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National Imagination: US Cultural History and the Myths of ‘America’</title>al<para>In this seminar we will engage decisive moments and core issues in US cultural and political history by asking for how they have shaped, or expressed, American national (self-)perceptions. Doing so will not only allow us to work on a deeper understanding of the cultural history of the United States, or to engage both the myths of American and the contradictions and tensions they entail. On a methodological level it will allow us to practice the kind of interdisciplinary inquiry that has been, and continues to be, a hallmark of American studies.