HIST2412 · History

The Pacific Northwest

Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences

This course explores a region defined as today including the American states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, plus the Canadian province and territory of British Columbia and the Yukon. Themes include Indigenous culture: Euro-American colonization; tensions between natural resource extraction and environmental preservation; labor and immigration; race relations; the emergence of United States and Canada as the region's two nation-states; the relationship of this region with its federal governments and national economies. There will be particular attention to the role of arrivals from New England in tying the Northwest to the East Coast of North America.