Lehrman American Studies Center

Objectives This is an upper-division level political science course that will examine classical to modern accounts of American democracy. Students will learn the historical and theoretical underpinnings of the American republic and the social and political implications that result from…

American Political Thought: Abraham Lincoln and the House Divided "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free." Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1858 Course Purpose The Civil War has been…

Introduction and Course Description: Image982|thumbnail|280px|right|Signing of Declaration of Independence How do we make sense of Thomas Jefferson as an American revolutionary? As a young man in 1776, he had stirred the world with the radical words "we hold these truths…

Course Description Explores some of the main fields within the discipline of government (e.g., comparative politics, political theory) as well as some of the main approaches to the study of government (e.g., interpretivism, behavioralism, institutionalism). Various theories of integration for the…

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course examines classic American novelists and explores their treatment of fundamental themes of American political thought such as the state of nature and civil society, individual rights, human freedom and equality, and democratic self-government. Its goals include 1)…

I. Course Description This Course will study the theoretical ideas that informed the creation and development of America"s political system and consider some of the major contemporary challenges to the maintenance of American democracy. Topics to be treated include…

Introduction and Course Description Image1813|thumbnail|240px|right|Sale of Enslaved Africans and Transport to Slave Ship In 1756, Olaudah Equaino was eleven years old. That year, while living in his small village in what is now Nigeria, he and his younger sister were…