Democracy in America: Alexis DeTocqueville
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 9–12
- Subjects
- social studies (African Americans, American Indians, civics and government, geography, philosophy, religion, United States history, women)
- Provider
- University of Virginia
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Democracy in America is a project of the American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia. In this project, students “take up the task of re-contextualizing Alexis de Tocqueville's famous political and cultural analysis of American democracy.”
The site contains an interactive map of America that is based on Tocqueville's travels, letters and journals, accounts of other foreign visitors, and other artifacts. This website also contains student papers on women's lives during this time period, attitudes toward race, religion, and everyday life. Additionally, there is a section on Tocqueville's America: 1997 that focuses on the recent debate over the status and future of American Associationalism, a distinguishing and necessary feature of American Democracy for Tocqueville.
