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Additional Class Topics
For Further Interest: Additional Class Topics
Chapter 15:
The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790 - 1860
- Use popular contemporary texts like McGuffeys Readers or Godeys
Ladys Book to illuminate early American character and values.
Discuss how the messages that were especially aimed at children
or women reveal prevalent social attitudes, as well as the nature and purposes
of nineteenth-century education.
- Examine the story of the Mormons. In what
way is it an "American" story (individualism, fighting religious persecution,
pioneering)? In what ways is it an "un-American" story (others' intolerance,
communalism, polygamy)?
- Analyze one or more of the utopian communities,
such as the Shaker communes, New Harmony, Oneida, or Brook Farm. Consider
how the success or failure of such efforts should be judged.
- Listen to the music of Stephen Foster.
Compare it to contemporary European music by Beethoven, Brahms, Verdi, and
Wagner. Why the difference?
- Review American works of literature of
this time (Thoreau, Alcott, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville). Find contemporary
European authors and works of literature (Dickens, Hugo, and Dumas). Are the
American works distinct and unique when compared to the European ones?
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