Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Life Stories in America, 1730-1830
Term
2019C
Syllabus URL
Syllabus
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
301
Section ID
HIST231301
Course number integer
231
Meeting times
R 01:30 PM-04:30 PM
Meeting location
COLL 311A
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Robert St.George
Description
This seminar explores the social and cultural history of early 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. As we critically 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, and why.
Course number only
231
Use local description
Yes
LPS Course
false
Major Concentrations
Major/Minor Requirements Fulfilled