2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
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2024-2025 Academic Catalog

HIST 145 - US History and the Novel

Is it possible to tell the history of nineteenth-century America in five novels? What historical truths does fiction reveal? This course seeks to answer these questions by considering works of fiction as archives and agents of cultural, social, and political transformation. Whether reading Harriet Beecher Stowe’s domesticated condemnation of slavery in her best-selling Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Herman Melville’s satirical exploration of identity and trust in his flop The Confidence-Man, or James Weldon Johnson’s realist explication of the color line in his genre-bending The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, students will learn to approach imaginative literature from a historical perspective and to discern the insights of writers who documented and shaped the making of modern America.

Course Designation/Attribute: HP

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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