Modules

Dates

Chapters

Reading and Viewing

1

1-4

A Modernizing Nation and the Antebellum South   
Slavery and Sectionalism 
Discussion Question 1 Due (Submit on BB by 11:00 pm Sunday)
Additional Film Resources: The West, Episodes 1-2 and Africans in America, Parts 1 to 4     

2

5-8

Filibusters, Fugitives, Nativists and Kansas
Deepening Crisis and 1859-60   
Paper Topic Due (Submit on BB by 11:00 pm Sunday)

Additional Film Resources: Abraham and Mary Lincoln, A House Divided, Parts 1  and 2   

3

9-12

Secession and a Brothers’ War 
Mobilizing and Balance Sheet     
Paper Outline Due (Submit on BB by 11:00 pm Sunday)
First Exam (Take at testing center any day during week 6)
Additional Film Resources: Abraham and Mary Lincoln, A House Divided, Part 3     
American President: Abraham Lincoln                              

4

13-16

War at Home and Abroad and Springtime of Northern Hope        
Jackson and Lee and Slavery and the War   
Additional Film Resources: Abraham and Mary Lincoln, A House Divided, Part 4

5

17-20

First Turning Point and Winter 
Second Turning Point and War Issues and Politics
Discussion Question 3 Due (Submit on BB by 11:00 pm Sunday)
Paper Draft Due (Submit on BB by 11:00 pm Sunday)
Additional Film Resources: Abraham and Mary Lincoln, A House Divided, Part 5 

6

21-25

Behind the Lines and Wartime Reconstruction    
Military Stalemate, Third Turning Point, and End of the Confederacy
Discussion Question 4 Due (Submit on BB by 11:00 pm Sunday)
Additional Film Resources: Abraham and Mary Lincoln, A House Divided, Part 6

7

26-29

Problems of Peace and Origins of Radical Reconstruction 
Second Exam (Take at testing center any day during week 13)
Reconstruction and First Grant Administration       
Additional Film Resources: American President: Andrew Johnson    
Additional Film Resources: American President: Ulysses S. Grant       

8

30-33

New Regime in the South and Social and Economic Reconstruction
Paper Final Due (Submit on BB by 11:00 pm Sunday)
Destruction of Reconstruction  and Making of the Solid South
Discussion Question 5 Due (Submit on BB by 11:00 pm Sunday)
Third Exam (Take at testing center)