How did the institutions and values between the environment and Americans shape various groups in North America?
Let's be honest: you're not going start a successful salmon-fishing charter company in the middle of Nebraska.
The United States is a region gifted with bountiful natural resources, from the rich coal seams of Appalachia to the (once) endless herds of buffalo on the Great Plains. These environmental riches and geographical advantages have helped to shape American history in many ways, and one of the themes of this course will be to explore the ways in which different groups have been affected by their location and their relationship with the environment around them.
The United States is a region gifted with bountiful natural resources, from the rich coal seams of Appalachia to the (once) endless herds of buffalo on the Great Plains. These environmental riches and geographical advantages have helped to shape American history in many ways, and one of the themes of this course will be to explore the ways in which different groups have been affected by their location and their relationship with the environment around them.