The American Idea

Catalog description

Surveys central themes in American History, focusing on four pivotal periods. It examines the making and meaning of America as a nation. Four units Liberty, Freedom, Justice, and Equality, probe ideas essential to American identity, and trace the changing and colliding meanings and definitions of the American Idea. Relies heavily on primary sources, essays, treatises, novels, legal cases, images, films, and much more; and strives to come to an original understanding of these texts and their place in American culture.