Exploring America

Undergraduate credit

A study of the exploration of the Anglo-American world through 1849. Examines entry, migration, and colonization of North America. Topics include war, empire, captivity, trade, science, persistent illusion, and the pursuit of individual liberty. It focuses on English and U.S. encounters with Europeans and indigenous cultures. Explorers covered are John Smith, Juan de Onate, the Sieur de la Verendrye, Daniel Boone, Conrad Weiser, Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike and John Fremont. Effort is made to recover individual imagination in maps and "native voices" in narratives.