Examines the place of the frontier in US history. Beginning with the E uropean colonization of the Americas, the course covers a wide range of both literal frontiers (the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the American W west,and outer space) and conceptual ones ( mineral frontiers, technol ogical frontiers, historiographic frontiers). It culminates in a historiographic essay that addresses the role of frontiers in a field or topic of the student's choice.