Seminář k dějinám USA - jaro 2016

Pondělí 17.00-18.20

SEMINÁŘ 15. ÚNORA

Četba pro seminář 22. února

John Locke: Second Treatise of Government. (1689) – vybrané části in David Boaz (ed.):, The Libertarian leader (New York: The Free Press, 1997), 123-134. (doc)
Thomas Jefferson:Declaration of Independence. (1776) in In Bernard E. Brown (ed.), Great American Political Thinkers, Volume 1 (New York: Avon Books, 1983), 300 – 306. (doc)
Adams Letters

Četba pro seminář 29. února

REFERÁT 1: James Madison, Vices of the Political System of the United States. Apr 1787. Benjamin Rush:The Defect of the Confederation.(1787) In:Essential Documents in American History, 1942 – Present, pp. 1 – 4.
REFERÁT 2: John Adams, Defense of the American Constitution. (1787) in Bernard E. Brown (ed.),Great American Political Thinkers, Volume 1 (New York: Avon Books, 1983), 171 – 183. George Mason, Objections to the Constitution.(1887) – vybrané části, in Bernard E. Brown (ed.),Great American Political Thinkers, Volume 1 (New York: Avon Books, 1983), 215 – 218.
Články konfederace (viz Dějiny USA, Tindall and Shi)
Ústava Spojených států amerických
Bernard Bailyn: To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders(New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 100-125.

Četba pro seminář 7. března

Thomas Jefferson:On the Importance of Agriculture (1794),
Alexander Hamilton: Report on the Subject of Manufactures (Dec 5, 1791) In: Richard Hofstadter (ed.), Great Issues in American History. From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865 (New York: Vintage Books, 1958) 169-176. Oba dokumenty zde.

Četba pro seminář 14. března

John O’Sullivan: “Annexation.” In: United States Magazine and Democratic Review 17, no.1 (July-August 1845): 5-10,
The Great Nation of Futurity. In: The United States Democratic Review. Volume 6, Issue 23, Nov 1839.
Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution. The First Generation of Americans (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000), 239-266 (A New National Identity).

Četba pro seminář 21. března

Četba pro seminář 4. dubna

William Lloyd Garrison : Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention.: Man Cannot Hold Property in Man (1833) in David Boaz (ed.), The Libertarian Reader (New York: The Free Press, 1997), 77 – 80.
Frederick Douglas: Fourth of July Oration“ (1852) in David Boaz (ed.), The Libertarian Reader (New York: The Free Press, 1997), 84 – 87. This text is part of the Garrison text.
Abraham Lincoln: A House Divided Speech (1858)
Eric Foner, “Politics, Ideology and the Origins of American Civil War,” in A Nation Divided: Problems and Issues of the Civil War and Reconstruction, ed. George M. Fredrickson (Minneapolis, 1975), 15-34.

Četba pro seminář 11. dubna

Frederick Jackson Turner: The Significance of Frontier in American History, kapitola 1.
Sumner, William Graham: The Fallacy of Territorial Extension. Or in Robert C. Bannister (ed.), On Liberty, Society, and Politics: The Essential Essays of William Graham Sumer (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1992), 265 – 271.
Walter LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 (Ithaca, London: Cornell Paperbacks, 1987), 102-149 (Strategic Formulation).

Četba pro seminář 18. dubna

Andrew Carnegie: Gospel of Wealth
William Graham Sumner: The Survival of the Fittest. In: Bannister Robert C. (ed.): On Liberty, Society, and Politics. The Essential Essays of William Graham Sumner. Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, 1992, str. 223- 226.
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform (New York, Knopf, 1955), 174-214 (The Progressive Impulse).

Četba pro seminář 25. dubna

FDR: The First Inaugural,
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash 1929 (Houghton Mifflin Comp, 1955), vybrané části.
Heinz Eulau, Neither Ideology nor Utopia: The New Deal in Retrospect, The Antioch Review (zima 1959-1960): 523-537.

Četba pro seminář 2. května

George F. Kennan: The Long Telegram (The Charge in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State), FRUS: Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, Volume VI, 1946 , 696 – 709.
Frank Costigliola, „Is this George Kennan?,“ New York Review of Books (8. prosince 2011)

Četba pro seminář 9. května

Robert Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah. Modern Liberals and American Decline (New York: Regan Books), 226-249.
Martin Luther King: I have a Dream, přepis zde.
Barack Obama: „A More Perfect Union.“ A speech on Race, 18. března 2008, video zde
Charles Murray: Discredited Liberalism. In: William H. Chafe, Harvard Sitkoff (eds.), A History of Our Time (New York, Oxford University Press, 1995), 131 – 149.