UNIT 3: Waging War, Ending War, & Reconstruction

Tentative Topics and Readings for Hist 112 Civil War & Reconstruction

(reading schedule may change at instructor’s discretion)

Spring 2005

 

Week 11 (Mar. 29 & 31)

**Class will not meet this week due to a death in my family. Please be diligent about your reading so as not to fall behind. Be prepared to turn in your notes to this week’s reading when we meet again.

-Your rough draft (which is optional) is now due to me in class, Tues. April 5th.

-I will also turn back your exams on this day.

 

Topics:  Soldiering—the war drags on, changes, and wears on everyone.

 

Readings:

            -McPherson, pp. 653-65; 666-81.

            -Perman, Chapt. 4, 97-123

            -Perman, Chapt. 5, 130-155

            -Robertson, Chapts. 7, 8, 10

 

Week 12 (April 5 & 7)

Topics:  As you read, consider this question:  How did American women experience the Civil War, North & South?

 

Readings:**note: focus on Faust reading first, but read parts from the other 2 books listed to add to our discussion

 

            -Faust, Chapt. 2 (30-top of 40, 45-52), Chapt. 3 (skim), Chapt. 4, (80-82, 92-113), Chapt. 5

-Review: Robertson, Chapt. 6

-Perman, Chapt. 9

 

-Web sites--optional:

            -Civil War Women, Internet Sources, letters, (Duke Univ.)

            -Women & the Civil War, bibliography (Duke Univ.)

            -Women of the American Civil War, biographies & more

-Women Soldiers of the Civil War (National Archives) **note: links to parts 2 & 3 of this site are at the bottom of this web site

-American Women’s History-the Civil War Era (Middle Tenn. State Univ.) 

-Southern Women in the Civil War (U VA)

 

Week 13 (April. 12) **Note: we will not meet Thurs. April 14th

Topics:  Women, cont’d; How would you characterize the home front experiences?—again, focus on the Faust readings first.

 

Readings:

            -Faust, Chapts. 6, 8, 9, 10 (skim)

-Review: McPherson, 611-19 (the South’s food crisis)

            -Perman, Chapt. 7, 8 (but only 234-45)

 

Week 14 (April 19 & 21)

Topics: Sherman’s March to the Sea, Appomattox—Lee’s Surrender; Presentations

 

Readings:

            -McPherson, Chapt. 25 (756-773), Chapt. 26 (774-802), Chapt. 27 (807-11, 825-30), Chapt. 28 (844-52)

           

Week 15 (April 26 & 28)

Topics: Emancipation and Reconstruction        

 

Readings:

            -Perman, Chapt. 10 (282-310), (be sure to understand the essay beginning on p. 288)

            -Foner, Chapts. 2-4

 

Web Site:

            -The Creation of the 14th Amendment (Harp. Weekly)

            -The Creation of the 15th Amendment (Harp. Weely)

           

Week 16 (May 3 & 5)

Topics: Reconstruction

 

Readings:

            -Foner, Chapts. 5-7, Chapt. 8 (168-79), Chapt. 9 (184-98), Chapt. 11 (227-37), Chapt. 12, (242-53)

 

FINAL EXAM  MON. MAY 9, 2-3:50 P.M.