《普通高等教育十一五国家级规划教材:美国文化教程》是一本为高等院校英语专业高年级及研究生课程编写的教材,可以帮助学生在熟练掌握英语语言技能的基础上,涉猎美国文化和历史的重要主题,了解美国人的国民性格、意识形态、价值信仰及其演变,以拓宽学生视野,启发其思考,提高其文化素养,培养其思辨能力,以及综合运用英语进行交际的能力。
- 前言
- Preface
- Introduction
- Unit One The Myth of the New world
- William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation
- John Winthrop A Model of Christian Charity
- Jonathan Edwards Sinner in the Hands ofan Angry God
- William Ellery Channing The Moral Argument agninst Cavinism
- Anne Bradstreet In Memory of My Dear Grandchild
- Verses upon the Burning of Our House
- Unit Two The Myth of Individualism
- Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance
- Christopher Lasch Changing Modes of Making It
- Studs Terkel Stephen Cruz
- Unit Three The Myth of Democracy
- Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Paine Common Sense
- Jean de Crèvecoeur Letters from an American Farmer
- Henry David THoreau On Civil Disobedience
- Carl Schurz Manifest Destiny
- James Langston Hughes Let America Be America Again
- Unit Four The Myth Of Progress
- Frederick Jackson Turner The Significance of the Frontier in American History
- James Fenimore Cooper The Pioneers
- Henry David Thoreau Walden
- John Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes Taling to the Owls and Butterflies
- Susan Criffin Split Culture
- Unit Five The Myth Of Racial Equality (I)
- David Walker Appeal
- Frederick Douglass The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- William Lloyd Garrison Preface to The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Kate Chopin oesiree's Baby
- Unit Six The Myth of Racial Equality (II)
- Leonardo Covello The Heart Is the Teacher
- Malcom X Learning to Read
- Martin Luther King,Jr. Racism and the White Backlash
- Curtis Chang streets of Cold: The Myth of the Model Minority
- Vriginia R.Harris and Trinity A.Ordona Racism and Cross-Racial Hostility
- Aumrora Levins Morales Child of the Americas
- Unit Seven The Myth of Gender Equality (I)
- Abigail Adams Letter to John Adams
- Angelian Grimke Letter to Catharine E.Beecher
- Elizabeth Cady stanton Declaraton of sentiments
- Sojourner Truth Ain'tla Woman?
- Reminiscences
- What Time of Night It Is
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper
- Are Women Human Beings?
- Unit Eight The Myth of Gender Equality (II)
- Betty Friedan The Problem That Has No Name
- judy Syfers Why I Want a Wife
- Kay Boyle Astronomer's Wife
- Paula Gunn Allen Where I Come from Is Like This
- bell hooks Reflections on Race and Sex