Challenges to the American founding : slavery, historicism, and progressivism in the nineteenth century / edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West.

Contributor Pestritto, Ronald J.

Imprint:Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2005.

Descriptionx, 304 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Republicanism and constitutional government in the political thought of Andrew Jackson / Richard J. Dougherty -- John C. Calhoun and the new science of race and politics / Thomas L. Krannawitter --tLincoln, secession, and revolution : the Civil War challenge to the founding / Herman Belz -- Jefferson Davis and self-government / Will Morrisey -- Protecting the privileges of citizenship : founding, civil war, and reconstruction / David Upham -- Theology, metaphysics, and positivism : the origins of the social sciences and the transformation of the American university / John Marini -- Shoreless ocean, sunless sea : Henry Adams' democracy / Charles T. Rubin -- Walt Whitman's civic religion for America / John E. Alvis -- Jane Addams, Benjamin Franklin, and the problem of welfare dependency / Joel Schwartz -- Woodrow Wilson, American history, and the advent of progressivism / Ronald J. Pestritto.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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