History 791SR - S-From Slavery/Reconstr. Adv

This course examines the causes and the course of the Civil War, its social, economic, and political results during Reconstruction, and the early roots of segregation and the civil rights movement. It will examine the process of emancipation from the perspective of social history, and provide the international context of slavery that led to the war. Violent conflicts over free labor and the political and economic policies pursued by freedpeople, ex-masters, northern policymakers, wage laborers, and African American women will be covered. African American viewpoints and histories will receive particular emphasis.

Unlike 691NR, students enrolling in this version of the course must produce a substantial research paper grounded in original research involving artifact collections.