Sumários

Liberalism and Republicanism (continued)

23 Abril 2018, 18:00 • Edgardo António Medeiros da Silva

The political and economic transformations of the Gilded Age. 

The "robber barons" and Jacob Riis' documentary photography in "How the Other Half Lives" (1890)).
Analysis and commentary of Whitman's "Democratic Vistas" (part two).

Liberalism and Republicanism in the American Political Nation

18 Abril 2018, 18:00 • Edgardo António Medeiros da Silva

The academic debate surrounding the principles of liberalism and republicanism,or between commerce and virtue. Alan Gibson's neo-Lockean synthesis.

Analysis and discussion of part 1 of Walt Whitman's "Democratic Vistas" (1871).
Student presentation: Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893).

Consolidation class

16 Abril 2018, 18:00 • Edgardo António Medeiros da Silva

Focus activity to consolidate contents taught based on excerpt from George Washington's "Farewell Address" (1796).
Academic English: how to write an abstract.
Guidelines for research papers.

US Party System (continued)

11 Abril 2018, 18:00 • Edgardo António Medeiros da Silva

Bryce and Tocqueville: two perspectives on American party politics and history.
Close reading of James Bryce's "Composition of Parties", in The American Commonwealth (1888).
Student presentation: "President Grant", in Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1918).

US Party System (continued)

9 Abril 2018, 18:00 • Edgardo António Medeiros da Silva

Crisis and change in the US party system.

The ideological basis of the the Democratic and Republican parties. 
The "overload" thesis and the new activism.
Analysis and commentary of Alexis de Tocqueville's "Parties in the US", chap. 10 of Democracy in America (1835).