Ideas for Instructor’s Assignments

Ideas for Instructor’s Assignments

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American Culture
The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940
The Revolt of Modern Youth (first published in 1928)

  • “We are a race of children” (14)
  • “. . . Fear is the root cause of the anti-social conduct of all modern Youth today” (109)
  • “. . . if Fear is the cause of most wrongdoing, it follows that COURAGE is the most fundamental of all the virtues, and is indeed the virtue which makes all other virtues possible” (109)

The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character

Nature

In Search of Nature
Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas
Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement
The Control of Nature