Class News and Updates
       (updated 4 May 2009)

First Day Assignment -- complete, email me your results, and bring them to class on
  Tuesday, 15 January.

Syllabus

Conceptual Critique: Sign-Up and Directions

Theorist Scorecard

Student Contract

Political Compass Results/Distribution

Term Paper

• Topics and Instructions (select "print layout" from "view" options when the page opens)

• Distribution of Topics

Class Handouts

• Currency of Concepts

• Revolutionary Period Timeline

• Populism and The Wizard of Oz

Midsemester Examination (due, at beginning of class, Thursday, 5 March)

• Review Session:

• General Q&A on the examination questions    

Final Examination Study Questions (previous)

  Weblinks of Course Relevance

Sections of the Course:

• Introductory Comments: A Liberal Society

• Early American Political Thought: Religious and Secular Roots

• Constitutional Era: Thought Institutionalized

• The Time of Development and Crisis

• Reunion and Reaction

• The Rise of a Countervailing Power: The Welfare State

• The Turbulent Decades and Beyond

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