Part I

Introduction: American Political Thought:

  • Robert G. McCloskey, "American Political Thought and the Study of Politics" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 51, No. 1. (Mar., 1957), pp. 115-129;
  • Martin Diamond, "American Political Thought and the Study of Politics: Comment on McCloskey" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 51, No. 1. (Mar., 1957), pp. 130-134;
  • Clinton Rossiter "The Shaping of the American Tradition" William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Ser., Vol. 11, No. 4. (Oct., 1954), pp. 519-535.
  • George H. Sabine, "What is a Political Theory?" The Journal of Politics, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Feb., 1939), pp. 1-16.
  • Samuel P. Huntington, "Paradigms of American Politics: Beyond the One, the Two, and the Many" Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 89, No. 1. (Mar., 1974), pp. 1-26;
  • George W. Carey, James McClellan, "Towards the Restoration of the American Political Tradition" The Journal of Politics, Vol. 38, No. 3, 200 Years of the Republic in Retrospect: A Special Bicentennial Issue. (Aug., 1976), pp. 110-127;
  • Ewart Lewis, "The Contribution of Medieval Thought to the American Political Tradition" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 50, No. 2. (Jun., 1956), pp. 462-474.

    • The American Political Culture:

  • Liberalism: The Theory and Concept of Liberalism-- Abbot "Three American Languages"
  • John G. Gunnell, "American Political Science, "Liberalism, and the Invention of Political Theory" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 82, No. 1. (Mar., 1988), pp. 71-87;
  • William Galston, "Defending Liberalism" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 76, No. 3. (Sep., 1982), pp. 621-629;
  • William A. Galston, "Liberal Virtues" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 82, No. 4. (Dec., 1988), pp. 1277-1290.
  • Locke on Justice--Bizarre and isolated; Mary Ann Glendon Rights Talk;
  • B. F. Wright, Jr. "American Interpretations of Natural Law" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 20, No. 3. (Aug., 1926), pp. 524-547;
  • James T. Kloppenberg, "The Virtues of Liberalism: Christianity, Republicanism, and Ethics in Early American Political Discourse" The Journal of American History, Vol. 74, No. 1. (Jun., 1987), pp. 9-33;
  • Jeremy Waldron, "Theoretical Foundations of Liberalism" Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 147. (Apr., 1987), pp. 127-150.
  • American Exceptionalism:

    • John Kingdon, America the Unusual

    Rogers M. Smith, "Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 87, No. 3. (Sep., 1993), pp. 549-566;

    Jack P. Greene, "Interpretive Frameworks: The Quest for Intellectual Order in Early American History" William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Ser., Vol. 48, No. 4. (Oct., 1991), pp. 515-530 American Liberalism-- Tocqueville readings;

    Sanford Kessler, "Tocqueville’s Puritans: Christianity and the American Founding" The Journal of Politics, Vol. 54, No. 3. (Aug., 1992), pp. 776-792;

    Lynn L. Marshall, Seymour Drescher, "American Historians and Tocqueville’s Democracy" The Journal of American History, Vol. 55, No. 3. (Dec., 1968), pp. 512-532.

    The American Founding

  • Louis Hartz, "The Coming of Age of America" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 51, No. 2. (Jun., 1957), pp. 474-483;
  • Louis Hartz, "American Political Thought and the American Revolution" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 46, No. 2. (Jun., 1952), pp. 321-342;
  • Louis Hartz, "The Whig Tradition in America and Europe" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 46, No. 4. (Dec., 1952), pp. 989-1002.
  • Madison-- Federalist #10 & #51
  • Douglass Adair, "The Tenth Federalist Revisited" William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Ser., Vol. 8, No. 1, James Madison, 1751-1836: Bicentennial Number. (Jan., 1951), pp. 48-67.
  • Ralph L. Ketcham, "James Madison and the Nature of Man" Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 19, No. 1. (Jan., 1958), pp. 62-76;
  • Ralph L. Ketcham, "Notes on James Madison’s Sources for the Tenth Federalist Paper" Midwest Journal of Political Science, Vol. 1, No. 1. (May., 1957), pp. 20-25.
  • Ralph Ketcham, "Publius: Sustaining the Republican Principle" William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Ser., Vol. 44, No. 3, The Constitution of the United States. (Jul., 1987), pp. 576-582.
  • Robert J. Morgan, "Madison’s Theory of Representation in the Tenth Federalist" The Journal of Politics, Vol. 36, No. 4. (Nov., 1974), pp. 852-885;
  • David E. Ingersoll, "Machiavelli and Madison: Perspectives on Political Stability" Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 85, No. 2. (Jun., 1970), pp. 259-280;
  • Martin Diamond, "Democracy and the Federalist: A Reconsideration of the Framers’ Intent" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 53, No. 1. (Mar., 1959), pp. 52-68;
  • Alpheus Thomas Mason, "The Federalist--A Split Personality" The American Historical Review, Vol. 57, No. 3. (Apr., 1952), pp. 625-643.
  • The Anti-Federalists:
  • Cecelia M. Kenyon "Men of Little Faith: The Anti-Federalists on the Nature of Representative Government" William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Ser., Vol. 12, No. 1. (Jan., 1955), pp. 3-43. " & Anti-Federalist Writings
  • Where did they come from? Which way did they go?
  • Joyce Appleby, "The Social Origins of American Revolutionary Ideology" The Journal of American History, Vol. 64, No. 4. (Mar., 1978), pp. 935-958.
  • Republicanism: Republican Theory-- Abbot "Revolution" pp. 49-71;
  • Jack N. Rakove, "Gordon S. Wood, the "Republican Synthesis," and the Path Not Taken" William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Ser., Vol. 44, No. 3, The Constitution of the United States. (Jul., 1987), pp. 617-622;
  • Gordon S. Wood, "Ideology and the Origins of Liberal America" William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Ser., Vol. 44, No. 3, The Constitution of the United States. (Jul., 1987), pp. 628-640.
  • American Constitutionalism–
  • Michael Lienesch, "The Constitutional Tradition: History, Political Action, and Progress in American Political Thought 1787-1793" The Journal of Politics, Vol. 42, No. 1. (Feb., 1980), pp. 2-30.
  • Jack N. Rakove, "The Great Compromise: Ideas, Interests, and the Politics of Constitution Making" William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Ser., Vol. 44, No. 3, (Jul., 1987), pp. 424-457.

