Introduction: Gesturing Towards Freedom

Unit I: Monumental Declarations

• 1.1: 1776
• 1.2: Operatic Declarations
• 1.3: Tense Declarations

Unit II: Powerful Gestures

• 2.1: Moving with the Constitution
• 2.2: Choreographing Presidency: Dance of the Executive Branch of the Constitution
• 2.3: Persuasive Bodies: Intersections of Dance and Law in the United States

Unit 3: Choreographic Meaning-Making

• 3.1: Republic of the Common Good
• 3.2: Dramatizing Politics
• 3.3: John Jay, An Abolitionist

Unit 4: Dancing the Conflict

• 4.1: Lamenting Destiny
• 4.2: Moving with the Emancipation Proclamation
• 4.3: A Good Man: Wartime Proclamations and the Arts

Unit 5: Dancing Dreams

• 5.1: Dreams of the Mountaintop: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
• 5.2: Reorienting Time Across the Sacred, the Secular, and the Patriotic
• 5.3: Sermonic Deconstructions in Bondage: The Iconic "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Epilogue: A Word on Plié