In this course, we will study some of the many ways diverse Americans have envisioned the end (of the world; of their world; of America) and what those visions might teach us about them and the America they inhabited. We’ll consider disaster movies and settler colonialism, punk and the Bible, the Bomb, space travel, and slave revolts, asking along the way: What can the imagined futures of yesterday tell us about the hopes and fears of previous generations? In what ways are social, political, racial, or economic structures of difference reflected in various visions of apocalypse?