| 1 |
Introduction - Landscape and its Remaking |
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| 2-3 |
Colonial American Land Use |
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| 4-5 |
Industrial America in the Countryside |
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| 6 |
Places and How We Know Them |
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| 7-8 |
Railroads and Colonization
Film: The Iron Road |
Paper 1 due |
| 9-10 |
Making an Agricultural Landscape
Films: The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River |
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| 11 |
Midterm |
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| 12-13 |
Creating American Parklands |
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| 14 |
Water and the "Hydraulic" Society |
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| 15 |
Film: Cadillac Desert |
Paper 2 due |
| 16 |
Rivers, and What They Are Good For |
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| 17-18 |
Oil, Mining and Energy |
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| 19-20 |
Cities and Growth |
Draft of paper 3 due |
| 21-22 |
The Landscape of Food |
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| 23-24 |
Student Presentations |
Paper 3 due |