HIST 263 - S/U/The Civil War and Reconstruction Era: 1830-1890

2020-2021 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History

A study of the causes and course of the American Civil War and subsequent Reconstruction with an emphasis on the political and cultural aspects and implications. Primary interest will be in examining how the problem of slavery led to war and how emancipation shaped post-war America. Topics include slavery, abolitionism, partisan politics, sectionalism, soldiering, freedom and citizenship, the establishment of a free labor economy, the foundations of a biracial democracy, terrorism, the role of violence in politics, and contested memories of the war.

Offered: Not on a regular basis
Program Attribute: HAMR