HIST 862 - The American Civil War through Literature

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Trinity College

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Description:

This graduate-level seminar investigates the causes and consequences of the Civil War using a variety of nineteenth-century writings from memoirs and letters to novels and poems. We will explore different and often competing ideas about slavery and freedom, state and nation, individual rights, and family which, in many cases, were transformed by the conflict and which, in turn, forever changed American life. Understanding these issues will provide a means for serious interrogation of the way in which modern historians frame the Civil War and suggest new ways to think about the military, social, and cultural milieu of the late nineteenth century. Authors studied will include: Mary Chesnut, Frederick Douglass, Ulysses Grant, Henry Timrod, Walt Whitman, and others. 1.00 units, Seminar

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1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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