Unit+I+-+Thinking+on+History+and+America

Unit I: Thinking About History

=**__Blink and Thin Slicing__**=

“'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking' by Malcolm Gladwell: Experiences, environment influence first impressions, snap decisions” Sunday, January 23, 2005, By Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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“'Blink': Hunch Power” by David Brooks, January 16, 2005 []

=**__What Historians Do__**= Sean Wilentz, "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson" -

=__**Freedom and Liberty**__=

Thinking - Thin and Thick-Slicing

=__The American Dream__=

Wikipedia entry - []

"The American Wanderer, in All His Stripes" - by Michael Powell, August 23, 2008 -

__Religion and the American Dream__

Faith and America - Assignment 

=Stephen Prothero - Religious Literacy Quiz= =Go to[]= = Scroll down three-quarters of the way and click on “Test Your Religious IQ” = = The quiz is also at: []=

Robert Bellah - Civil Religion



"City on a Hill", by Patrick Allitt - Review of Garry Wills book, //Head and Heart//, December 9, 2007, NY Times,

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=Religion in Contemporary America =