# War & American Society

Photographic detail of monument to black Civil War soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts regiment. (Image courtesy of Daniel Bersak.)

### Instructor(s)

Prof. Christopher Capozzola

### MIT Course Number

21H.223

### As Taught In

Fall 2002

### Level

Undergraduate

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Instructor(s) | Prof.
As Taught In | Spring 2002
Course Number | 2.24
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work

## Course Description

## Course Features

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## Course Description

Writing in the wake of the Civil War, poet Walt Whitman insisted that "the real war will never get in the books." Throughout American history, the experience of war has fundamentally shaped the ways that Americans think about themselves, their fellow Americans, and the meanings of national citizenship. War has also posed challenges of representation, both for those who fought as well as those who did not. This subject examines how Americans have told the stories of modern war in history, literature, and popular culture, and interprets them in terms of changing ideas about American national identity.

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Christopher Capozzola. 21H.223 War & American Society. Fall 2002. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

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