CHAPTER ONE. Westward expansion and the American mission. Defining the mission. A vision of world brotherhood: Walt Whitman, ""passage to India,"" 1871. A vision of world power: Josiah strong, our country: its possible future and is presente crisis, 1885. THE TEMPERAMENT OF THE FRONTIERSMAN. The frontiersman in his habitat: Morris Birkbeck notes on a jurney in America 1817. The frontiersman and his vices: timothy Dwight travels in new-England and New York, 1821. The frontiersman and his virtues: Timothy Flint, recollection of the last ten years, letter XVII, 1826. THE INFLUENCE OF THE FRONTIER. The frontier and the romantic sensibility: Washington Irving, ""Frontier scenes, "" ""Osage village"", a tour on the prairies, 1835. The frontier and the imagination: Thomas Bangs Thorpe, ""the big bear of Arkansas"", 1841. The frontier faith: Peter Cartwright, ""riding the Scioto circuit,"" autobiography of Peter Cartwright. 1857. TRANSCENDENTAL INQUIRY AND INDIVIDUAL CONSCIENCE. A rational religion: William Ellery Channing, the moral argument against Calvinism. Wisdom of the Majority: George Bancroft, the office of the people in art, government and religion. A declaration of intellectual independence: Ralph Waldo Emerson, self-reliance. TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN LITERATURE. A genteel morality: Oliver Wendell Holmes, the chambered nautilus, 1858, and the deacon`s masterpiece. Pilgrim`s regress: Nathaniel Hawthorne, the celestial railroad. Prideful alienation: Nathaniel Hawthorne, the celestial railroad. SOCIAL PROGRESS. Social injustice and education: Frances Wright, of existing Evils and their remedy. The mind of the reformer: Horace Greeley, reforms and reformers, recollections of a busy life. Christian socialism at Oneida: Hohn Humphrey, Noyes, the Oneida community, history of American socialisms. INTERNAL DISSENSION AND SENSE OF UNION. The old order and southern agrarianism: Frederick Law Olmsted, a first-rate cotton plantation, a journey in the back country. The new order and northern industrialism: William J. Grayson, the hireling and the slave. Population origins: Edward A. Pollard, the lost cause: a new southern history of the war of the confederates. STAVERY AND DISUNION. The spirit of insurrection: Thomas R. Gray, the confessions of Nat turner. The abolitionists, attack: William Lloyd Garrison, preface, the narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas. The southern defense: George Fitzhugh, Negro slavery, sociology for the south. THE RESORT TO WAR. Rallying the union: Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address. Justifying the southern cause: Jefferson Davis, inaugural address. Appomattox: conclusion of a long march: Joshua L. Chamberlain, the third brigate at Appomattox. RECONSTRUCTION. A restoration policy: Abraham Lincoln, second inaugural address. The loss of a leader: Walt Whitman, when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom`d. Radica reconstruction: traddeus Stevens, reconstruction. INDUSTRIAL TRIUMPH AND CONFRONTATION SOCIETY. Paradox of progress and poverty: Henry George, the persistence of poverty, the single tax, progress and poverty. The city as nerve center of civilization; Josiah Strong, Perils the city, our country. The shame of the cities: Jacob August Riis, genesis of the tenement and the awakening, how the other half lives. GOSPEL OF WEALTH. The power of self-confidence: Russell H. Conwell, acres of diamonds. The art of making money: P.T. Barnum, seven commandments for success in American business, struggles and triumphs. The proper administration of wealth: Andrew Carnegie, wealth. ART AND ENVIRONMENT. Indigenous art: folklore and song: three American ballads John Henry, ballad of the boll weevil, and Jesse James. Indigenous art: local color: Bret Harte, the Outcasts of poker flat.

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