"The Many Deaths of General Wolfe"

Image Source: American Heritage (December 1959), p. 26, George Townsend, Portrait of James Wolfe (1759), © McCord Museum of Canadian History, McGill University, Montreal.

Image Source: American Heritage (December 1959), p. 30, Benjamin West, detail from The Death of General Wolfe,© National Gallery of Canada
 
 

Outline:

• discuss Schama, part I. For the outline of the lecture notes on the Schama assignment click here.
• Benjamin West (1770) John Trumbull (1786) paint American heros:
• The New World and the noble savage in West & Trumbull
• review changing concepts of heroes and heroism as they affect the writing of history: see handout article from the Washington Times, April 26, 1992.