HIST 245 - The American Civil War

FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2011 and alternate years

The sectional crisis. The election of 1860 and the secession of the southern states. Military strategy and tactics. Weapons, battles, leaders. Life of the common soldier. Diplomacy: King Cotton and King Wheat. The politics of war. The economics of growth and destruction. Emancipation. Life behind the lines. Victory and defeat.Merchant.