The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2008English
About this course
This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877. The primary goal of the course is to understand the multiple meanings of a transforming event in American history. Those meanings may be defined in many ways: national, sectional, racial, constitutional, individual, social, intellectual, or moral.
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