HIST 3430 - [History of the Civil War and Reconstruction]

(crosslisted) AMST 3430
(HB) (HA-AS)

Spring. Next Offered: 2019-2020. 4 credits. Student option grading.

E. Baptist.

A survey of the turning point of US. history: The Civil War (1861-1865) and its aftermath, Reconstruction (1865-1877). We will look at the causes, the coming, and the conduct, of the war, and the way in which it became a war for freedom. We will then follow the cause of freedom through the greatest slave rebellion in American history, and the attempts by formerly enslaved people to make freedom real in Reconstruction. And we will see how Reconstruction’s tragic ending left questions open that are still not answered in U.S. society and politics.