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HIST 4203U (VSU)
Civil War and Reconstruction 1850 to 1877 (3 semester hours)

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Prerequisite: See your University Catalog.

A study of United States history from the Compromise of 1850 to the end of Reconstruction. Focuses on the section crisis of the 1850s, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction process after the war.

Requirements: Ten lessons and one examination.

Instructor: Chris Meyers, Ph.D., Valdosta State University.

Texts: McPherson, James M. Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis: 1848–1861. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

Williams, David. A People’s History of the Civil War. New York: The New Press, 2005.

Foner, Eric. A Short History of Reconstruction. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.