The New Nation

A survey of the development of American popular culture covers the period from the end of the Revolutionary War through the Western Expansionism movement in the early 19th century.

lie. New. Nation. 12. Visual. Arts. Independence brought a self-awareness not
seen before on the North American continent. Despite their many differences, the
former colonies, at best a loose confederation of states that each promoted its
own regional and secular interests, began to realize that they were now all
Americans. With the emergence of a new nationality came an awareness of the
need to establish a national culture, one that could immortalize, whether it would
be in stone ...