Sumários

Revisions of the semester's work. Feedback from students and evaluation marks for tasks so far.

20 Dezembro 2018, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Revisions of the semester's work. 

US ideology and poetry: Emily Dickinson, Emma Lazarus, Stephen Crane.
Feedback from students and evaluation marks for tasks so far.

Historiographic sources for America from colonial times to the 19th Century. Henry Adams and the Gilded Age.

18 Dezembro 2018, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Invited Professor Edgardo M. Silva.
Historiographic sources for America from colonial times to the 19th Century. 
Henry Adams and the Gilded Age.

Peer-editing and revision of final paper drafts.

13 Dezembro 2018, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

First part: Instruction and mock paper with criticism by the teacher.

Second part: Peer editing and revision of final paper drafts.

The New West: the golden promise and its darker side.

11 Dezembro 2018, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the American Frontier"

http://historyus19.blogspot.com/2018/12/hw-for-december-11-frederick-jackson.html - work presentation.
Relation with poem "O Pioneers" by Walt Whitman. 
Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: US popular culture and the spectacle of heroism.

Walt Whitman; Democratic Vistas. The Beginning of the Gilded Age

6 Dezembro 2018, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Walt Whitman: Democratic Vistas. 

Work presentation.
The New South, the New West and the Gilded Age.
Comments on Whitman.