Organized chronologically and with introductions and headlines, this fourth edition offers 21 new documents covering theology, cultural thought, psychology, and race-class-gender theory, as these subjects appeared in the major discourses of their time.

Wright Mills, W.W. Rostow, Ralph Ellison, Noam Chomsky, and Nancy Chodorow.

Preface
PART ONE: TOWARD A SECULAR CULTURE
Introduction
Charles Peirce, "The Fixation of Belief" (1877)
William Dean Howells, "Pernicious Fiction" (1887)
William Graham Sumner, "Sociology" (1881)
Lester Frank Ward, "Mind as a Social Factor" (1884)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "The Solitude of Self" (1892)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Selection from Women and Economics (1898)
Josiah Royce, "The Problem of Job" (1898)
William James, "The Will to Believe" (1897)
Henry Adams, "The Dynamo and the Virgin" (1907)
Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)
George Santayana, "The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy" (1913)
PART TWO: SOCIAL PROGRESS AND THE POWER OF THE INTELLECT
Introduction
William James, "What Pragmatism Means" (1907)
Woodrow Wilson, "The Ideals of America" (1902)
Jane Adams, "The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements" (1892)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Natural Law" (1918)
Thorstein Veblen, Selection from The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
W.E.B. DuBois, "Our Spiritual Strivings" (1903)
John Dewey, Philosophy and Democracy (1918)
Randolph Bourne, "Trans-National America" (1916), "Twilight of Idols" (1917)
H.L. Mencken, "Puritanism as a Literary Force" (1919)
Margaret Mead, Selection from Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)
John Crowe Ransom, "Reconstructed but Unregenerate" (1930)
Sidney Hook, "Communism Without Dogmas" (1934)
PART THREE: TO EXTEND DEMOCRACY AND TO FORMULATE THE MODERN
Introduction
Clement Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (1939)
David Lilienthal, Selection from T.V.A.: Democracy on the March (1944)
Gunnar Myrdal, Selection from An American Dilemma
Reinhold Niebuhr, Selection from The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944)
Lillian Smith, Selection from Killers of the Dream (1949)
Whittaker Chambers, Selection from Witness (1952)
Hannah Arendt, "Ideology and Terror" (1953)
Erik H. Erikson, Selection from Childhood and Society (1950)
John Courtney Murray, Selection from We Hold These Truths (1960)
Lionel Trilling, "On the Teaching of Modern Literature" (1961)
Daniel Bell, "The End of Ideology in the West" (1960)
W.W. Rostow, Selection from The Stages of Economic Growth (1960)
C. Wright Mills, "Letter to the New Left" (1960)
PART FOUR: EXPLORING DIVERSITY AND POSTMODERNITY
Introduction
Thomas S. Kuhn, Selection from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Selection from "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963)
Betty Friedan, Selection from The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Susan Sontag, "Against Interpretation" (1964)
Malcolm X, Selection from "The Ballot or the Bullet" (1964)
Noam Chomsky, "The Responsibilities of Intellectuals" (1967)
Samuel Huntington, Selection from "The Democratic Distemper" (1975)
Ralph Ellison, "The Little Man at Chehaw Station" (1977)
Nancy Chodorow, "Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytic Perspective" (1979)
Richard Rorty, "Science as Solidarity" (1986)
Judith Butler, Selection from Gender Trouble (1990)
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Selection from "In My Father's House (1992)
Chronologies