HIST-4336 (3) Nineteenth-Century American Thought and Culture

Examines the emergence of intellectual traditions and cultural trends in their social and political contexts from the early republic to the beginning of the modern era. Addresses developing arguments about democracy, religion, transcendentalism, gender, race, union/disunion, the Darwinian revolution, utopia/dystopia realism and naturalism in literature and the arts. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.