The American Conscience

The writers who held America to its own promises — Thoreau, Douglass, Du Bois, and the long tradition of patriotic dissent.

A nation arguing with itself

In this collection

• Samooborona
• The Decline of the Graces
• Christianity and the Survival of Creation
• An Inquiry into the Accordancy of War with the Principles of Christianity
• A Point of View
• Maternity
• The Professional Wanderer
• The Ingenious Patriot
• The Poetry of the Revolution
• Christian Iconolatry and the Perils of the Iconoclast
• Brickdust Row
• Crime, Its Cause and Treatment
• Charlie Fisher
• Cope Makes a Sunday Afternoon Call
• In the Study
• The Shepherd who Watched by Night
• Rulers of Kings
• Enoch Dunlap
• The Bigot
• La Morillonne
• The Houses
• The Malcontents
• Kenelm Chillingly Book V
• The "Free" Press
• The Sequel to "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

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