North America and the United States to 1865

1 Unit · Undergraduate

The setting: North America, 1400 to 1865. The characters: Indigenous, African, European, Asian, and their descendants; enslaved, free, and in-between; genders of all kinds. The plot: full of tragedy and triumph and terror and twists, including the surprising emergence of the United States, the world?s first modern republican empire, trumpeting inalienable rights and the pursuit of happiness while spreading slavery.