Unit 5
Masculine Heroes
American Expansion, 1820-1900
Author and Works 243
Overview Questions 243
Learning Objectives 244
Instructor Overview 244
Student Overview 245
Video Overview 246
Discussion Questions for the Video 248
Timeline 248
Author/Text Review 250
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) 250
Teaching Tips 251
Questions 252
Web Archive 252
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) 254
Teaching Tips 255
Questions 256
Web Archive 255
Cherokee Memorials 256
Teaching Tips 257
Questions 258
Web Archive 258
Corridos 259
Teaching Tips 260
Web Archive 260
Questions 261
Caroline Stansbury Kirkland (1801-1864) 262
Teaching Tips 263
Questions 263
Web Archive 263
Louise Amelia Smith Clappe (1819-1906) 264
Teaching Tips 265
Questions 265
Web Archive 265
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) 366
Teaching Tips 367
Web Archive 367
Questions 368
John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird) (1827-1867) 369
Teaching Tips 370
Questions 370
Web Archive 370
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton (c. 1832-1895) 371
Teaching Tips 372
Web Archive 372
Questions 373
Nat Love (1854-1921) 373
Teaching Tips 374
Questions 375
Web Archive 375
Suggested Author Pairings 376
Core Contexts 377
America Unbridled: The Iron Horse and Manifest Destiny 377
Questions 380
Web Archive 380
Competing Claims: The California Gold Rush 381
Web Archive 382
Questions 383
Paradise of Bachelors: The Social World of Men in Nineteenth-Century America 384
Questions 386
Web Archive 386
Extended Contexts 387
Star-Spangled Moccasins: The American Flag in Native American Culture 387
Questions 389
Web Archive 389
Picturing America: The Hudson River School Painters 389
Questions 291
Web Archive 291
Assignments 291
Personal and Creative Responses 291
Problem-Based Learning Projects 292
Glossary 293
Selected Bibliography 294
Further Resources 295