Radical legacies : twentieth century public intellectuals in the United States / by Redding, Arthur F., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: globalism and democratic pedagogy in Henry James and Henry Adams -- World War I and the origins of the national security state: Mary Antin, Randolph Bourne, and Emma Goldman -- Mary McCarthy's swizzle sticks: food, drink, and consumerism in the American depression -- Herman Melville's Cold War: re-reading C.L.R. James's mariners, renegades, and castaways -- Turning poetry into bread: Langston Hughes, travel-writing, and the professionalization of African-American literary production -- Legacies of the new left: Paul Goodman, C. …”
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Beyond the Revolution : a history of American thought from Paine to pragmatism / by Goetzmann, William H.

At home in nineteenth-century America : a documentary history /

Table of Contents: “…Elizabeth Wetherell), The wide, wide world (1850) ; Excerpt from Herman Melville, "I and my chimney," Putnam's monthly magazine, March 1856 -- The persistence of domestic labor : Excerpt from Ward Stafford, new missionary field: a report to the female missionary society for the poor of the City of New York, and its vicinity (1817) ; Excerpt from Catharine Maria Sedgwick, The poor rich man, and the rich poor man (1837) ; Excerpt from Clarissa Packard, Recollections of a housekeeper (1834) ; Excerpt from Catharine Beecher, Letters to persons who are engaged in domestic service (1842) ; Excerpt from "Home in a boarding-house," Lowell Offering 3 (1842) ; Excerpt from volume 1 of the diary of Lizzie A. …”

The Civil War : the final year told by those who lived it /

Table of Contents: “…Caldwell: from The History of a Brigade of South Carolinians -- Grant turns south: Virginia, May 1864 / Horace Porter: from Campaigning with Grant -- "Strife in the pines": Virginia, May 1864 / Herman Melville: The Armies of the Wilderness -- "If it takes all summer": Virginia, May 1864 / Ulysses S. …”
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