Topics in United States Intellectual History
HIST 235
Spring 2009
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 236 |
Using a history-of-ideas approach, this course examines the major intellectual formulations defining the United States from the colonial to the progressive era. These include such ideas as exceptionalism, Puritanism, republicanism, race, manifest destiny, evangelical revivalism, Victorian domestic/gender roles, and social/moral reformism. The rupture (and later reconciliation) that emerged in the wake of the Civil War will also be examined. The course will attempt to illustrate the way in which the self-conception of the United States was initially instituted and reproduced and how such a model of identity has had tremendous triumphs as well as profoundly tragic consequences. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST)(HIST-MN) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Sacvan Bercovitch, THE PURITAN ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN SELF
Jack Greene, THE INTELLECTUAL CONTRUCTION OF AMERICA: EXCEPTIONALISM AND IDENTITY
Reginald Horsman, RACE AND MANIFEST DESTINY
Drew McCoy, THE ELUSIVE REPUBLIC
Robert Wiebe, THE SEARCH FOR ORDER
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Examinations and Assignments:
Three short essays, a mid-term examination and a final examination. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course may be repeated for credit a second time so long as the selected topic for the semester is different each time. |
| Instructor(s): Eudell,Demetrius L. Times: ..T.R.. 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: FISK210; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 40 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 8 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 5 | JR non-major: 5 | SO: 10 | FR: 10 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 9 | 1st Ranked: 1 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 6 |
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