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Jan 20, 2025
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ARHI 813 - The Sea in American History3 credits
Before the frontier dominated national development and the national imagination, there was the sea. The Atlantic in particular engrossed the lives of all who touched its waters. Portuguese fishermen off the Grand Banks in the 16th century, enslaved Africans on the Middle Passage, Puritan colonists to New England, indentured servants buying passage with their time, pirate-infested coastal waters, the Tripolitan War —these were some significant shapers of America’s economic, social, cultural and political life. Students consider the history of the American encounter with the sea, along with its impact on American literary and artistic imagination. Readings may include Melville’s Moby Dick (1852), Paul Gilje’s Liberty on the Waterfront (1996), Linda Greenlaw’s The Hungry Ocean, Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea (2001), and more.
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