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For students interested in how we record and remember the past, both individually and collectively, the Writing Program offers a range of seminars on these themes.

Topics offered in this area include:

  • American Environmental History
  • American Manifesto
  • Beyond Night: Elie Wiesel
  • Business in US Culture
  • Democratic Erosion
  • Education and Work
  • Ethical Missteps/Public Health
  • Imagining Vietnam
  • Lincoln & His Legacies
  • Memoir as Art Form
  • The Graphic Memoir
  • The Language of Identity
  • Attention/Distraction
  • Marijuana in American History
  • Medical Debates
  • Who Owns the Past Now?
  • Zionism and the Jewish State