Civil War and Reconstruction Spring 2015

HIST: 2266 (16A:066) M-W 9:30-10:45 51 Schaeffer Hall Instructor Information Prof. Sue Stanfield susan-stanfield@uiowa.edu Office Hours: M & W 11:00-noon in Schaeffer Hall 160 Tuesdays: 9:30-10:30 in Jefferson Building, 420 319-335-3626 and by appointment Course Description This course examines American society during the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. We will explore the themes of sectional conflict, slavery, and the causes of the war, political and military conflict, emancipation, and the social, economic, and political reconstruction of the South. This course also pays close attention to the experience of war and its impact on civilians and soldiers, men and women, both during and after the military conflict. Textbooks, monographs, primary documents and images will help us investigate the meaning of this war for all Americans. Course Requirements Readings: There are three assigned texts for this course as well as additional readings that will be available on ICON. Please be sure to bring the assigned readings with you to class, as they will be used in class discussions. --Required Books Foner, Eric. Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation & Reconstruction. New York: Vintage Books, 2005. Nelson, Scott and Carol Sheriff. A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War, 1854-1877. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Schwalm, Leslie. A Hard Fight for We: Women’s Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Papers: Your major paper will involve finding a primary document that relates to the Civil War and Reconstruction (that is not published in a textbook or documentary reader) and provide an introduction to the document that explains the context and significant parties involved with the document. You will then provide the document and follow it with a list of at least 3 discussion questions. You will also be asked to complete three Primary Document checklists that are due on the day the primary document you are examining is discussed in class. You must complete at least one of the check lists before the midterm exam. Exams: The mid-term and final examinations will evaluate your understanding of course content by asking you to write short responses to a few essay questions an comprehensive explanations/definitions of key concepts and terms that we discussed throughout the course. Course Grade: The Course Grade will be divided as follows: Attendance and Participation 5% of overall grade Mid-term Exam 25% of overall grade Final Exam 30% of overall grade Paper 25% of overall grade Document check lists, 5% each, 15% of overall grade. Grading  A+  97-­‐100     B+  87-­‐89     C+  77-­‐79     D+  67-­‐69  A      93-­‐96     B      83-­‐86     C      73-­‐76     D      63-­‐66  A-­‐  90-­‐92     B-­‐  80-­‐82     C-­‐  70-­‐72     D-­‐    60-­‐62   F=  Below  60   A  Grade:    Demonstrates  outstanding  work.    B  Grade:    Attempts  critical  thinking  and  analysis  and  shows  solid  grasp  of  the  required  reading.    Students  who  achieve  B-­‐level  work  consistently  attend  class  and  demonstrate  preparedness.    C  Grade:    Demonstrates  a  basic  level  of  effort  and  competence  with  the  course  materials  but  also  might  have  gaps  in  critical  thinking,  comprehension  or  synthesis  of  the  material,  and  incomplete  command  of  the  basic  facts.    Irregular  attendance  often  results  in  C-­‐level  work.    D  Grade:    Does  not  meet  basic  standards  of  competency  in  the  course.    D-­‐level  work  shows  incomprehension  of  the  course  content  and  falls  short  of  expectations  for  college  level  coursework.    Attendance Policy: The class meetings for this course will build upon the weekly readings but will also introduce you to information and ideas that may not be discussed by the authors. In light of this you need to attend class on a regular basis. You should accumulate no more than three unexcused absences. Each unexcused absence thereafter will affect your Participation and Attendance percentage, which constitutes 5% of your total grade. If you need to miss class because of a religious observance or participation in an intercollegiate activity (for example, athletics, debate, marching band) you will be able to makeup work missed because of such absences (as per University policy). In these cases, please notify me of your need to miss class prior to the date of your absence whenever possible. For students currently participating in intercollegiate activities should provide documentation from the appropriate University official.

Course Time Line

January Week One: Introduction to the Course W 21 Introduction to the course Read: Syllabus/Course Policies Week Two: The Roots of the Conflict M 26 The Development of Slavery in the 17th & 18th Century Read: No assigned reading from textbook Document: The Codification of Slavery and Race in 17th Century Virginia (1630- 1680) in White, Bay & Martin, Freedom on My Mind, Boston: Bedford/St. Martin, 2013. ICON. W 28 The Antebellum South Read: Bruce Levine, “The Anointed Lords of Creation: Culture and Society in the Antebellum South,” Chapter 4 of Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War. New York: Hill & Wang, 2005. ICON Documents: James Henry Hammond Claims Southern Cultural Superiority, 1845 and George Fitzhugh Praises Southern Society, 1854, in Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction, Second Edition. Michael Perman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. ICON February Week Three: The Roots of the Conflict Continued M 02 Slavery and Anti-Slavery Activism Read: Schwalm, A Hard Fight for We, part I (Chapter 1 & 2) Document: Angelina Grimke Weld, Speech at Pennsylvania Hall, Philadelphia, May 16, 1838. ICON. W 04 Compromise & Conflict Read: James m. McPherson, “Texas, Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850,” in Ordeal by Fire: The Coming of War, Boston: McGraw Hill, 2001. ICON Documents: John C. Calhoun on the Compromise of 1850 and Henry Clay, “A

