Print Culture in the Americas

Abstract

This course includes modules discussing the print materials surrounding slavery and abolition, the plagiarism of historical materials, historical advertisements, and the circulation of texts throughout the Americas. It could also supplement sections such as the U.S. Civil War, and the emergence of the U.S. as a world power AP history and literature curricula. The themes of this course include historiography, American diversity, American identity, culture, race relations, reform, globalization, and slavery and its legacies.