American Political Thought Since the Civil War
Professor Wilson Carey McWilliams and Susan J. McWilliams
Haverford College - Spring 2005
Syllabus (PDF | TXT)
For background, the syllabus for POLS 266: American Political Thought Founding to Civil War may be a useful starting place.
Lecture Recordings
| Lecture 1 (January 17th, 2005) Intro; Review of Course and Readings; Civil War's Effect on American Thought. |
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| Lecture 2 (January 19th, 2005) The Gilded Age and the Changing Notion of Progress |
The mp3 of this lecture was damaged, and is just barely intelligible. You may download it anyway here (14MB) but you may find the lecture notes ( DOC | PDF ) more useful. | ||
| Lecture 3 (January 24th, 2005) Henry Adams, William Sumner and the Notion of Political Corruption. |
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| Lecture 4 (January 26th, 2005) William Sumner, Social Darwinism and Morality. |
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| Lecture 5 (January 31st, 2005) William Sumner, Class, Government and War. |
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| Lecture 6 (February 2nd, 2005) The Steel Chain of Ideas and the beginnings of Populism. |
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| Lecture 7 (February 7th, 2005) Populism, Racism, The Wizard of Oz and the election of 1896. |
Due to technical difficulties, a recording of this lecture was not made. Lecture notes ( DOC | PDF ) are posted as a poor substitute for the real thing. | ||
| Lecture 8 (February 9th, 2005) Progressivism; Twain's "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg." |
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| Lecture 9 (February 14th, 2005) Social Darwinism, Roosevelt and the Administrative Ideology |
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| Lecture 10 (February 16th, 2005) Secondary Groups & other Problems; Different Types of Progressives |
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| Lecture 11 (February 21st, 2005) Progressivism and W.E.B. DuBois. |
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| Lecture 12 (February 23rd, 2005) W.E.B. DuBois and religion in African American history. |
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| Lecture -- (February 28th, 2005) | Class cancelled due to inclement weather. | ||
| Lecture 13 (March 2nd, 2005) More on DuBois; Charlotte P. Gilman's Herland. |
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| Lecture 14 (March 14th, 2005) |
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| Lecture 15 (March 16th, 2005) |
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| Lecture 16 (March 21st, 2005) | There is no recoding available for this lecture. | ||
| Lecture 17 (March 23rd, 2005) |
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| Lecture 18 (March 28th, 2005) More on Dewey; Implications of Great Depression; Intro to New Deal |
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| March 30th, 2005 On March 29th, 2005, Wilson Carey McWilliams passed away. These lectures will remain available online. As time progresses, I hope to polish my lecture notes, as well as those from the first semester of this course (for which, sadly, there are no recordings), and post them in the hopes of making this material even more accessible. Professor McWilliams' daughter Susan McWilliams, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, has heroically offered to lead the rest of this course in conjunction with several guest lecturers. The recordings, where possible, are available below. --Andrew L. Yeats |
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| Lecture 19 (April 6th, 2005) Susan McWilliams The Changing Notions of Liberalism and Conservatism |
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| Lecture 20 (April 11th, 2005) Chip Turner Prologue to Invisible Man; Allusions to Hegel and Emerson |
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| Lecture 21 (April 13th, 2005) Chip Turner More on Invisible Man |
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| Lecture 22 (April 18th, 2005) Susan McWilliams Invisible Man: Plato, Freud, tragedy and the blues |
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| Lecture 23 (April 20th, 2005) Patrick Deneen Kurt Vonnegut: Ancient v. Modern Tragedy and Comedy |
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| Lecture 24 (April 25th, 2005) Susan McWilliams |
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| Lecture 25 (April 27th, 2005) Susan McWilliams The Third Republic: Labor-saving, Productivity and Its Effects. |
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