History of American Thought and Culture

FAIN: FS-10447-76

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Champaign, IL 61801-3620)
Winton U. Solberg (Project Director: January 1977 to present)

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 American from the beginning to the present. The topics include: American Puritanism, the American Enlightenment, the romantic impulse in America, the Americanization 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.