American Exceptionalism Vol 4

Name: American Exceptionalism Vol 4
ISBN: 9781315097343

doi:10.4324/9781315097343

ABSTRACT

American exceptionalism � the idea that America is fundamentally distinct from other nations � is a philosophy that has dominated economics, politics, religion and culture for two centuries. This collection of primary source material seeks to understand how this belief began, how it developed and why it remains popular.

William Learned Marcy, An Oration on the Three Hundred and Eighteenth Anniversary of the Discovery of America, Delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, in the County of Rensselaer; and State of New-York. With a Traditional Account of the Life of Tammany, an Indian Chief (Troy, NY: Oliver Lyon, 1809).

part 6|2 pages

Seward, The Army Of The United States Not To Be Employed As A Police To Enforce The Laws Of The Conquerors Of Kansas

chapter 6|21 pages

William Seward, The Army of the United States Not to Be Employed as a Police to Enforce the Laws of the Conquerors of Kansas (Washington, DC: Buell & Blanchard, 1856).

part 7|2 pages

Wigfall, Speech in the Us Senate

chapter 7|8 pages

Louis Wigfall, Speech in the US Senate, 36th Congress, 1st session, 22 March 1860, Congressional Globe (1860), pp. 1303–4.

part 8|2 pages

Anon., ‘The National Crisis’

chapter 8|22 pages

Anon., ‘The National Crisis’, Christian Review, 26 (July 1861), pp. 487–521.

part 9|2 pages

Nadal, The War in the Light of Divine Providence

chapter 9|10 pages

Bernard Harrison Nadal, The War in the Light of Divine Providence: A Fast Day Sermon (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1863).

part 10|2 pages

Palmer, The Opening Future; or, the Results of the Present War

chapter 10|11 pages

Ray Palmer, The Opening Future; or, The Results of the Present War. A Thanksgiving Discourse, November 26th, 1863 (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1863).

part 11|2 pages

Sunderland, The Crisis of the Times

chapter 11|19 pages

Byron Sunderland, The Crisis of the Times: A Sermon Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Washington D.C., on the Evening of The National Fast Day, Thursday, April 30, 1863 (Washington, DC: ‘National Banner’ Press, 1863).

part 12|2 pages

Bragg, ‘Under Which King, Bezonian?’

chapter 12|33 pages

H. Bragg, ‘Under which King, Bezonian?’A Challenge elicited by The Hon. J. Lothrop Motley’s Address on Historic Progress and American Democracy. Inscribed Respectfully [But Without Leave]to Professor Blackie, whose Arguments in his Celebrated Lecture on Democracy Much of the Quoted Matter herein goes Strongly to Support (London and Liverpool: Simpkin, Marshall & Co; Edward Howell, 1869).

part 13|2 pages

Seligman, ‘Economics and Social Progress’

chapter 13|11 pages

Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, ‘Economics and Social Progress’, Publications of the American Economic Association, 4 (1903), pp. 52–70.

American Exceptionalism Vol 4

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part 1|2 pages

Drayton, A Charge, on the Rise of the American Empire

chapter 1|14 pages

part 2|2 pages

West, A Sermon, Delivered Upon the Late National Thanksgiving

chapter 2|9 pages

part 3|2 pages

Martin, A New Scene Interesting to the Citizens of the United States of America

chapter 3|8 pages

part 4|2 pages

Rogers, An Oration, Pronounced At Campton, New Hampshire

chapter 4|7 pages

part 5|2 pages

Marcy, An Oration On The Three Hundred And Eighteenth Anniversary Of The Discovery Of America

chapter 5|23 pages