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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|2 pages
Rosier, A True Relation of the Most Prosperous Voyage Made this Present Year 1605 by Captaine George Waymouth in the Discovery of the Land of Virginia
part 2|2 pages
[Farrer/Ferrar], A Perfect Description of Virginia
part 3|2 pages
The Original Rights of Mankind Freely to Subdue and Improve the Earth
part 4|2 pages
[Duffield], A Sermon Preached in the Third Presbyterian Church in the City of Philadelphia
part 5|2 pages
Belknap, ‘Enquiry Whether the Discovery of America has been Useful or Hurtful to Mankind’
part 6|2 pages
Linn, The Blessings of America
part 7|2 pages
Ingersoll, An Oration
part 8|3 pages
The American Colonization Society
part 9|2 pages
Allan, Oration Delivered Before the Chamberlain Philosophical and Literary Society of Centre College
part 10|3 pages
United States Magazine and Democratic Review
part 11|2 pages
[Hazewell], ‘The Oregon Question’
part 12|2 pages
Greeley and Raymond, Association Discussed, or the Socialism of the Tribune Examined
part 13|2 pages
Anon., ‘Communism’
part 14|2 pages
Murdock, Address on the Free Soil Question
part 15|2 pages
Wade, Plain Truths for the People
part 16|2 pages
Cox, Laws of National Growth. – Mexican Affairs
part 17|2 pages
Clark, ‘The Nature and Progress of True Socialism’
part 18|2 pages
Veblen, ‘Some Neglected Points in the Theory of Socialism’
