 | Gen. Smedley D. Butler, War
is a Racket |
| *David Brion Davis, "Some
Themes of Countersubversion: An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and
Anti-Mormon Literature" |
| Declaration of
Independence |
| Richard Hofstadter, "The
Paranoid Style in American Politics" (from Harper's magazine,
1964) |
| *John R. Howe, Jr., "Republican Thought and the Political Violence of the 1790s" |
| Marvin Kottmeyer, "The
Saucer Error" |
| Peter Knight, ed., Conspiracy Nation (students
only)
|
| Abraham Lincoln, "House
Divided" speech |
| Jeffrey L. Pasley, "Conspiracy Theory and American
Exceptionalism from the Revolution to Roswell" |
| Jeffrey L. Pasley, Articles
from Peter Knight, ed., Conspiracy Theories in American History: An
Encyclopedia (also available on reserve) |
| Francis Parkman, Excerpts from The Conspiracy of Pontiac |
| Robert Rogers, Ponteach; or the Savages of America |
| *Marshall Smelser, "The
Federalist Period as an Age of Passion" |
| Calvin
Trillin, "The Buffs" |
| *Gordon S. Wood, "Conspiracy
and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century" |
