Texts and Contexts in Nineteenth Century America

The nineteenth century was critical in the shaping of contemporary United States. The present course looks into those transformations that were brought about by the United States territorial acquisitions, the conquest of the American West, sectional opposition and conflict between the North and the South, The US relationship with the Native americans, and other domestic political and social upheavals of the nineteenth century. The course also tackles the rise of the United States as an industrial and imperial power at the turn of the twentieth century.