{"id":13,"date":"2012-01-24T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T13:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2024-02-01T18:25:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T18:25:52","slug":"course-syllabus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cHuman-nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; as bad and good. Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/response-to-serenade-november-10-1864\/\">&#8211;Abraham Lincoln, November 10, 1864<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/01\/2024-Syllabus-Civil-War-1.pdf\">PRINTABLE SYLLABUS<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Books <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>(also available via online access at college library)<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elizabeth R. Varon, <em>Armies of Deliverance: College Edition <\/em>(New York: Oxford, 2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><strong>Additional Readings <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David W. Blight, \u201cFor Something Beyond the Battlefield,\u201d <em>JAH <\/em>75 (March 1989): 1156-1178. [JSTOR]<\/li>\n<li>Dickinson &amp; Slavery (House Divided): Sectional Crisis, Freedom\u2019s Legacy [<a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/slavery\/\">WEB<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Essential Civil War Curriculum (Virginia Tech): Etcheson \/\/ Meyers \/\/ Woods [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com\/\">WEB<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge for Freedom (KFF) (House Divided): Constitution, Dred Scott, Reconstruction Amendments [<a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/\">WEB<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Emancipation Digital Classroom (House Divided): Guide to Lincoln Movie [<a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/\">WEB<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Civil War &amp; Reconstruction (House Divided): Gettysburg tour [<a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/gettysburg-virtual-tour\/\">WEB<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Locke and Ben Wright, eds., <em>American Yawp, <\/em>(Stanford University Press, 2023-24 ed.), [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/\">WEB<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Lincoln\u2019s Writings (House Divided): Lincoln and War Powers [<a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/\">WEB<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>NPS UGRR Handbook (House Divided): Bordewich \/\/ Foner \/\/ Harrold \/\/ Johnson \/\/ Oakes \/\/ Sinha [<a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/\">WEB<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Pinsker, \u201cAfter 1850: Reassessing the Impact of the Fugitive Slave Law,\u201d (Pargas, 2018)[<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-interpreting-the-upper-ground-railroad\/\">WEB<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/assignments\/first-essay-coming-of-war\/\"><strong>First Essay \u00a0\u2013Coming of Civil War<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Monday, Feb. 26<\/strong>, students will submit a 3-5 page typed, double-spaced essay on a coming of Civil War topic provided to them in class on Thursday February 22. All essays must include material from sources featured on the course site properly cited using Chicago-style footnotes. Outside research is allowed but not required.\u00a0 Essays will be graded on depth of analysis, use of evidence, and quality of prose. Late essays will be penalized up to 5 points each day.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/assignments\/second-essay-emancipation\/\"><strong>Second Essay \u2013Wartime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Monday, April 1<\/strong>, students will submit a 3-5 page typed, double-spaced essay on a topic about wartime politics or military affairs provided to them in class on Thursday, March 29. All essays must include material from Varon\u2019s book and from other sources featured at the course site, properly cited using Chicago-style footnotes.\u00a0 Outside research is allowed but not required.\u00a0 Essays will be graded on depth of analysis, use of evidence, and quality of prose. Late essays will be penalized up to 5 points each day.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/assignments\/final-web-projects\/\"><strong>Final Web Projects<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The highlight of this semester will be a website project that students will undertake to explain the significance of an important political, military, or social reform campaign from the Civil War era.\u00a0 By <strong>Monday, April 29<\/strong>, students must submit an 8- to 10-page narrative essay on their subject, relying on a range of primary and secondary sources, and employing Chicago-style footnotes.\u00a0 Papers will receive provisional or temporary grades. By <strong>Tuesday, May 14<\/strong>, students should revise this essay and transform it into website on the free platform Weebly.\u00a0 Each website should include an array of properly credited and captioned images as well as at least one embedded short video (about 1 to 2 minutes).\u00a0 Projects will be graded on depth of analysis, research effort, and quality of prose. Late project submissions will be penalized up to 5 points per day.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Grade Distribution <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Class Participation\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20 percent<\/p>\n<p>Coming of War Essay \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 25 percent<\/p>\n<p>Wartime Essay\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 25 percent<\/p>\n<p>Final web projects\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 30 percent<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<table width=\"624\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><strong>Day<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><strong>Date<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong>Discussion Topic<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><strong>Reading Assignment<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">1\/23<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/methods-center\/\">Methods<\/a><\/span> &amp; <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-policies\/\">Expectations<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">1\/25<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/sectional-crisis\/\">Sectional Crisis Overview<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/13-the-sectional-crisis\/\">Yawp, chap 13<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">1\/30<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/constitution-and-slavery\/\">Constitution &amp; Slavery<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/us-constitution-on-slavery-1787\/\">KFF: US Constitution<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">2\/1<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/fugitive-slave-law\/\">Fugitive Slave Law<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-after-1850\/\">Pinsker article<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">2\/6<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/underground-railroad\/\">Underground Railroad<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\">NPS UGRR:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/the-abolitionist-underground-sinha\/\">Sinha<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/the-politics-of-fugitive-slaves-oakes\/\">Oakes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/myths-of-the-underground-railroad-bordewich\/\">Bordewich<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">2\/8<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/slave-stampedes\/\">Slave Stampedes<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\">NPS UGRR: <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/foner-on-middle-atlantic-region-foner\/\">Foner<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/escaping-in-and-around-washington-dc-maryland-virginia-harrold\/\">Harrold<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/escaping-on-the-northwestern-frontier-johnson\/\">Johnson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">2\/13<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/kansas-territory\/\">Kansas Territory<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com\/bleeding-kansas.html\">Etcheson article<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">2\/15<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/dred-scott-case\/\">Dred (and Harriet) Scott Case<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/dred-scott-case-1857\/\">KFF: Dred Scott<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">2\/20<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/election-of-1860\/\">Election of 1860<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com\/the-election-of-1860.html\">Meyers article<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">2\/22<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/secession-crisis\/\">Secession Crisis<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com\/causes-of-the-civil-war.html\">Woods article<\/a> + <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/slavery\/our-research\/sectional-crisis\/\">Dickinson &amp; Slavery<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><strong>Monday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><strong>2\/26<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong>Coming of War essay due<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><strong>By 5pm by email attachment<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">2\/27<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/1861-war-begins\/\">1861:\u00a0 War Begins<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Varon, intro + chap 1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">2\/29<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/spring-1862-to-shiloh\/\">Spring 1862: Shiloh<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Varon, chap 2<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">3\/5<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/summer-1862-confiscation\/\">Summer 1862:\u00a0 Peninsula<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Varon, chap 3<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">3\/7<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/fall-1862-antietam\/\">Fall 1862:\u00a0 Antietam<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Varon, chap 4<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">3\/12<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\">NO CLASS \u2013SPRING BREAK<\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">3\/14<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\">NO CLASS \u2013SPRING BREAK<\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">3\/19<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/winter-1862-63-emancipation\/\">Winter 1862: Fredericksburg<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Varon, chap. 5<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">3\/21<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/emancipation\/\">Spring 1863:\u00a0 Emancipation<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Varon, chap 6<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">3\/26<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/spring-1863-homefront\/\">Spring 1863:\u00a0 Homefront<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Varon, chap 7<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">3\/28<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/turning-points\/\">Summer 1863:\u00a0 Turning Points<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Varon, chap 8<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><strong>T<\/strong>hursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">3\/28<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2024\/01\/17\/2024-wert-lecture-with-harold-holzer\/\">LECTURE:\u00a0 Harold Holzer<\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\">Stern Great Room, 7pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><strong>Monday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><strong>4\/1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong>\u00a0Wartime essay due<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><strong>By 5pm by email attachment<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">4\/2<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/fall-1863-wartime-reconstruction\/\">Fall 1863:\u00a0 Wartime reconstruction<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Varon, chap 9<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">4\/4<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/spring-1864-hard-war\/\">Spring 1864:\u00a0 Hard War<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Varon, chap 10<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">4\/9<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/lincoln-and-war-powers\/\">Lincoln and War Powers<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/warpowers\/\">Lincoln\u2019s Writings<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">4\/11<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/fall-1864-lincolns-re-election\/\">Fall 1864:\u00a0 Reelection<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Varon, chap 11<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Saturday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">4\/13<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/gettysburg-virtual-tour\/\">Field trip to Gettysburg<\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\">Depart 10am \/\/ Return by 4pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">4\/16<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/spring-1865-endgame\/\">Spring 1865:\u00a0 Endgame<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Varon, chapter 12<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">4\/18<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/reconstruction\/\">Southern Reconstruction<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Varon, conclusion<\/span> + <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/15-reconstruction\/\">Yawp, chap. 15<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">4\/23<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/second-founding\/\">Second Founding<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\">KFF: <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/reconstruction-amendments\/\">Reconstruction Amendments<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">4\/25<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/frederick-douglass\/\">Frederick Douglass and Lost Cause<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2012\/01\/Blight-article.pdf\">Blight article<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><strong>Monday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><strong>4\/29<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong>Final project essays due<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><strong>By 5pm by email attachment<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Tuesday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">4\/30<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/north-during-reconstruction\/\">North During Reconstruction<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/slavery\/our-research\/freedoms-legacy\/\">Dickinson &amp; Slavery<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\">Thursday<\/td>\n<td width=\"48\">5\/2<\/td>\n<td width=\"234\">Lessons &amp; Legacies<\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"89\"><strong>Tuesday<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"48\"><strong>5\/14<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong>Final web projects due<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"254\"><strong>By 5pm by email link<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHuman-nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; as bad and good. Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}