Enlightenment in America

History 126H - honors college

Tuesday, Dec. 8

Patrick J. Buchanan, "The Culture Wars" (1992) (.doc)

Tuesday, Nov. 23

Please find in the ODU Library an online edition of
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)

• Constantin Brancusi, Golden Bird (1919)
• Mina Loy, "Brancusi's Golden Bird," The Dial (November 1922), 507-08.
• Marcel Duchamp, Nude descending a staircase (1912)
• Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Kahnweiler (1910)
  

Tuesday, Oct. 25 (all .pdf's)

According to the groups as organized in class on Thursday, 10/21, please print, read, bring to class, and be prepared to present to the rest of the class (who have not read your team's document) both the essence of the argument/issue and to point out some of the key wording/passages.

1. Somerset v. Stewart (1772)
2. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
3. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
4. Virginia Racial Integrity Act (1924)
5. Loving v. Virginia (1967)

Tuesday, Oct. 18 (both .doc)

1. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1831)
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" in Essays (1841)

Thursday, Sept. 30 - Liberty & Property

1. John Locke (1689), property excerpts
      labor theory of value
      gov't for the preservation of property (.pdf)

2. Fr. Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen

3. Olympe de Gouges, Decl. of Rights of Women

4. U.S. Constitutional Convention (1788) & Bill of Rights
      S.C. (Charles Pinkney)
      Md. (Luther Martin)

5. Gettysburg Address
      Garry Wills, Lincoln At Gettysburg (1993, excerpt in Atlantic)