclear activists. It includes classics such as Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," William James' "The Moral Equivalent of War," and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham City Jail." Bringing Nonviolence in America right up to the present are writings on the Vietnam and Persian Gulf Wars, and the continuing struggles against nuclear power plants and weaponry and for preservation of the Earth and its peoples.

#61

Church and the City

1865-1910

1967

#63

The American Writer and the Great Depression

1966

Literary Anthology.

#64

The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin

1965

Too often dismissed as the least philosophic of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin had a deep and lasting impact on the shape of American political thought. In this substantial collection of Franklin’s letters, essays, and lesser-known papers, Ralph Ketcham traces the development of Franklin’s practical–and distinctly American–political thought from his earliest Silence Dogood essays to his final writings on the Constitution and The Evils of the Slave Trade.

#65

The Government and the Economy, 1783-1861

1967

#68

The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson

1966

#69

The Social Thought of Jane Addams

1965

Book by Jane Addams

#70

New Deal Thought

1966

A reprint of the 1966 Bobbs-Merrill edition. This anthology assembles the contemporary writings not only of the New Dealers—the men who devised and executed the programs of the government in the era of Franklin D. Roosevelt—but also of the "social critics" who "gathered in various stances and at various distances around the Roosevelt fires." Here is a sampling of the famous movers and shakers of the 1930's: Thurman Arnold, Henry Wallace, Rexford Tugwell, David Lilienthal, Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, John Maynard Keynes, and of course Roosevelt himself. Here too are the voices of those who thought the New Dealers were going "too far" such as Walter Lippmann and Raymond Moley, and of those who thought they were not going "far enough"; like John Dewey, W. E. B. DuBois, Norman Thomas, Lewis Mumford, and Carey McWilliams. In his Introduction Howard Zinn defines the boundaries of the New Deal's experimentalism and attempts to explain why it sputtered out. The result is a book that captures the spirit of the New Deal—hopeful, pragmatic, humane—yet remains hardheaded about its accomplishments and failures.

#71

Agricultural Thought in the Twentieth Century

1967

from the front jacket... photo attached. Original price was $7.50 in 1967 5 years before McGovern ran for President. Changes so vast that Senator McGovern can call them a "revolution" have reshaped American agriculture during the course of the 20th century. A smaller and smaller percentage of our population is earning its living by the soil — 38 percent in 1900, less than 8 percent in 1965 — yet our technological advances have brought about a productivity that allows Americans to be better fed, while devoting a smaller part of their income to food, than any other people in the history of mankind. Why, then, in the face of this unparalleled abundance is the "farm problem": still one of the most frustrating and persistent questions to plague our economy? How are we to regard the paradoxes with which it presents us - not the least of which is our "problem" of surpluses" at a time when half of the world is hungry? In light of these questions, it is not at all surprising that American agriculture has been examined, evaluated, analyzed and debated as such length in our century. The documents Sen McGovern have assembled reflect the range of thought that has been trained on the farm problem and the policies with which, over the course of six decades, the gov't has attempted to deal with it. What the problem is, and how it is to be solved, varies depending on who is looking at it, and when, therefore the range of documents on this subjects is wide: addresses of American Presidents & Sec. of Agric. ; reports of congressional hearings and presidential commissions; statements from authorities in the fields of agriculture, economy and conservation; speeches by leaders of the organizations by which farmers have tried to help themselves. Sen. McGovern's knowledgeable introduction and head notes, supplemented by a bibliography and a chronology, provide the reader with further background focus, helping make the writings he has collected an illuminating record of our attempt come to terms with our own plenty. ...A volume in the American Heritage Series. (less)

#72

The Supreme Court

Law and Discretion

1967

#74

Freedom of the Press from Hamilton to the Warren Court

1967

#75

American Military Thought

1966

#77

The South Since Reconstruction

1973

#78

American Labor

The Twentieth Century

1969

215' written on the front cover. Cover is lightly yellowing with a few creases. Some text is underlined in blue biro. Pages are in good clean condition.

