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American Studies in China: Old and New Paradigms: 

American Studies in China: Old and New Paradigms Bill V. Mullen

Map of Shifting U.S. Territory: 

Map of Shifting U.S. Territory Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis 1895 “Manifest Destiny” Westward Expansion American Empire

American Indian Tribal Territory: 

American Indian Tribal Territory “Manifest Destiny” and the “Vanishing Indian” American Genocide Trail of Tears Wounded Knee American Indian Movement (AIM)

Asher B. Durand “Pastoral Landscape” 1858: 

Asher B. Durand “Pastoral Landscape” 1858 An example of Henry Nash Smith’s Virgin Land Example of “Myth and Symbol” school pastoralism

Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn 1885: 

Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn 1885 American Pastoral in Literature T.S. Eliot’s “River God” Leo Marx’s Machine in the Garden

American Gothic Grant Wood: 

American Gothic Grant Wood A timeless expression of American Pastoral Wood worked on the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Depression

American Slaves “Tobacco Farming”: 

American Slaves “Tobacco Farming”

Perry Miller : 

Perry Miller Congo “Epiphany” Harvard Ph.D. Founder of American Studies Myth and Symbol School Pioneer The Puritans

Perry Miller Errand Into the Wilderness: 

Perry Miller Errand Into the Wilderness

Playing Indian---Why?: 

Playing Indian---Why? American Colonists dressed as Indians at the Boston Tea Party The Boy Scouts of America dress as Indians Philip Deloria Playing Indian

Martin Luther King: 

Martin Luther King 1968 March on Washington Civil Rights Era “Breaking Apart” of consensus New American Studies Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality

Civil Rights Protest: 

Civil Rights Protest Integrating lunch counters, Greensboro, North Carolina Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Black Nationalism

American Suffrage Movement: 

American Suffrage Movement Marching for the Right to Vote 1920 Second Wave American Feminism “The Personal is Political”

Votes for Women: 

Votes for Women

Angel Island Immigration Station, San Francisco, California: 

Angel Island Immigration Station, San Francisco, California Chinese American Immigration “Gold Mountain” At America’s Gates by Erika Lee What is an American?

Chinese immigrants to Angel Island: 

Chinese immigrants to Angel Island Four days before the Qiqiao Festival,/ I boarded the steamship for America./ Time flew like a shooting arrow./ Already, a cool autumn has passed./ Counting on my fingers, several months have elapsed./ Still I am at the beginning of the road./ I have yet to be interrogated./ My heart is nervous with anticipation. From Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940.