Masculine Heroes | American Passages: Instructor Overview

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Annenberg Annenberg Learner professional development English Language Arts english literature novel literacy fiction poetry American Passages James Fenimore Cooper John Rollin Ridge yellow bird Walt Whitman western expansion manifest destiny American identity Hudson Valley School Thomas Cole western frontier American literature Leather-Stocking Tales Natty Bumppo wilderness Indian Removal Act Leaves of Grass American manhood American heroism American mythology American fables Hawkeye Deerslayer romanticism Cherokee Nation Native American author American Indian Joaquin Murieta Treaty of Guadalupe Mexican American War American railroads poet American poet American literature renaissance democratic heroism American Indians Indigenous Peoples First Nations

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English-Language Arts Professional Development

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Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Post-Secondary

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Masculine Heroes | American Passages: Instructor Overview

This overview of how the writers of 1820 to 1900 expressed American expansion and manifest destiny provides background information for the video Masculine Heroes.

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PBS Learning Media