Seminar: American Civilization on the American Broadcasting Network records, 1952-1953

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Series I: Seminar Programs:, 1952



Box 1 Newspaper and magazine clippings, October 1952


Box 1 Civilization on Trial, Arnold J. Toynbee,, October 4, 1952


Box 1 Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Frederic Engels,, October 11, 1952


Box 1 Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud,, October 18, 1952


Box 1 The City of God, St. August ine and Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin,, October 25, 1952


Box 1 Treatise of Civil Government, John Locke,, November 1, 1952


Box 1 Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, November 8, 1952


Box 1 The Bloudy Tenet of Persecution, Roger Williams and The Day of Doom, Michael Wigglesworth,, November 15, 1952


Box 1 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin , November 22, 1952


Box 1 Declaration of Independence and Selections of the Letters of Thomas Jefferson,, November 29, 1952


Box 1 Letters from an American Farmer, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur,, December 6, 1952


Box 1 The Federalist, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison,, December 13, 1952


Box 1 Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, December 20, 1952


Box 1 A Disquisition of Government, John C. Calhoun,, December 27, 1952

Series II: Seminar Programs:, 1953


Box 1 Moby Dick, Herman Melville, January 3, 1953


Box 1 Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe,, January 10, 1953


Box 1 Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville,, January 17, 1953


Box 1 Review by Home Viewers, January 24, 1953


Box 1 Review of the First Semester of "American Civilization,", January 31, 1953


Box 1 Democratic Vistas, Walt Whitman, February8, 1953


Box 1 The Gospel of Wealth, Andrew Carnegie, February15, 1953


Box 1 The American, Henry James, February22, 1953


Box 1 What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, William Graham Sumner,, March1, 1953


Box 1 Progress and Poverty, Henry George, March8, 1953


Box 1 Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy, March15, 1953


Box 1 Pragmatism, William James, March22, 1953


Box 1 The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffans , March29, 1953


Box 1 The Education of Henry Adams¸ Henry Adams,, April 12, 1953


Box 1 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot,, April 19, 1953


Box 1 Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis, April 28, 1953


Box 1 1919, John Dos Passos, May 3, 1953


Box 1 TVA: Democracy on the March, David Lilienthal,, May 10, 1953


Box 1 A Philosophy of Labor, Frank Tannenbaum, May 17, 1953


Box 1 Art and Technics, Lewis Mumford, May 24, 19853