#79

Immigration and the American tradition

1976

#82

Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century

1970

#83

The Culture of the Twenties

1920-1929

1970

Like a prairie-fire, the blaze of revolution was sweeping over every American institution of law and order a year ago." — A. Palmer Mitchell The most hopeful thing of intellectual promise in America to-day is the contempt of younger people for their elders." — John F. Carter, Jr. New ideas? Perhaps. They're part of the phenomenon known as "The Twenties"—the boisterous period in American history that produced the Charleston and Charles Lindbergh, surrealistic art and gangland -style murder. It was a period of upheaval, of fundamental change in American life. And, as in the sixties, there was an extraordinary people-involvement in politics, business, religion, the arts, and in living. In Loren Baritz's perceptive and entertaining anthology, the authors, politicians, preachers, and eccentrics from this troubled but vigorous period speak for themselves. From Walter Lippmann to Anita Loos, from Bartolomeo Vanzetti to Joseph Wood Krutch, from Herbert Hoover to F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . here are the voices of the fools and the heroes of a wanton but innocent era which, in retrospect, seems to have been a preview. In addition to bringing a past decade back to boisterous life, however, this collection reveals the roots of many of today's most hotly debated issues. For the twenties did not settle problems and disagreements concerning the human spirit versus technology, flag waving patriotism versus international responsibility, puritanical inhibition versus flapper freedom, and many other conflicts of the spirit and mind. Rather, men in the twenties first squarely faced such questions and, as Baritz says, by doing so, "staggered into modernity."

#84

Contemporary American Protestant Thought

1900 1970

1973

Thorough anthology of Protestant thought from the Progressive through the Post-modern era.

#89

Black Nationalism in America

1970

Part of The American Heritage Series.

#90

The Female Experience

An American Documentary

1977

While women's experience encompasses all that is human, while women have participated in history and the making of history through all time, until very recently they have been largely excluded from the writing of that history. Most of what we know of the past experience of women comes to us largely through the distorting lens of men's reflections and observations. In the now classic The Female Experience, Gerda Lerner describes history as seen by women, as colored by their values. What she creates is fascinating narrative of the lives and history of ordinary women, a book that provides a new framework for the study of their past experience. If women's history is now a healthy and ever-growing discipline, we have in a large part this award-winning author to thank. Avoiding the traditional chronological periods by which U.S. history is most often studied, Lerner groups her sources—many taken from manuscripts previously unknown, and others only available in research libraries—according to the lifecycle of women, their roles in a male-defined society, in the workplace, in politics, and finally in the contemporary world where feminism is creating an altogether new consciousness. From "runaway wives" in eighteenth-century America, through an anonymous account of a mother's death during childbirth, to appeals in our century for freedom of sexual preference, The Female Experience recounts history from the woman's point of view, and goes a long way toward reconstructing a female past and analyzing it with appropriate concepts. In the general introduction and chapter essays Lerner offers commentary that not only knits these disparate primary sources together, but also interprets them in an innovative way. Now brought up to date with a new preface, The Female Experience is a book that pulses with life, a stunning testament not only to the long-ignored role of women in society, but a pioneering effort to reinvent the way we look at history.

Authors

Moses Rischin

Author · 2 books

William F. Buckley Jr.

Author · 48 books

William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American author and conservative commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing style was famed for its erudition, wit, and use of uncommon words. Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century," according to George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement. "For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary intellectual achievement was to fuse traditional American political conservatism with economic libertarianism and anti-communism, laying the groundwork for the modern American conservatism of US Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and US President Ronald Reagan. Buckley came on the public scene with his critical book God and Man at Yale (1951); among over fifty further books on writing, speaking, history, politics and sailing, were a series of novels featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes. Buckley referred to himself "on and off" as either libertarian or conservative. He resided in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut, and often signed his name as "WFB." He was a practicing Catholic, regularly attending the traditional Latin Mass in Connecticut.

