name and essays

starred are post-midterm

Frederick Douglass

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Walt Whitman

Democratic Vistas

Woodrow Wilson

The Ideals of America

Saum Song Bo

A Chinese View of the Statute of Liberty

Jane Addams

Twenty Years at Hull House

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Selection from Women and Economics

Walter Rauschenbusch

Christianity and the Social Crisis

Lester Frank Ward

Mind as a Social Factor

William James

What Pragmatism Means, On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings

John Dewey

Philosophy and Democracy

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk

Randolph Bourne (culture)

Transnational America

Alaine Locke

Enter the New Negro

Zora Neale Hurston

How it Feels to be Colored Me

Randolph Bourne (War)

The War and the Intellectuals

Joseph Wood Krutch

The Modern Temper

John Crowe Ransom

Reconstructed by Unregenerate

Ruth Benedict

The Science of Custom

Edmund Wilson

An Appeal to Progressives

Sidney Hook

Communism without Dogmas

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Economic Bill of Rights

Reinhold Niebuhr

The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

Meridel Le Seur

I Was Marching

Clement Greenberg

Avante Garde and Kitsch

William Phillips

The Intellectuals’ Tradition

Hannah Arendt

Ideology and Terror

Daniel Bell

The End of Ideology in the West

Whittaker Chambers

Witness

Milton Friedman

Capitalism and Freedom

Ayn Rand

Man’s Rights

Russell Kirk

A Concise Guide to Conservatism

Young Americans for Freedom

The Sharon Statement

James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

Martin Luther King

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Ella Baker

Bigger than a Hamburger

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Statement of Purpose

C. Wright Mills

Letter to the New Left

Students for a Democratic Society

The Port Huron Statement

Noam Chomsky

The Responsibility of Intelletcuals

Betty Friedan

The Feminine Mystique

Kate Millett

Sexual Politic

Ellen Willis

Up from Radicalism: A Feminist Journal, The Family: Love It or Leave It

Richard Rorty

Democracy and Philosophy, Trotsky and the Wild Orchids

Susan Sontag

Against Interpretation, Notes on Camp

Malcolm X

The Ballot or the Bullet