HIS 121 Cultivating the Wilderness: North America 1400-1865
This course examines American history from 1400-1850 with a special focus on the interaction between Indigenous, European, and African people. Using the construction of the categories of “Wilderness” and “Civilization,” this class will consider how ideas about nature and the built environment drove the creation of the United States and western expansion, laid the groundwork for modern conceptions of race, and transformed the landscape of North America.