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American Studies 302 Optional Readings and Related Sites

Week 1: Introduction to Material Culture Studies Week 2: Objects as Evidence

Week 3: The Meanings of Space

Week 4: Textiles and Silver in Early American Life

Week 5: Mannerism and the Baroque: Colonial Furniture

OBJECT STUDY DUE

Week 6: Foodways in Colonial New England

Week 7: Neoclassicism and the New Nation: Material Life in the Federal Era.

Week 8: Interpreting a Household in Jacksonian Deerfield.

Week 9: Tradition and Change in Mid-Nineteenth Century Architecture

Week 10: Social Meanings in Furniture

Week 11: The Revival of Arts and Crafts

Week 12: Shaping the Land

Week 13: The New England Way of Death


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