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Main currents in American thought

by Vernon Louis Parrington

Chapters (54)
  1. Main Currents in American Thought: Foreword 0:00
  2. Introduction [to Volume One: The Colonial Mind] 3:52
  3. Introduction [to Volume One: The Colonial Mind] — Contents [Volume One] 13:50
  4. Introduction [to Volume One: The Colonial Mind] — Book One • Liberalism and Puritanism 13:54
  5. Book One • Liberalism and Puritanism — Part One: The Puritan Heritage • 1620–1660 16:04
  6. Book One • Liberalism and Puritanism — Part Two: the Twilight of the Oligarchy • 1660–1720 3:13:29
  7. Introduction [to Volume One: The Colonial Mind] — Book Two • The Colonial Mind 4:49:29
  8. Book Two • The Colonial Mind — Part One: The Mind in the Making • 1720–1763 4:51:41
  9. Book Two • The Colonial Mind — Part Two: The Awakening of the American Mind • 1763–1783 6:33:13
  10. Book Three: Liberalism and the Constitution • 1783–1800: Part One: The Agrarian Defeat • 1783–1787 9:40:14
  11. Book Three: Liberalism and the Constitution • 1783–1800 — Part Two: Political Democracy Gets Under Way • 1787–1800 11:43:19
  12. Introduction [to Volume One: The Colonial Mind] — Bibliography 14:34:45
  13. The Romantic Revolution in America [Volume Two]: Foreword 14:58:38
  14. The Romantic Revolution in America [Volume Two] — Introduction 15:00:48
  15. The Romantic Revolution in America [Volume Two] — Contents [Volume Two] 15:17:38
  16. The Romantic Revolution in America [Volume Two] — Book One • The Mind of the South 15:17:43
  17. Book One • The Mind of the South — Part One: The Virginia Renaissance 15:20:42
  18. Book One • The Mind of the South — Part Two: The Renaissance of Slavery 17:21:30
  19. Book One • The Mind of the South — Part Three: The Romance of the West 20:19:03
  20. The Romantic Revolution in America [Volume Two] — Book Two • The Mind of the Middle East 21:55:08
  21. The Romantic Revolution in America [Volume Two] — Book Three • The Mind of New England 25:07:31
  22. Book Three • The Mind of New England — Part One: the Twilight of Federalism 25:14:39
  23. Book Three • The Mind of New England — Part Two: The Rise of Liberalism 26:51:30
  24. Book Three • The Mind of New England — Part Three: The Transcendental Mind 29:14:16
  25. Book Three • The Mind of New England — Part IV: Other Aspects of the New England Mind 31:26:30
  26. The Romantic Revolution in America [Volume Two] — Conclusion 32:50:09
  27. The Romantic Revolution in America [Volume Two] — Bibliography 32:53:29
  28. The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America [Volume Three]: Vernon Louis Parrington 33:25:01
  29. The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America [Volume Three] — Foreword 33:52:55
  30. The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America [Volume Three] — Introduction 33:57:31
  31. The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America [Volume Three] — Book One • Changing America 34:11:14
  32. Book One • Changing America — Part One: The Gilded Age 34:16:02
  33. Book One • Changing America — Part One: The Gilded Age (2) 35:48:02
  34. Book One • Changing America — Part One: The Gilded Age (3) 37:51:01
  35. Book One • Changing America — Part One: The Gilded Age (4) 39:09:28
  36. Book One • Changing America — Part Two: New Patterns of Thought 41:10:51
  37. The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America [Volume Three] — Book Two • The Old and the New: Storm Clouds 43:38:12
  38. Book Two • The Old and the New: Storm Clouds — Part One: The Middle Border Rises 43:42:34
  39. Book Two • The Old and the New: Storm Clouds — Part Two: Proletarian Hopes 45:16:53
  40. Addenda: Naturalism in American Fiction 45:57:29
  41. Addenda — Sidney Lanier 46:24:46
  42. Addenda — The Incomparable Mr. Cabell 46:25:35
  43. Addenda — The Problem Novel and the Diversion from Naturalism 46:52:30
  44. Addenda — Jack London: The Novelist of the Proletariat 47:04:43
  45. Addenda — Upton Sinclair 47:06:22
  46. Addenda — Theodore Dreiser: Chief of American Naturalists 47:07:23
  47. Addenda — Sinclair Lewis: Our Own Diogenes 47:19:46
  48. Addenda — Sherwood Anderson: A Psychological Naturalist 47:43:42
  49. Addenda — A New Romance 47:48:31
  50. Addenda — 1917–1924 47:49:53
  51. Addenda — Ole Rölvaag’s “Giants in the Earth” 48:21:53
  52. Addenda — The Short Story 48:44:17
  53. Addenda — A Chapter in American Liberalism 48:52:15
  54. Addenda — Bibliography 49:21:08
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49 hr 46 min
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English
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October 22, 2026
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