HISTORY 130 - Origins of the American Citizen

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Bard College

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American Studies, Human Rights, SRE The United States is often portrayed as emerging triumphantly in 1776 to offer inclusive citizenship and a transcendent, tolerant, "American"identity to all its indigenous and immigrant residents. Yet the reality of American history belies this myth. That history is transnational, yet most narratives focus on its Anglophone roots, ignoring the fact that the "U.S." was carved outof the contests of many empires and grew on internationally based forced labor regimes. This course focuses on six moments that definitively challenged and shaped conceptions of "American identity," "citizen," and "the United States": early colonial period, the Constitutional Convention, Cherokee Removal, the era of internal slave trade and the "Market Revolution," theMexican-AmericanWar, and Reconstruction.

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4.00

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Lecture

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www.bard.edu

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(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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