Advanced Seminar: Visual Culture and American History

3 units

How does United States history look different with visual culture at the center of the story? Focusing on the nineteenth century in particular, this course investigates how images and other visual objects did not simply reflect, but also shaped society, culture, politics, ideas and identities. The course moves from the Revoltion to the mass-culture society of the early twentieth century. During this period, American experienced a litany of profound transformations in the growth of cities to the emancipation of slaves.