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Professor: Peter Knupfer
Tom Summerhill

History 304

battle of the iron cladsOaxaca The American Civil War

The course provides an intensive study of the causes, conduct, and consequences of the American Civil War. Students will examine the underlying sectional conflict over slavery, freedom, and nationality, the military and political conduct of the ensuing war, the social and economic transformation of an agrarian republic into a nation-state, and the struggle over economic and social reconstruction after emancipation. Extensive use of online sources.