General Review of the debate on the Compromise Bills,” ICON Week Four: Sectional Conflict and the Coming of the War M 09 Introduction to Research for Course Paper Guest Speaker: Janalyn Moss UIOWA libraries W 11 The Road to Bleeding Kansas and the Emergence of the Republican Party Read: Nelson & Sheriff, Chapter 1 & 2. Document: Charles Sumner, The Crime Against Kansas. ICON Week Five: Secession M 16 Medicine and the Civil War Guest Speaker: Brian Donovan, University of Iowa. W 18 Secession and the Coming of the War Read: McPherson, Ordeal by Fire, Chapter Nine ICON Documents: President Elect Lincoln Explains What is at Stake (12/60), Robert Toombs defends his own and his state’s honor. ICON Week Six Organizing Armies and Governments M 23 The War Begins Read: Nelson & Sheriff, Chapter 3 Document: Eugene Blackford, CSA describes his first experience in combat ICON W 25 Creating a Strategy for Two Nations Read: Nelson & Sheriff, Chapters 4 & 6. Document: George McClellan gives a lesson in grand strategy (7/62) ICON March Week Seven: Midterm and the Realities of War M 02 MIDTERM EXAM W 04 Facing Death and the Realities of War Read: Nelson & Sheriff, Chapter 5 and Chapter 10 Documents: Sullivan Ballou’s letter to his wife 7/14/61 ICON and Hannah Ropes Expresses the Frustration of a Union Nurse (1862) ICON Week Eight: The War Takes Hold M 09 1862: Shiloh and Antietam Read: McPherson, Battle of Shiloh ICON and McPherson, The First Turning Point ICON Optional Reading: McPherson, Jackson and Lee Strike Back ICON Documents: General Lee Takes the Offensive; General E. Porter Alexander, CSA, Assess Lee and McClellan at Antietam ICON and Robert Gould Shaw Reacts to Antietam and Possible Emancipation ICON.

W 11 The Politics of Wartime Read: Nelson & Sheriff Chapters 7 & 8 Document: Lieber’s Code (1863) ICON DUE: Selection of Primary Document M 16 Spring Break, No Class! W 18 Spring Break, No Class! Week Nine: The War on the Homefront M 23 Life in the Wartime Union Read: Nelson & Sheriff Chapter 11 Documents: Mary Livermore explains the Role of Women in Union War Effort, “How Workers are Reacting to the Draft (1863), and The Work and Goals of Sanitary Commission (1864). ICON W 25 Life in the Wartime South Read: Nelson & Sheriff Chapter 12 Documents: Kate Cumming Criticizes Southern Women (9/63) and Phoebe Yates Pember Commends Southern Women (undated) ICON Week Ten: The African American Experience During the Civil War M 30 Slavery’s Wartime Crisis Read: Schwalm, Part II (Chapters 3 & 4) Document: Warren Aiken of Georgia Contemplates the Fate of Slavery, 1864 April W 01 Black Men in Blue Read: Foner, Chapter 2; McPherson “War Issues & Politics in 1863 (only pages 377-84, and 388-319 required). Documents: James Henry Gooding, Are We Soldiers, or Are We Laborers? and Alfred M. Green, “Let Us Take up the Sword” ICON. Week Eleven M 06 Gettysburg and Vicksburg: The Changing Tides Read: McPherson, “The Second Turning Point: Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga,” ICON. Documents: General Grant on the Siege of Vicksburg, 1863 ICON; Robert E. Lee letter to his wife, July 1863 ICON; and President Lincoln letter to General Meade, July 1863 ICON. W 08 The U.S. Dakota War Guest Lecture: Colleen Kelley, University of Iowa

Documents: TBA Week Twelve: The Conflict Comes to a Close M 13 Lincoln, McClellan, and the Election of 1864 Documents: The Gettysburg Address ICON, Democratic Platform 1864 ICON, Republican Platform 1864 ICON. W 15 Sherman’s March, Appomattox, and the end of the War Read: McPherson, “The End of the Confederacy,” ICON. Documents: The Thirteenth Amendment, ICON, Lincoln’s Second Inaugural ICON, and Grant & Lee Surrender Correspondence ICON. Week Thirteen: Reconstruction M 20 The First Year after the War Read: Foner, Chapter 3 and Schwalm, Chapter 5 Document: The Freedmen’s Bureau, ICON. W 22 Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction Read: Foner, Chapter 4 Document: Political Cartoons and Johnson Impeachment ICON DUE: Paper Week Fourteen: Congressional Reconstruction and Everyday Life M 27 Congressional Reconstruction Read Foner, Chapters 5 & 6

Documents: 14th and 15th Amendments, Congress’s terms for Readmission and Reconstruction (June 1866) and Stanton & Anthony on the 15th

Amendment, ICON. W 29 Changes in Labor and Daily Life Read: Schwalm, Chapters 6 and 7 Document: TBA May Week Fifteen: The End of Reconstruction M 04 An End to Reconstruction Read: Foner, Chapter 7 and Epilogue Documents: Charles Sumner, “We can no longer support President Grant,” Rutherford B. Hayes Describes His Southern Policy, 1876. ICON W 06 A Nation Stitched Together Read: Nelson and Sheriff, Chapter 14 Week Sixteen: Final Exam Week Th 14 10:00-12:00 in regular classroom (SH 51)

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