Bellwrite: What are your personal frontiers?
We collected the Promised Land assignment and discussed insights from it. Then we continued our discussion of frontiers from yesterday. We first summarized our take-aways from the discussion yesterday. Then we considered the arguments of some American landscape painting from the 19th Century including the following:
"Looking Down Yosemite Valley" by Bierstadt
"Emigrants Crossing the Plain" by Bierstadt
"A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie" by Bierstadt
"American Progress" by John Gast
We read an excerpt from Frederick Jackson Turner's essay, 'The Significance of the Frontier in American History."
We considered the concept of Manifest Destiny and Jefferson's concept of an "Empire of Liberty." We saw that this ideal carried through into Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address."
Homework: Read the excerpt from Undaunted Courage.
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