    • Part II

  • Institutions through Bifocals
  • Clinton L. Rossiter, "The Constitutional Significance of the Executive Office of the President" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 43, No. 6. (Dec., 1949), pp. 1206-1217
  • Theodore J. Lowi, "Presidential Power: Restoring The Balance" Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 100, No. 2. (Summer, 1985), pp. 185-213.
  • Cycles of American History–
  • V. O. Key, Jr., "A Theory of Critical Elections" The Journal of Politics, Vol. 17, No. 1. (Feb., 1955), pp. 3-18;
  • Walter Dean Burnham "Critical Elections: Mainsprings of American Politics"
  • Walter Dean Burnham, "The Changing Shape of the American Political Universe" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 59, No. 1. (Mar., 1965), pp. 7-28;
  • Benjamin Ginsberg, "Critical Elections and the Substance of Party Conflict: 1844-1968" Midwest Journal of Political Science, Vol. 16, No. 4. (Nov., 1972), pp. 603-625;
  • V. O. Key, Jr., "Secular Realignment and the Party System" The Journal of Politics, Vol. 21, No. 2. (May., 1959), pp. 198-210.
  • Peter F. Nardulli, "The Concept of a Critical Realignment, Electoral Behavior, and Political Change" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 89, No. 1. (Mar., 1995), pp. 10-22.
  • David Brady, Joseph Stewart, Jr.," Congressional Party Realignment and Transformations of Public Policy in Three Realignment Eras" American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 26, No. 2. (May, 1982), pp. 333-360.
  • David W. Brady," A Reevaluation of Realignments in American Politics: Evidence from the House of Representatives" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 79, No. 1. (Mar., 1985), pp. 28-49.
  • Martin P. Wattenberg," The Hollow Realignment: Partisan Change in a Candidate-Centered Era" Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 1. (Spring, 1987), pp. 58-74.
  • Whither the American Party System?
  • James L. Sundquist, "Whither the American Party System?" Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 88, No. 4. (Dec., 1973), pp. 559-581.
  • James L. Sundquist,"Whither the American Party System?--Revisited" Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 98, No. 4. (Winter, 1983 - Winter, 1984), pp. 573-593.
  • Ted Goertzel, Rutgers University, Camden NJ 08102 "The World Trade Center Bombing as a Fourth Generational Turning Point" http://crab.rutgers.edu/%7Egoertzel/fourthturning.htm
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  • After the Federalists America Returns to Democracy?

  • Richard Hofstadter, "Parrington and the Jeffersonian Tradition" Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 2, No. 4. (Oct., 1941), pp. 391-400.

  • Jacksonian Democracy and Nativism:
  • William E. Gienapp, "Nativism and the Creation of a Republican Majority in the North before the Civil War" The Journal of American History, Vol. 72, No. 3. (Dec., 1985), pp. 529-559.
  • Calhoun:
  • Biographical Sketch of Calhoun;
  • Calhoun’s "Disquisition on Government";
  • George Kateb, "The Majority Principle: Calhoun and His Antecedents" Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 84, No. 4. (Dec., 1969), pp. 583-605;
  • Roberta Herzberg, "An Analytic Choice Approach to Concurrent Majorities: The Relevance of John C. Calhoun’s Theory for Institutional Design" The Journal of Politics, Vol. 54, No. 1. (Feb., 1992), pp. 54-81;
  • Ralph Lerner, "Calhoun’s New Science of Politics" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 57, No. 4. (Dec., 1963), pp. 918-932;
  • Lacy K. Ford, "Republican Ideology in a Slave Society: The Political Economy of John C. Calhoun" The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 54, No. 3. (Aug., 1988), pp. 405-424;
  • Gerald M. Capers, "A Reconsideration of John C. Calhoun’s Transition from Nationalism to Nullification" The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 14, No. 1. (Feb., 1948), pp. 34-48.
  • Manifest Destiny
  • John L. O’Sullivan on Manifest Destiny
  • Michael Lubragge: Background

