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The American mind, Allen C. Guelzo

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The American mind

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Allen C. Guelzo

The great courses

A broad survey of American intellectual history ; a history of the ideas, the thinkers and the institutions that have mattered most to Americans. Each of the 36 lectures is 30 minutes long

Lecture 1. The intellectual geography of America -- lecture 2. The technology of Puritan thinking -- lecture 3. The Enlightenment in America -- lecture 4. Jonathan Edwards and the great awakening -- lecture 5. The colonial colleges -- lecture 6. Republican fundamentals -- lecture 7. Nature's god and the American revolution -- lecture 8. Deism, science, and revolution -- lecture 9. Hamilton and his money -- lecture 10. Jefferson and his debts -- lecture 11. The Edwardseans: from Hopkins to Finney -- lecture 12. The moral philosophers -- lecture 13. Whigs and Democrats -- lecture 14. American romanticism -- lecture 15. Faith and reason at Princeton -- lecture 16. Romanticism in Mercersburg -- lecture 17. Slaveholders and abolitionists -- lecture 18. Lincoln and liberal democracy -- lecture 19. The failure of the genteel elite -- lecture 20. Darwin in America -- lecture 21. Liberalism and the social gospel -- lecture 22. The agony of William James -- lecture 23. Josiah Royce, the idealist dissenter -- lecture 24. John Dewey and social pragmatism -- lecture 25. Socialism in America -- lecture 26. Populists, progressives, and war -- lecture 27. Decade of the disenchanted -- lecture 28. The social science revolution -- lecture 29. The New South versus the new Negro -- lecture 30. FDR and the intellectuals -- lecture 31. Science under the cloud -- lecture 32. Ironic judgments -- lecture 33. Mass culture and mass consumption -- lecture 34. Integration and separation -- lecture 35. The rebellion of the privileged -- lecture 36. The neo-conservatives

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