The Civil War and Reconstruction

HIS 354 The Civil War and Reconstruction McAfee
Lectures:
Topic: Why Men Fought In Civil War?
U.S.Map, in 1860
moral suasion, Antislavery Violence
Wilmot Proviso
Lecompton Constitution
Gary Gallagher, Dred Scott Case, from "American Civil War" (IIE)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Election of 1860
Slavery of Union War Aims
Crittenden Compromise
Fort Sumter, from Boston Daily
Crittenden Resolution
The 1st and 2nd Confiscation Act an controverscial view
Lincoln's Emancipation and Civil Liberties
Lincoln and Emacipation(on the Border States) a controverscial view
Lincoln's 'Second American Revolution' (Infringements)
Ex Parte Milligan
Ex Parte Merryman
Clement Vallandigham
Politics: Why the Confederacy Was Not Ready for War?
Summary, Civil War and Reconstruction
The Election of 1864
The Unpopular Lincoln: Lyman Trumbull
The Democratic Convention: Atlanta and the Election of 1864
George B. McClellan
Copperheads, Clement Vallandigham, Abraham Lincoln, John C. Fremont
Contra View, on the Election of 1864: Senator S.C.Pomeroy of kansas David Farragut at New Orleans
The Presidential Leaderships of Abraham Lincoln an contraverscial view
William Seward

John Wilkes Booth
Charles Summer
President Jefferson Davis
Zebulon Vance
Alexander Stephens
Conscription Act
Benjamin Butler
The Origions of the Civil War Conflict
20 Nigger Law
Desertion in The Civil War Armies
Racial Construction
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Did Lincoln Really Free the Salves?
So You Think Lincoln As An Hero
William Tecumseh Sherman
minie ball
Clausewitiz in America, Antoine Henry de Jomini and Darl von Clausewits
Manassas Junction
The 1st and 2nd Bull Run, the First and the Second Bull Run
Winfield Scott
Don Carlos Buell
Henry Halleck
Ulysses S. Grant
Irvin McDowell
The War Itself
Battle of Shiloh
Pierreg T. Beauregard
Jozeph Sohnstorz

Midterm:
Essay topics
041405 041705 042005 042005b 042105
051805 051805-- 051905 052205 052405 052505 052605
Reference:

William E. Gienapp, Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: Biography. Biography of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address.
Charles Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissiones and the Causes of the Civil War.

"Address of Andrew Picken Calhoun", Commissioner from South Carolian. John Caldwell Calhoun.
"Chapter 1" and "What Does the Confederate Flag Stand For?"

William E. Gienapp, Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collection. John Brown. Jefferson Davis.
Drew Gilpin Faust, The Creation of Confederate Nationalism. General Robert E. Lee's Farewell Address, 1865.
James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men fought in the Civil War. David Gergen, "Why Fight?": An Interview to James M. McPherson.
Richard N. Current, Lincoln and The First Shot. p.161, Fort Sumter
Eric Foner, Nothing But Freedom. Bruce Clayton, "Freedom Wears Many Hats". Joshua Tanzer, "Eric Foner on Freedom".

Other References:

William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856

The War: "The Crossroads of Our Being" and Civil War related topics
Handouts:
Sessions A B
Timeline: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Song I 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 about Dixieland 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Song II