History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: American Memory
8 Dec 2016
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In america there is still tensions from this conflict. The american resources: race, slavery, and american memory. Primary sources read every word, more than once, analyze as you read. The first shots are fired april 13, 1861: u. s. fort sumter, s. c. (see. 620,000 dead (officially) now estimated at 725,000; + billions. First major battle: bull run/first manassas, july 21, 1861. The confederate states of america (csa, the south, the confederacy) The united states of america (the union, the north) The coming of the war and the political crisis and cultural divisions that caused it. Slavery as a political, economic, and social factor. Military & civilian perspectives on the conflict. Major battles and campaigns, csa and usa strategies over time. Reconstruction and the nadir of american race relations. Memory & forgetting the (cid:498)lost cause(cid:499) and the post-war rewriting of the conflict. Are military or political/social factors more important to understanding the.
