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Department of History

UCCS Department of History
1420 Austin Bluffs pkwy
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
(719) 255-4069
(719) 255-4068 FAX
History 453: Civil War and Reconstruction


CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, Spring 2007

Instructor:  Paul Harvey

SYLLABUS

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR CLASS

ID Terms

PAPER ASSIGNMENTS
Foner Paper Topics now posted!

MIDTERM TAKE-HOME EXAM QUESTIONS


Final Exam Study Guide



Films for Class

Glory


PBS The Civil War

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Birth of a Nation (1915)







Slavery Interactive Maps

Timeline of Events Leading to Civil War

Civil War Home Page: comes with timelines, interactive battle maps
Civil War Image Map


Civil War: Major Maps, Images, Documents (from Ken Burns "The Civil War" PBS series site)

Constitutional Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th)

Doctored "Black Confederate" Photos (discussed in class 04/03)


OTHER RESOURCES


Mark Radvanczy's paper on Ayers/Torget,
Sections II - IV
(model paper)

Ray Schultz's Presentation on War in the Frontier (powerpoint presentation with maps of skirmishes in the Trans-Mississippi West and discussion of Cullen/Sizer, Section IX)

Andre Nolte's Paper on Eric Foner's "The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation" (in C)

Julianne Turner and Jennifer Meredith's paper on Cullen/Sizer, Chapter XII (Women and the Civil War discussion)

Supplemental Discussions, Class Questions, and Queries