HSY2990

The American Civil War

(ART)

Mark Peel and others

6 points + 3 hours per week + Second semester + Caulfield and Clayton + Prerequisites: A first year sequence in History or permission + Prohibition: HSY3990

Synopsis: This subject will relate the history of the American Civil War, with a particular focus on the political, social and ideological origins of the conflict between North and South; contemporary and historical understandings of the causes and outcomes of the war; the international significance of the Civil War as a political, military and social conflict; the experience and perspectives of 'ordinary Americans' before, during and after the war, with particular attention to soldiers and on slaves before and after emancipation; and the representation of the conflict in photography, fiction, film, popular memory and historical scholarship during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Assessment: Group project (equivalent 1000 words): 30% + Research essay (2500 words): 50% + Examination (1 hour): 20%