What are the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship? How do individual American experiences of race, gender, ethnicity, and political affiliation shape or challenge our American identity? What does it mean to be an American? We will investigate these questions in a year-long survey of the history of the United States. Starting with the history of indigenous peoples and concluding with more recent events and trends, you will explore the American experience through critical lenses, such as ideas of liberty and bondage, democracy and republicanism, and identity formation and myth-making. We will use narrative history, documents, contemporary commentary, film, art, and material culture to study our vibrant American experience.