HIST 493ST: History of the U.S. West

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Advanced reading, lecture, and asynchronous discussion course exploring the history of Euro-American conquest, colonization, settlement, and mythologization of the United States West from Indigenous North America to the twenty-first century. Topics include Native American sovereignty and pre-colonial geography; New Spain and U.S.-Mexico borderlands; settler colonialism and the frontier "thesis;" public lands and homesteading; territories and states; natural resource extraction and infrastructure development; immigration and labor; (sub)urbanization; militarization; and political extremism.