I will upload PowerPoint presentations that match with our course lectures.
August 23 — “The Creation of a Southern Slave Society”
August 30 — “A Union in Peril: The Sectional Crisis Over Slavery’s Expansion”
September 13 — “Political Leadership, Military Strategy, and the Onset of War in 1861”
September 20 — “Southern Civilians and Life on the Confederate Home Front”
September 27 — “The Challenges of Command and Leadership, 1862”
October 4 — “Gender Roles and Female Professions on the Northern Home Front”
October 11 — “Turning Points: The Battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg, 1862-1863”
October 21 — “Moving Toward Emancipation: Lincoln, Contrabands, and Union Policy”
October 27 — “Black Enlistment and Service in Kansas and Missouri, 1862-1865”
November 1 — “Military Conflict in the Trans-Mississippi Theater and the Far West”
November 10 — “The Atlanta Campaign and Sherman’s March to the Sea”
November 15 — “Military Campaigns in Virginia, the Surrender at Appomattox, and the Lincoln Assassination”
November 17 — “A Success, Or a Failure? The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877”
From previous semesters:
September 9 — “Lincoln’s Election, the Secession Crisis, and the Onset of Military Conflict”
December 2 — “Controversy and Consensus: How We Remember the Civil War in the 21st Century”
HIST4330: Civil War and Reconstruction 