Political Ideology in America

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What ideas define Americans? Is there one narrative of citizenship that defines the United States or several versions that “we, the people”? This course links early texts in American Political Thought (e.g. American revolution, constitutional convention, Civil War) to later intellectual and political movements in American thought (e.g. Black civil rights, women’s suffrage). We explore whether all these movements share conceptual foundations and whether later movements refuted, amended, or supported concepts that were fundamental to the “founding.”