Syllabus: HSTY2656

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Dr. Frances M. Clarke
Lecturer
Department of History
University of Sydney
Office: 838 Mungo MacCallum
Phone: (02) 9351 2880
frances.clarke@arts.usyd.edu.au

 


UNIT OF STUDY OUTLINE

Week 1 March 3

Introduction

March 5

Slavery and the American Republic

Tutorial

No Tutorial


Week 2

March 10

Political Realignments & Territorial Expansion

March 12

Free Labor Ideology

Tutorial

The Lincoln Douglas Debates & the Defence of Slavery


Week 3

March 17

The South Secedes

March 19

Mobilizing for War

Tutorial

Common Soldiers


Week 4

March 31

Stalemate

April 2

the War for Foreign Support

Tutorial

Civil Liberties in Wartime


Week 5

April 7

The Civil War in Global Context

April 9

A Godly War and a Deadly One

Tutorial

The Civil War in Popular Culture


Week 6

April 14 Turning Points
April 16 The Birth of Modern Warfare?

Tutorial

Was the Civil War a Total War?

Week 7

April 21

Guerilla War

April 23

The Limits of Union and Confederate Nationalism

Tutorial

Southern Slaveholding Women


Week 8

April 28

Emancipation and the Transformation of the War

April 30

Experimenting with Racial Boundaries

Tutorial

New York City Draft Riots

Research Essay Due: Monday May 5 (hand in to SOPHI Office)

Week 9

May 5

The War's Aftermath

May 7

cancelled film screening

Tutorial

Who Ended Slavery?


AVCC Common Week

Week 10

May 12

Radical Reconstruction

May 14

The Demise of Reconstruction

Tutorial

Reading Week - No Tutorial


Week 11

May 19

Northern Veterans & Sectional Reunion

May 21

FILM SCREENING: Glory n.b. film begins 9 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.

Tutorial

Late Nineteenth Century Revisionism


Week 12

May 26

The Transformation of Civil War Memory

May 28

No Lecture

Tutorial

Re-enacting the Civil War


Take Home Exam scheduled for Friday 6 June, 2008. Pick up from Department website from 9 a.m. Friday morning. Return on the morning of Monday 9 June.

Make-up Take Home Exam: (you must sign up for this!): Friday 13 June to Monday 16 June