INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: AMERICAN IDENTITY
Joel L. Swerdlow, Changing America (Keynote)St. John De Crevecoeur, What is an American?James Baldwin, The Discovery of What It Means To Be An AmericanMary Gordon, The Ghosts of Ellis IslandJudith Ortiz Cofer, Silent DancingWalt Whitman, Song of Myself The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003
CHAPTER TWO: BELIEF
Gregory Rodriguez, Catholic Confession (Keynote)Selections from the King James BibleSelections from the Qur’anSelections from the Analects of ConfuciusSelections from the Rig Veda and the UpanishadsTom Paine, What I BelieveElizabeth Cady Stanton, The Book of GenesisFriedrich Nietzsche, God is DeadWilliam James, The Will to BelievePaul Tillich, The Lost Dimension in ReligionDalai Lama, The Art of Happiness Karen Armstrong, History and ReligionImages of Divinity
CHAPTER THREE: SCIENCE
Rosie Mestel, Of Mice and Men: We’re Quite Similar, Genetically (Keynote)Francis Bacon, Sphinx, or scienceMary Shelley, from FrankensteinCharles Darwin, from The Origin of Species and The Descent of ManStephen Jay Gould, Introduction to DarwinLuther Standing Bear, NatureAlbert Einstein, Letters to and From ChildrenRichard Feynman, The Value of ScienceAnnie Dillard, Life on the Rocks: The GalapagosSherry Turkle, How Computers Change The Way We ThinkPhoto, Qafzeh skull in Times Square
CHAPTER FOUR: ECONOMIC LIFE
Craig S. Smith, China Juggles the Conflicting Pressures of a Society in Transition (Keynote)Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations Karl Marx, The Communist ManifestoLouisa May Alcott, How I Went Out to ServiceAlbum: Money Matters. Six brief passages about money from Christopher Columbus, Henry Mayhew, W.H. Auden, Gertrude Stein, Edward Bellamy, and Dana Gioia.Studs Terkle, Mike LefevrePeter Singer, The Singer Solution to World PovertyBarbara Ehrenreich, Selling in Minnesota Bertolt Brecht, A Worker Reads History“American Values” (advertisement) and “Signs of the Times” (photo)
CHAPTER FIVE: DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY
Fareed Zakaria, The Democratic Age (Keynote)Niccolo Machiavelli, On the Exercise of Power John Locke, from The Second Treatise of Civil Government Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence Mary Wollstonecraft, The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind ConsideredHenry Thoreau, Civil DisobedienceThomas Babington Macaulay, Letter on DemocracyDaniel J. Boorstin, Technology and DemocracyVaclav Havel, The Power of the PowerlessBenjamin Barber, Jihad Vs. McWorldGish Jen, In the American SocietyDavid Hume Kennerly, Photographs Across America
CHAPTER SIX: EQUALITY: RACE AND GENDER
Gloria Goodale, Black and White (Keynote)Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Origin of InequalityAlexis de Tocqueville, Equality and IndividualismHarriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlW.E.B. DuBois, Of Our Spiritual StrivingsSimone de Beauvoir, What is a Woman?Betty Friedan, The Problem Without a NameMartin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jailbell hooks, Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist OppressionRichard Rodriguez, BrownJamaica Kincaid, GirlNostalgic Barbie
CHAPTER SEVEN: ART
Dan Barry and Carol Vogel, Guiliani Vows To Cut Subsidy Over ‘Sick’ Art (Keynote)Plato, from The RepublicAristotle, from PoeticsRalph Waldo Emerson, ArtOscar Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian GrayMeyer Schapiro, The Introduction of Modern Art in America: The Armory Show Illustration: Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a StaircaseSusan Sontag, A Century of CinemaN. Scott Momaday, The ArrowmakerSandra Cisneros, Little Miracles, Kept Promises
CHAPTER EIGHT: DEATH AND DYING
Studs Terkel, Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Keynote)Socrates, ApologyMarcus Aurelius, from The Meditations Virginia Woolf, The Death of a MothAlbum: “Where are the snows of Yesteryear?”: Some Thoughts on Death and Dying (1450-2001) Francois Villon, The Ballad of Dead LadiesEmily Dickinson, The Last Night That She LivedEmily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop For DeathDylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good NightAnne Sexton, Imitations of DrowningAngelina Rossi, Mothers and SonsRick Rundle, The StrangerCarlos Cortez, The Day of the DeadElizabeth Kubler-Ross, On the Fear of Death Yukio Mishima, from The Way of the Samurai Leslie Marmon Silko, From A High Arid Plateau in New Mexico Death among the Pueblo PeopleSherwin B. Nuland, Suicide and EuthanasiaPhotos from the Paris Catacombs
