Here is a list of the assigned readings for the summer seminar:
Thomas Paine
Common Sense (introduction)
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence
David Walker
An Appeal
The Seneca Falls Convention
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Frederick Douglass
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Abraham Lincoln
"House Divided" speech
Walt Whitman
I Sing the Body Electric
A Boston Ballad
John Brown
Address to the Court
Henry David Thoreau
A Plea for Captain John Brown
Mass. 2nd Battalion (traditional)
John Brown's Body
Julia Ward Howe
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Rebecca Harding Davis
Life in the Iron Mills
Stephen Crane
In the Depths of a Coal Mine
W.E.B. DuBois
The Souls of Black Folk (chapter 1)
The Souls of Black Folk (chapter 6)
The Souls of Black Folk (chapter 11)
The Souls of Black Folk (chapter 13)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
"I Have a Dream" speech
Malcolm X
"The Ballot or the Bullet" speech
Lyndon B. Johnson
"On Civil Rights, at Gettysburg" speech
Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique (excerpt)