American Conservatism, 1900-1930

Joseph Postell is associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Colorado SpringsJohnathan O’Neill is professor of history at Georgia Southern University

• Chapter One: The Foundations of Constitutional Conservatism1.From Experiments in Government and the Essentials of the Constitution: Elihu Root2.Human Nature in the Constitution: David Jayne Hill3.Our Charter of Law and Liberty: David Jayne Hill4.The Inspiration of the Declaration: Calvin CoolidgeChapter Two: Tradition, Culture, Civilization, and Progress5.The Supports of Civilization: Calvin Coolidge6.Education: The Cornerstone of Self-Government: Calvin Coolidge7.Principle or Expedient?: George Sutherland8.The New American Revolution: Nicholas Murray ButlerChapter Three: Natural Rights and Human Nature9.The Progress of a People: Calvin Coolidge10. Address at the Celebration of the Semicentennial of the City of Birmingham, Alabama: Warren Harding11.The Revolt of the Unfit: Some Reflections on the Doctrine of Evolution : Nicholas Murray Butler12.Comments on Herbert Spencer’s “The Great Political Superstition”: Nicholas Murray Butler13.Commentary on Herbert Spen

“With familiar notions of political ‘conservatism’ now coming apart at the seams, it is a good time to think about those who laid much of the groundwork for it a century ago. Who better than Professors O’Neill and Postell to re-introduce us to those men and their ideas?”