    • The Civil War

  • Gerald Gunderson, "The Origin of the American Civil War" Journal of Economic History, Vol. 34, No. 4. (Dec., 1974), pp. 915-950;
  • Arthur Bestor, "The American Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis" The American Historical Review, Vol. 69, No. 2. (Jan., 1964), pp. 327-352.
  • Slavery--  The Constitution of the Confederate States of America
  • Lincoln--  Gettysburg Address
  • Reconstruction--  Lincoln’s Second Inaugural
  • Dealing for presidents : A Democratic, Southern President?

    • The Progressive Era-- Hartz, Ch. IX Abbot Ch. 6

  • Nativism revisited:
  • Stanley Coben, "A Study in Nativism: The American Red Scare of 1919-20" Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 79, No. 1. (Mar., 1964), pp. 52-75.
  • Honesty and Efficiency redux-- Samuel P. Hays, "Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920"
  • Beard "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution"; Smith "The Spirit of American Government"

    • A ‘New’ Deal?

  • Theodore Lowi "The Second Republic";
  • Theodore Lowi, "The Public Philosophy: Interest-Group Liberalism" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 61, No. 1. (Mar., 1967), pp. 5-24.
  • Richard Hofstadter-- "The Paranoid Style of American Politics"
  • Nativism re-revisited:
  • George M. Stephenson, "Nativism in the Forties and Fifties, with Special Reference to the Mississippi Valley" The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 9, No. 3. (Dec., 1922), pp. 185-202.

    • Pluribus without unum?

  • Arthur Schlesinger "The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society"
  • Samuel Huntington "Who Are We : The Challenges to America's National Identity"

    • Addendum: American Historiography

  • Michael McGerr, " The Price of the "New Transnational History" The American Historical Review, Vol. 96, No. 4. (Oct., 1991), pp. 1056-1067.
  • Rowland Berthoff, "Writing a History of Things Left Out" Reviews in American History, Vol. 14, No. 1. (Mar., 1986), pp. 1-16.
  • Laurence Veysey, "The Autonomy of American History Reconsidered" American Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 4. (Autumn, 1979), pp. 455-477.
  • John Patrick Diggins, "Comrades and Citizens: New Mythologies in American Historiography" The American Historical Review, Vol. 90, No. 3. (Jun., 1985), pp. 614-638.
  • John Patrick Diggins, "Power and Authority in American History: The Case of Charles A. Beard and His Critics" The American Historical Review, Vol. 86, No. 4. (Oct., 1981), pp. 701-730.
  • Carl N. Degler, "Remaking American History" The Journal of American History, Vol. 67, No. 1. (Jun., 1980), pp. 7-25.
  • John P. Diggins, "Consciousness and Ideology in American History: The Burden of Daniel J. Boorstin" The American Historical Review, Vol. 76, No. 1. (Feb., 1971), pp. 99-118.
  • John Higham, "Beyond Consensus: The Historian as Moral Critic" The American Historical Review, Vol. 67, No. 3. (Apr., 1962), pp. 609-625.
  • Sacvan Bercovitch, "Investigations of an Americanist" The Journal of American History, Vol. 78, No. 3. (Dec., 1991), pp. 972-987.
  • David Harlan, "A People Blinded from Birth: American History According to Sacvan Bercovitch" The Journal of American History, Vol. 78, No. 3. (Dec., 1991), pp. 949-971.
  • Darryl Baskin, "American Pluralism: Theory, Practice, and Ideology" The Journal of Politics, Vol. 32, No. 1. (Feb., 1970), pp. 71-95.
  • Randall B. Ripley, "Adams, Burke, and Eighteenth-Century Conservatism" Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 80, No. 2. (Jun., 1965), pp. 216-235.
  • Samuel P. Huntington, "Conservatism as an Ideology" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 51, No. 2. (Jun., 1957), pp. 454-473.
  • Wilson Carey McWilliams, "Reinhold Niebuhr: New Orthodoxy for Old Liberalism" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 56, No. 4. (Dec., 1962), pp. 874-885.
  • James L. Huston, "The American Revolutionaries, the Political Economy of Aristocracy, and the American Concept of the Distribution of Wealth, 1765-1900" The American Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 4. (Oct., 1993), pp. 1079-1105.
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