HISTORY 163 - Inventing the Self in Early America

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

American Studies This course examines how a disparate cast of people-from famous Americans such as Benjamin Franklin, Mary Rowlandson, and Frederick Douglass to long-forgotten figures such as Andrew Montour, Stephen Arnold, and Hannah Bernard-constructed personal identities in the messy world of early American history. Students explore the processes of personal identity formation, question the degree of flexibility people had in making their selves, and work to connect these individual actors to larger changes in racial, gendered, and national identities. Course work includes autobiographical writings, visual images, and some secondary historical essays.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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