Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

HIST 4420 Hist US Civil War Era Memory

This course will focus upon the contentious creation and evolution of the collective memories of the U.S. Civil War from the wartime beginnings of such remembrances through the postwar Reconstruction Era and the Jim Crow Era. Throughout, we will discuss the ways in which this history of Civil War memory reverberates through contemporary debates on issues of race and region.

Credits

3