LibGuides: Humanities Symposium 2020: "The American Dream": Getting Started

Schedule of Activities

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Citation:

Hughes, Langston. "Dreams." Poets.org, Academy of America Poets, https://poets.org/poem/dreams.

Jumpstarting America: how breakthrough science can revive economic growth and the American dream by Jonathan Gruber; Simon Johnson
Publication Date: 2019-04-09
The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.
The New Better Off: reinventing the American dream by Courtney E. Martin
Publication Date: 2016-09-13
The New Better Off puts a name to the American phenomenon of rejecting the traditional dream of a 9-to-5 job, home ownership, and a nuclear family structure,illuminating the alternate ways Americans are seeking happiness and success.
Hidden Figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space.