Syllabus
1. January 5: Introduction
A Conflicted Nation
2. January 8: The Founders and Slavery
Reading
Perman, Major Problems, Chapter 1, "The North and South Compared"
Alexander Stephens, Cornerstone Speech, March 21, 1861
John C. Calhoun, "Slavery as a Positive Good"
3. January 10: The Ideological Origins of Secession
Reading
Lincoln, "First Inaugural Address," in Great Speeches, 53-77
Jefferson Davis, "Farewell Speech to the US Senate"
Daniel Webster, Second Reply to Hayne, January 1830
John C. Calhoun, Southern Address, 1849
4. January 12: Expansion and Sectionalism
Reading
Cooper, Jefferson Davis, to p. 203
Territorial Maps, 1775-1920
The Gathering Storm
Note: Martin Luther King Day--no class Monday
Meet Tuesday x-hour
5. January 16: Guest Lecture by Poet Lucille Clifton
Reading
Lucille Clifton, "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, South Carolina, 1989" (to be distributed in class)
Lucille Clifton, On "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, South Carolina, 1989,"
Hilary Holladay, "Black Names in White Space: Lucille Clifton's South," The Southern Literary Journal,
Linda Brent, Narrative of a Slave Girl
Frederick Douglass, "Independence Day Speech"
6. January 17: Crises of the 1850s
Reading
Perman, Major Problems, Chapter 2, "Sectional Politics in the 1850s"
Harriet Beecher Stowe's, Uncle Tom's Cabin Chapter 9: "In Which it Appears That a Senator is But a Man"
Nicholas Brimblecomb, Uncles Tom's Cabin in Ruins! Letter VIII: "The Fugitive Slave Law"
7. January 19: Lincoln and Davis
Reading
Cooper, Jefferson Davis, pp. 204-324
Lincoln, , "Cooper Union Address," 1860," in Great Speeches, 35-71
Abraham Lincoln, "A House Divided Speech," 1858
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
Election of 1856 and 1860 (map - you need to select the date of the election you wish to see.)
Henry David Thoreau, "A Plea for Captain Brown," 1859
Secession and War
Note: No class Friday
Meet Tuesday x-hour
8. January 22: Secession and Fort Sumter
Reading
Cooper, Davis,, 204-324
Perman, Major Problems, Chapter 3, "The Secession Crisis"
Jefferson Davis, "Farewell Speech to the US Senate"
South Carolina, Articles of Secession, 1860
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural
Alexander Stephens, Cornerstone Speech, March 21, 1861
Journal of the Public and Secret Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Georgia, 1861
Robert Toombs, Speech to the Georgia Legislature, November 13, 1860
John Preston, Commissioner from South Carolina to the Convention of Virginia, February 19, 1861
Secession: Considered as a Right in the States (Mississippi)
Crisis at Fort Sumter
9. January 23: What They Fought For
Reading
McPherson, What They Fought For
Sullivan Ballou Letter
The Valley of the Shadow: The War Years, Spring 1861- Spring 1865
10. January 24: The Diplomacy of War
Reading
Cooper, Jefferson Davis, pp. 325-71
War
11. January 29: War
Reading
Perman, Major Problems,, Chapter 4, "Fighting the War: The Generals," (pp. 89-95, 104-112), and Chapter 5, "Fighting the War: The Soldiers"
Alexander Graham's Photographs from Antietam
12. January 31: Emancipation
Reading
13. February 2: Midterm Examiniation
Emancipation to Gettysburg
Note: No class on Friday--Winter Carnival
14. February 5: Medical Care, Guest Lecture by Dr. Joseph Rosen
Reading
Perman, Major Problems, Chapter 9, "Women in Wartime," (pp. 257-64),
History of Civil War Medicine
Medical Care
Civil War Nurses
15. February 6: Emancipation
Reading
Perman, Major Problems, Chapter 6, "Abraham Lincoln as Politica and Military Leader" (pp. 89-95, 104-112), and Chapter 10, "Emancipation"
Lincoln, , Great Speeches, 78-100
James M. McPherson, "Who Freed the Slaves?" Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 139, No. 1 (Mar. 1995), pp. 1-10, available through JSTOR
Harriet Jacobs, Life Among the Contrabands
The Emancipation Proclamation
Colored Troops
16. February 7: Gettysburg
Reading
Robert E. Lee, General Orders, No. 73
Haskell's (Dartmouth 1854) Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
The United States Military Academy Maps
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863
Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of Amnesty, 1863
Movie: Glory, 6.30 pm
The Impact of War
17. February 12: The Northern Home Front
Reading
Perman, Major Problems,, Chapter 7, "The Northern Home Front"
18. February 14: The Confederacy
Reading
Perman, Major Problems, Chapter 8, "The Southern Home Front"
Cooper Jefferson Davis 325-469
Drew Gilpin Faust, "Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War," Journal of American History, Vol. 76, No. 4. (Mar. 1990), pp. 1200-1228, Available through JSTOR
Jefferson Davis, Speech at Jackson, Mississippi, 1862
The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865
18. February 16: Writing Papers
19. February 12-16: Paper Conferences
Destructive War
20. February 19: Grant and Sherman
Reading
Perman, Major Problems, Chapter 4, "Fighting the War: The Generals," (pp. 97-104, 112-24)
Robert Bonner The Soldier's Pen
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural, 1865
William T. Sherman, Orders to the Mayor and City Council of Atlanta
William T. Sherman, Special Field Orders, No. 120
21. February 21: War's End
Reading
Major General John B. Gordon, Appomattox
22. February 23: Lincoln's Assassination
Reading
Cooper Davis, 470-534
Lincoln, , Great Speeches, 106-113
Reconstruction
Note: Papers due in on Monday, February 26
23. February 26: The Politics of Reunion
Reading
Cooper Davis, 535-658
Perman, Major Problems,, Chapter 11, "Congress's Terms for the Defeated South"
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
24. February 28: The Freedmen
Reading
Cooper Davis, 470-658
Perman, Major Problems, Chapter 12, "Political and Economic Change in the Reconstruction South," and Chapter 13, "Southern Republicans and the Problems of Reconstruction"
Louisa Jacobs, "Letter from Savannah," March 1866
"From the Freedman's Record" September 1866
25. March 2: "Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs," Guest Lecture by Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego '07
Reading
Perman, Major Problems, Chapter 14, "The Northern Retreat from Reconstruction,"
Gibss,
Lynching statistics
The Significance of the War and the Lost Cause
26. March 5: The Lost Cause
Reading
David W. Blight, "'For Something beyond the Battlefield': Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for the Memory of the Civil War," The Journal of American HIstory, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Mar. 1989), pp. 1156-1178, available through JSTOR
James McPherson, "For a Vast Future Also: Lincoln and the Millennium,"Jefferson Lecture, March 27, 2000, National Endowment for the Humanities
The League of the South
27. March 7: The Legacy of the War
Reading
Perman, Major Problems, Chapter 15, "The Impact and Significance of the Sectional Conflict"
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