Today's lecture covered Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self Reliance" and Henry David Thoreau's "Walden", which promoted individualism and rejecting conformity to society. It also discussed the Seneca Falls Convention and Sojourner Truth, who advocated for women's rights, as well as Progressive social movements in the late 19th/early 20th century. The lecture provided textual analysis of "Self Reliance" and "Walden" and definitions of abolitionist, sojourner, and suffragette. It contrasted Thoreau's views in "Walden" with capitalist propaganda from 1949 promoting American business superiority.