Status
O
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Life Stories in America, 1730-1830
Term
2020C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
401
Section ID
HIST242401
Course number integer
242
Registration notes
Crse Online: Sync & Async Components
Meeting times
T 01:30 PM-04:30 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Robert St.George
Description
This seminar explores the social and cultural history of America by focusing on the lives of specific individuals, ranging from Jesuit priests in early Quebec to Philadelphia politicians to Saramaka slaves to Maine midwives. One of the people in Philadelphia who we will discuss is Benjamin Franklin, Penn's founding father. As we examine biography and autobiography as two of history's most powerful narrative frames, we will concentrate on the spaces and places in the social landscape that shaped individual understandings of work, sense of self, gender, beliefs, and political power.
Course number only
242
Cross listings
ENGL242401
Use local description
No
LPS Course
false