Topics in United States Intellectual History
HIST 235
Spring 2010
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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
Daniel Walker Howe, Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford, 2009) 0195387899 & 978-0195387896
Suzanne Marilley, Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism (Harvard University Press, 1997) 0674954653 & 9780674954656
Perry Miller, The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War (Mariner Books, 1970) 0156519909 & 9780156519908
Robert A. Williams, The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourse of Conquest (Oxford, 1992) 019 508 0025 & 9780195080025
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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.. 10:30AM-11:50AM; Location: PAC002; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 40 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 6 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 5 | JR non-major: 5 | SO: 10 | FR: 10 |
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