HS 426 - Propaganda, Culture, and American Society: 1780-1830

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. An engagement in popular history and culture from 1780 to 1830, a period commonly known as the Early Republic or the New Nation. It examines a wide range of sources (newspapers and magazines, posters, memoirs, sermons, art, ads, and literature) which reflect the major issues of this period, such as the Constitution; American westward expansion; the "Indian problem"; industrialization and the market revolution; transcendentalism; immigration and the making of the working class; as well as the role of race and gender in the formation of an American character. It also addresses the process of opinion repetition, the formation and function of stereotypes, and the reproduction of ideology. IU