History of American Thought and Culture

FAIN: FF-10344-74

Winton U. Solberg
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Champaign, IL 61801-3620)

To examine the growth of American thought and culture by study of selected topics which have been influential in shaping intellectual and cultural development in America from the beginning to the present. The topics include: American Puritanism, the American Enlightenment, the romantic impulse in American, the Americalization of Christianity, the Southern intellectual tradition. The interaction between ideas and material factors in forming American thought and culture will receive attention, with a focus on the interplay between religious, scientific, political, social, literary, and aesthetic developments.