HIST 365

Spring 2023

Part of Term 1
Jan 17-May 3
Fict & Historical Imagination
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Credit: 3 hours.

Explores the relationship between history and fiction by focusing on specific cultural locations.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
65472
Lecture-Discussion
A
1:00PM -1:50PM
MWF
307 Gregory Hall
Toups, E
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/17/23-05/03/23
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Description: The frontier occupies a prominent place in America's mythology. From The Last of the Mohicans to Zorro and John Wayne, this frontier mythology filled with gunslingers and rugged individualism, deeply embedding the “Wild West” within the national psyche and media culture. This popular mythology obscures a far more interesting, troubled, and contentious history that defines North America to this day. Borderlands were defined by fluidity, resistance, and uncertainty. The weakness and insecurity of nations and empires in the borderlands created space for people of different classes, races, and ethnicities to challenge imperial ambitions and propose alternate futures. Furthermore, all iterations of the borderlands were informed by previous iterations, including fictional iterations inspired by past frontier experiences. This course aims to unsettle the mythology of a romanticized American expansion by juxtaposing the continent-spanning ambitions and agendas of nations and empires with the complex and dynamic lived experiences of those who inhabited the borderlands.
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