This course is a reading and writing seminar on the historical relationship between human beings and nature in the United States. The central objective is to explore the varied and changing relations Americans have held with the landscapes they inhabited. Focusing on the past three centuries, we will investigate how humans have used, imagined, and remade this land, and in the process, ourselves. For history majors, this class could substitute for one of the US History survey courses for the major. Print-Friendly Page (opens a new window)