HIS (0136) 329 - History American Ideas I

Credits: 3

This course traces the origins of crucial American ideas concerning nature, disorder, Native Americans, race, gender, democracy, regionalism, government, slavery, capitalism, territorial expansion. The individuals who popularized these ideas include the Mathers, Franklin, Madison, Douglass, Jefferson, Emerson, Poe, Thoreau, Hawthorne, de Crevecoeur, Crockett, and others.

DistribReqDesc Humanities and Languages

When Offered: Fall