History 266 - THE AGE OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

Origins, course and consequences of the war of 1861-65. Major topics include the politics and experience of slavery; African American activism and resistance; abolitionism; gender and power; ideologies of race; the role of African Americans in ending slavery; the making of Union and Confederate myths; Reconstruction; white Americans' final abandonment of the cause of the freed people in the 1880s and 1890s.