Gerda Lerner was a historian, author and teacher. She was a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a visiting scholar at Duke University. Lerner was one of the founders of the field of women's history, and was a former president of the Organization of American Historians. She played a key role in the development of women's history curricula. She taught what is considered to be the first women's history course in the world at the New School for Social Research in 1963. She was also involved in the development of similar programs at Long Island University (1965–1967), at Sarah Lawrence College from 1968 to 1979 (where she established the nation's first Women's History graduate program), at Columbia University (where she was a co-founder of the Seminar on Women), and from 1980 until her retirement as Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. (from Wikipedia)

William Jennings Bryan

Author · 1 books

William Jennings Bryan was the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, 1900 and 1908, a lawyer, and the 41st United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson. One of the most popular speakers in American history, he was noted for a deep, commanding voice. Bryan was a devout Presbyterian, a supporter of popular democracy, a critic of banks and railroads, a leader of the silverite movement in the 1890s, a leading figure in the Democratic Party, a peace advocate, a prohibitionist, an opponent of Darwinism, and one of the most prominent leaders of populism in the late 19th - and early 20th century. Because of his faith in the goodness and rightness of the common people, he was called "The Great Commoner." In the intensely fought 1896 and 1900 elections, he was defeated by William McKinley but retained control of the Democratic Party. For presidential candidates, Bryan invented the national stumping tour. In his three presidential bids, he promoted Free Silver in 1896, anti-imperialism in 1900, and trust-busting in 1908, calling on Democrats, in cases where corporations are protected, to abandon states' rights, to fight the trusts and big banks, and embrace populist ideas. President Woodrow Wilson appointed him Secretary of State in 1913, but Wilson's handling of the Lusitania crisis in 1915 caused Bryan to resign in protest. He was a strong supporter of Prohibition in the 1920s, and energetically attacked Darwinism and evolution, most famously at the Scopes Trial in 1925. Five days after winning the case but getting bad press, he died in his sleep.

Leonard Williams Levy was the Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor of Humanities and Chairman of the Graduate Faculty of History at Claremont Graduate School, California. He was educated at Columbia University, where his mentor for the Ph.D. degree was Henry Steele Commager. Levy's most honored book was his 1968 study Origins of the Fifth Amendment, focusing on the history of the privilege against self-incrimination. This book was awarded the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History. He wrote almost forty other books. In 1990, Levy was appointed a Distinguished Scholar in Residence; Adjunct Professor of History and Political Science at Southern Oregon State College in Ashland, Oregon.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the twenty-eighth President of the United States. A devout Presbyterian and leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University and then became the Governor of New Jersey in 1910. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. He proved highly successful in leading a Democratic Congress to pass major legislation that included the Federal Trade Commission, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Underwood Tariff, the Federal Farm Loan Act and most notably the Federal Reserve System. Wilson was a proponent of segregation during his presidency. Narrowly re-elected in 1916, his second term centered on World War I. He tried to maintain U.S. neutrality, but when the German Empire began unrestricted submarine warfare he wrote several admonishing notes to Germany, and eventually asked Congress to declare war on the Central Powers. He focused on diplomacy and financial considerations, leaving the waging of the war primarily in the hands of the military establishment. On the home front he began the first effective draft in 1917, raised billions through Liberty loans, imposed an income tax, set up the War Industries Board, promoted labor union growth, supervised agriculture and food production through the Lever Act, took over control of the railroads, and suppressed anti-war movements. He paid surprisingly little attention to military affairs, but provided the funding and food supplies that helped the Americans in the war and hastened Allied victory in 1918. In the late stages of the war he took personal control of negotiations with Germany, especially with the Fourteen Points and the armistice. He went to Paris in 1919 to create the League of Nations and shape the Treaty of Versailles, with special attention on creating new nations out of defunct empires. Largely for his efforts to form the League, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. Wilson collapsed with a debilitating stroke in 1919, as the home front saw massive strikes and race riots, and wartime prosperity turn into postwar depression. He refused to compromise with the Republicans who controlled Congress after 1918, effectively destroying any chance for ratification of the Versailles Treaty. The League of Nations was established anyway, but the U.S. never joined. Wilson's idealistic internationalism, calling for the U.S. to enter the world arena to fight for democracy, progressiveness, and liberalism, has been a highly controversial position in American foreign policy, serving as a model for "idealists" to emulate or "realists" to reject for the following century.

