Book:
American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction
by Eric Avila
Chapter
Book:
American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction
by Eric Avila
Chapter 2 of our textbook and our videos this week are full of information about American cultural history. Your main posting this week is a five-paragraph essay about an article that you find in our university library’s online databases.
Find an article about one of the topics in our readings or films. Proquest and Lexis-Nexis are good databases for articles, but there are many other good databases, too. Our library databases also help you cite sources. For this assignment, you need to provide a reference for your source in APA format. So, be sure to look for the APA reference/citation in the library database to help you. Or, our “Toolbox” button on the left side of the screen has a link to Purdue University’s OWL resources if you need help with APA references. Some students find the CitationMachine website to be helpful in formatting a reference. There is a link to CitationMachine in the Toolbox, also.
Then, write your essay based on the format you learned about in our learning module this week. Be sure to edit and proofread your short essay before posting it to our weekly discussion board as your new thread for the week.
A tip: If you copy and paste your essay from your word processor into Blackboard, then it is easier for your classmates to access and you might get more replies. This is why it is better to copy and paste your main posting rather than attaching a file.
The parts of your new discussion thread:
A subject line that describes your new thread.
The APA-formatted reference for your article.
An introductory paragraph, including a thesis statement.
Three main paragraphs, each with an important point and supporting details/evidence/examples.
A concluding paragraph.
A subject line, an APA-formatted reference of the article, and five separate paragraphs.
Check the discussion rubric if you aren’t sure what a good discussion posting looks like. This rubric is in Part II of our syllabus. Remember to have all required parts for this po
Here are some people, topics, and key terms from Chapter 2 to help guide your reading and discussions:
Washington, D.C.
Greco-Roman design
Neoclassicism
Gothic Revival
Romanticism
Edgar Allen Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Washington Irving
William Cullen Bryant
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Respectability
Godley’s Ladies Book
Etiquette manuals
Domesticity
Antebellum
The Bowery
Working-class theater
Age of the Common Man
Egalitarian
Minstrel shows
Jim Crow
Blackface
Astor Place Riot
Penny Press
Helen Jewett
P.T. Barum
Humbug
The American Museum
Freak shows
Southern honor
African American folktales
James Fenimore Cooper
Leatherstocking Tales
George Catlin
Charles Bird King
Manifest Destiny
California gold rush