HIST-341 Topic: Studies in Early American History
Topic for Spring 2023: Culture and Community in Early America. This historiographical course focuses on one of the central questions of American history: How did migration to America affect the cultural and social values and practices of migrant peoples? We will concentrate on peoples from Europe and Africa who came to North America, both willingly and unwillingly, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. To what extent did transplantation result in cultural persistence and change? How have historians explained the processes of acculturation and identity formation?
Writing-Intensive (18)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
One 200-level course in American history or consent of instructor