Lehrman American Studies Center at ISI
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The Teaching Resource Catalog helps teachers quickly identify the best articles, books, images, websites, and many other media worth incorporating into a course. Our collection of modules and course syllabi show how some of the best scholars and teachers structure their courses, and what they consider worth teaching.
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Yale Open Course: Intro to Political Philosophy by Steven B. Smith
Medium: Website
This course is intended as an introduction to political philosophy as seen through an examination of some of the major texts and thinkers of the Western political tradition. Three broad themes that are central to understanding political life are focused…
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The Classical Roots of American Culture by David Pollio
Medium: Syllabus
Course Description Classical Greece and Rome have had a profound influence on many aspects of western civilization, in general, and American culture, in particular. From the time of the first European settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts through the early national period and…
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Public Policy and Political Economy by Gordon Lloyd
Medium: Syllabus
Purpose of Seminar This seminar examines several central conversations spanning four centuries on the theoretical and practical relationship between economics and politics. Each conversation addresses an important crisis and participants articulate the problems and recommend the solutions in their own words. There…
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The Roots Of American Order: What Is Public Policy… by Gordon Lloyd
Medium: Syllabus
The Two Dimensions of Public Policy Public Policy is a field of theoretical inquiry with its own language and standards of judgment as well as a practical activity directed ultimately toward the preservation and alteration of the polity. This first-semester core course…
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DiversityWeb ( Website )
Medium: Website
DiversityWeb is an interactive resource hub designed to support colleges and universities in their efforts to create settings that foster students' understanding of the intersection between domestic and global issues and their sense of responsibility as local and global citizens.…
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Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil Wa… by Nicole Etcheson
Medium: Book
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id9822
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American Political Science Association
Medium: Website
This is the preeminent political science website and a required bookmark for political scientists. It lists conferences, publications, teaching resources, and other important links that are valuable to the professional development of political scientists.
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Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis and Clark and the Re… ( Library of Congress )
Medium: Website
This is an excellent site that contains a great deal of information and many images about the Lewis and Clark expedition and the westward expansion as well as about how American leaders envisioned the west in the early 19th century.
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Crisis in Freedom; The Alien and Sedition Acts by John C. Miller
Medium: Book
Crisis in Freedom is a highly critical narrative of the Federalists in Congress and Adams administration over the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. Written for a popular audience, it was published in 1951 during the McCarthy hearings and…
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A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Mi… by John Shy
Medium: Book
Shy's insightful book (actually a collection of essays) has become a classic among military historians of the American Revolution. Published in 1976, it largely marks the beginning of the "new military history" in American historiography, which stresses how profoundly wars…