“Defining ‘Americaness’ Part 1” themes, terms, concepts, artists

• Importance of land-mass to “America”

• Landscape and the spiritual shift in the U.S.

• Transcendentalism & Romanticism

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry David Thoreau

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Trumbull’s Niagara Falls

• Thomas Cole’s Niagara Falls, Falls of Kaaterskill, The Course of Empire Series

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