19th Century U.S. Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies Course Syllabi
History & American Studies Courses
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American History to 1877 Gary Kornblith (Oberlin College)
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American Legal
History II-- the 19th Century Sally Hadden (Florida State University)
- Red, White, and Black: The People of North America, United States History to 1877 James Oberly (University of Wisconsin, Eau Clair)
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Colloquium in U.S. History Since 1865 William A. Link (University of North Carolina at
Greensboro). Graduate level historiography survey.
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American
Civilization 1
David Stowe (Doshisha University, Japan)
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American
Civilization 2
David Stowe (Doshisha University, Japan)
- The
American Experience, 1607-1865
(University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa)
- The
American Experience, 1865-1970
(University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa)
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American
Studies: Culture, Values, and Traditions
Howard Wach (Herbert Lehman College, City University of New York)
- Visions
of American Society
John Andrew (Franklin and Marshall College)
- American
Civilization I
Randy Bass & Hugh Cloke (Georgetown University)
- American
Civilization II
Hugh Cloke & Elizabeth McKeown (Georgetown University)
- American
Civilization III
Ed Ingebretsen & Elizabeth McKeown (Georgetown University)
- Society
and Culture in America
Nancy Page Fernandez (Brown University)
- Introduction
to American Studies
Michael Steiner (California State Universtiy, Fullerton)
- American
Values and Institutions II
Park Goist (Case Western Reserve University)
- Introduction
to American Studies
Patricia Hunt-Perry (Ramapo College of New Jersey)
- The
American Experience, 1607-1865
(University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa)
- The
American Experience, 1865-1980
(University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa)
- Introduction
to American Studies
John Kasson (University of North Carolina)
- American
Culture Through Music
Daniel Czitrom (Mount Holyoke College)
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American
Thought David Stowe (Doshisha University, Japan)
- Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1917 K. Austin Kerr (Ohio State)
- American Society and Government, 1877-1917 Ballard Campbell (Northeastern)
- Gilded Age America: 1865-1900 Bill Cecil-Fronsman (Washburn University)
- History of the United States, 1877-1916 Robert Cherny (San Francisco SU)
- State and Society in Victorian America Richard R John (U.Chicago)
- The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1917 K. Austin Kerr (Ohio State)
Literature, Art and Culture Courses
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Native American Literature Laura Arnold (Reed College). Course includes focus on Northwest Indian writers.
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American Literature to 1865 Tom Scanlan & Matt Kirschenbaum (TA) (University of Virginia)
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American Renaissance, 1830-65 John Getz, Xavier University (Cincinnati)
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Early American Literature Survey Carolyn Karcher (Temple University)
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Topics in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, 1870-1920: Cultural Geographies of American Realism, Naturalism, and Regionalism Eric Anderson (University of Pennsylvania)
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Century's End: Race and Gender at the Turn of the Century Shelley Fisher Fishkin (University of Texas, Austin)
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American Literature: Civil War to 1900 Robert M. Hogge (Weber State University)
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Black Women's Narrative from Slavery to the Harlem
Renaissance Heather Hathaway (Marquette University)
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Meditations on History: Black Women, Writing and Slavery Farah J. Griffin (University of Pennsylvania)
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African-American Autobiography
William L. Andrews (University of Kansas)
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Print, Literacy and
Power: To 1900 Mary Kay Duggan (UC Berkeley). Course explores the ethnic
and racial dimensions of the frontier conflict between oral and print cultures
in the American West.
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American
Writing in Cultural Context, 1820-1840
John Blair (University of Geneva)
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Women
and Art at the Turn of the Century
John Davis (Smith College)
- Seminar:
Time, Work, Leisure
David Nye (Odense University-Denmark)
- Tricksters
of North America
Kenneth Pimple (University of Indiana, Bloomington)
- Contact
Zones in American Thought & Language
Christopher Felker (Michigan State University)
- The
Invention of Heterosexuality
Jesse Berrett (University of California, Berkeley)
- "Whiteness"
and Racial Difference
Peter Schmidt (Swarthmore College)
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