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SEA Syllabus Exchange: Syllabi For Graduate Courses

17th-Century Literature: Cultural Contact in the New World Alan Silva (James Madison University)

Aesthetics and The American Founding David J. Carlson (California State University, San Bernardino)

The American Historical Novel William Heath (Hood College)

American Novel and National Identity--Romanticism and Imperialism Lisa Logan (University of Central Florida)

The Atlantic World and Early America Jane T. Merritt (Old Dominion University)

Benjamin Franklin's America Edward Cahill (Fordham University)

Beyond Babel: The Multilingual Literatures of Early America Patrick M. Erben (University of West Georgia)

Early America and Women’s Writings Tamara Harvey (George Mason University)

Early American Discourse and the Fields of English Studies Tom Shields (East Carolina University)

Early American Literatures: The Hemispheric Turn Todd Nathan Thompson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Florida Literature Thomas Hallock (University of South Florida St. Petersburg)

Meta-survey of American Lit, beginnings to 1865 Tim Sweet (West Virginia University)

New World, Ideal World E. Thomson Shields, Jr. (East Carolina University)

Nineteenth-Century American Utopian Fiction Peter Sands (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

North by Southwest: Cultures of Empire in the 19th-Century Western Borderlands Robert Gunn (University of Texas at El Paso)

Salem Witchcraft: Fact & Fiction Reiner Smolinski (Georgia State University)

Scarlet Letters: Puritanism and Anglo-American Literary Culture Beth Bradburn and Scott Slawinski (Western Michigan University)

Science and Public Culture in Early America Tim Sweet (West Virginia University)

Transatlantic English Literature before 1800 Laura Stevens (University of Tulsa)

Transatlantic Studies Philip Gould (Brown University)

Twentieth-Century Literature Encounters Early America Edward M. Griffin (University of Minnesota)

Why Colonial, Whence the Self, How Literature?: Key Questions for an Introduction to Early American Literature for M.A. Students Len von Morze (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Women and Writing in the British Atlantic before 1800 Laura Stevens (University of Tulsa)

Writing Revolution in the British Atlantic World, 1776-1808 Laura Stevens (University of Tulsa)

 

 

 

Sequoyah

Se-quo-yah

R. T. Se-quo-yah. 1838. Published in Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 3 vols., Philadelphia, 1837-1844. Hand-colored lithograph. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

Hannah Foster. The Boarding School

Foster, The Boarding School

[Foster, Mrs. Hannah (Webster)]. The Boarding School: Or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils ... Boston: G. P. Peaslee, 1829. HathiTrust. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

The history of the New-York African free-schools

The history of the New-York African free-schools

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. “The history of the New-York African free-schools, from their establishment in 1787, to the present time…” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1830. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

Specimens of Penmanship

Specimens of Penmanship

Specimens of Penmanship from Writing Schools in Boston, 1748-1782. Cooper, John. Earthly treasure : autograph manuscript, 1771. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Colonial North America at Harvard Library. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.