The son of renowned sociologists Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Lynd, Staughton Lynd grew up in New York City. He earned a BA from Harvard, an MA and PhD in history from Columbia. He taught at Spelman College in Georgia (where he was acquainted with Howard Zinn) and Yale University. In 1964, Lynd served as director of Freedom Schools in the Mississippi Summer Project. An opponent of the Vietnam War, Lynd chaired the first march against the war in Washington DC in 1965 and, along with Tom Hayden and Herbert Aptheker, went on a controversial trip to Hanoi in December 1965 that cost him his position at Yale. In the late 1960s Lynd moved to Chicago, where he was involved in community organizing. An oral history project of the working class undertaken with his wife inspired Lynd to earn a JD from the University of Chicago in 1976. After graduating the Lynds moved to Ohio, where Staughton worked as an attorney and activist.

Cecelia Kenyon was Charles N. Clark Professor of Government emerita at Smith College, where she taught from 1948 until her retirement in 1984. A native of Gainesville, Georgia, Kenyon was a graduate of Oberlin College and earned her master's and doctorate degrees from Radcliffe.

American social reformer and pacifist Jane Addams in 1889 founded Hull house, a care and education center for the poor of Chicago, and in 1931 shared the Nobel Prize for peace. Her mother died when she was two years old in 1862, and her father and later a stepmother reared her. She graduated from Rockford female seminary in 1881, among the first students to take a course of study equivalent to that of men at other institutions. Her father, whom she admired tremendously, died in that same year, 1881. Jane Addams attended medical college of woman in Pennsylvania but, probably due to her ill health and chronic back pain, left. She toured Europe from 1883 to 1885 and then lived in Baltimore until 1887 but figure out not what she wanted with her education and skills. In 1888, on a visit to England with her Rockford classmate Ellen Gates Starr, Jane Addams visited Toynbee Settlement Hall and London's East End. Jane Addams and Ellen Starr planned to start an American equivalent of that settlement house. After their return they chose Hull mansion, a building which had, though originally built at the edge of the city, become surrounded by an immigrant neighborhood and had been used as a warehouse. Using an experimental model of reform—trying solutions to see what would work—and committed to full- and part-time residents to keep in touch with the neighborhood's real needs, Jane Addams built Hull-House into an institution known worldwide. Addams wrote articles, lectured widely and did most of the fund-raising personally and served on many social work, social welfare and settlement house boards and commissions. Jane Addams also became involved in wider efforts for social reform, including housing and sanitation issues, factory inspection, rights of immigrants, women and children, pacifism and the 8-hour day. She served as a Vice President of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1911-1914. In 1912, Jane Addams campaigned for the Progressive Party and its presidential candidate, Teddy Roosevelt. She worked with the Peace Party, helped found and served as president (1919-1935) of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In 1931 Jane Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Nicholas Murray Butler, but her health was too fragile to attend the European ceremonies to accept the prize. She was the second woman to be awarded that honor. By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com

Harvey Swados

Author · 5 books

Harvey Swados was an American social critic and author of novels, short stories, essays and journalism.

Norman A. Graebner

Author · 2 books

A specialist in American diplomatic history, Norman Graebner was professor emeritus of history at the University of Virginia, where he taught from 1967 until his retirement in 1986.

Benjamin Franklin

Author · 38 books