HISTORY 630:
SEMINAR IN CIVIL WAR
Marion B. Lucas
Professor of History and
University Distinguished
Professor
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SYLLABUS
CLASS INSTRUCTIONS FOR CIVIL WAR SEMINAR, FALL 2004
1.
All papers must be typed (12 pt),
ragged right margin, standard 1 in. margins.
2.
500
word essay on “Writing History‑Objectivity or Opinion; Science or
Art.”
Give it some thought;
write your ideas in a 500-word essay due August
30.
3.
Books on the nature of history.
Herbert
Butterfield, History
Harvard
Guide, 3-8
Barzum
& Graff, The Modern Researcher
Jules
R. Benjamin, A Students Guide to History
Mary Lynn Rampola, A Pocket Guide
to Writing History
4.
MINOR PAPER—Bibliographical
Essay—See Topics Below
Due September 27. Footnotes must be
at the bottom of the page.
Group A will critique Group B; Group
B will critique Group A
Bibliographical Essay Topics
Kentucky: Did
Lincoln Need Kentucky More Than God?
Harrison,
Lowell H. The Civil War in Kentucky (1975).
Stone,
Richard. The Kentucky Fighting Man (1982).
Brown, Kent M. The Civil War in
Kentucky (2000).
Smith,
John David and William Cooper. Union Women in Kentucky: The Diary
of Francis
Peter (2000).
The Causes of
the Civil War: Slavery or Society?
McPherson, James M. Battle
Cry Of
Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988).
Holt,
Michael F. The Political Crisis of the 1950s (1978).
Jefferson Davis:
Great Leader or Architect of Confederate Defeat?
Woodworth, Steven. Jefferson
Davis and
His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command
in the West (1990).
Escott, Paul. After
Secession:
Jefferson Davis and the failure of Southern Nationalism (1978).
Hattaway, Herman and Richard
E. Beringer.
Jefferson Davis, Confederate President (2002).
Lincoln and
Civil Liberties: What did Union Mean to Lincoln?
Neely, Mark E., Jr. The
Fate of
Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (1991).
Paludin, Phillip Shaw. The
Presidency
of Abraham Lincoln (1994).
George B.
McClellan: Great General or Incompetent?
Sears, Stephen W. George
B. McClellan:
The Young Napoleon (1999).
Waugh, John C. The Class
of 1846 :
From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson,
George McClellan and
Their
Brothers (1999).
Rowland, Thomas J. George
B. McClellan
and Civil War: In the Shadow of Grant and
Sherman (1998).
Robert E. Lee:
Great General or Wrong Strategy?
Freeman, Douglas S. R.E.
Lee: A Biography (4 vols., 1934‑1935).
Connelly, Thomas L. The
Marble Man:
Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society
(1977).
Thomas,
Emory. Robert E. Lee: A Biography (1995).
James “Pete”
Longstreet: Great General or Cause for Defeat?
Piston, William Garrett. Lee’s
Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in
Southern History
(1987).
Connelly, Thomas L. and
Bellows, Barbara.
God and General Longstreet: The Lost Cause
and the Southern Mind
(1982).
U.S. Grant:
Great General or Butcher?
Catton, Bruce. U.S. Grant
and the
American Military Tradition (1954).
Simpson, Brooks D. Ulysses
S. Grant:
Triumph Over Adversity, 1822‑1865 (2000).
William T.
Sherman: Barbarian or Innovative Commander?
Marszalek, John F. Sherman:
A
Soldier’s Passion for Order (1993).
Castel, Albert. Decision
in the West:
The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 (1992).
Royster,
Charles. The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall
Jackson,
and the Americans (1991).
Southern Women:
Backbone of The Southern Cause?
Rable, George C. Civil
Wars: Women and
the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1989).
Woodward, C. Vann, ed. Mary
Chesnut’s
Civil War (1981).
Southern
Religious Leaders: Advocates for Civil War!
Hill, Samuel S., Jr. The
South and the
North in American Religion (1980).
Snay, Mitchell. Gospel of
Disunion:
Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (1993).
Why did they
Fought: North v. South?
Linderman, Gerald. Embattled
Courage:
The Experience of Combat in the American
Civil War (1987).
McPherson, James M. For
Cause and
Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997).
Watkins, Sam. Company Aytch
(1962 or later edition).
Civil War
Prisons: North v. South
Marvel,
William. Andersonville: The Last Depot (1994).
Speer, Lonnie R. Portals
to Hell: The
Military Prisons of the Civil War (1997).
Frohman,
Charles E. Rebels on Lake Erie (1997).
The Western
Theater: The Theater of Victory?
Williams, Kenneth P. Lincoln
Finds A General (1949-59, vols. 3-5)
Cooling,
Benj. F. Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate
Heartland
(1987).
Castel, Albert. Decision in the
West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 (1992)
Woodworth, Steven A. Six Armies
in Tennessee (1998).
Peter Cozzens, numerous books.
Appalachia in
the Civil War: Solidly Union or Bitterly Divided?
Noe, Kenneth and Shannon Wilson. The
Civil War in Appalachia (1997).
Groce,
W. Todd. Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates in the Civil
War,
1860-1870 (
Fisher,
Noel C. War at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence
in East
Tennessee,
1860-1869 (1997).
Noe, Kenneth W. Perryville: This
Grand Havoc of Battle. (2001).
Inscoe,
John C. and Gordon B. McKinney.The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North
Carolina in the Civil War.
(2000)
Southern
Victory: Inevitable Loss or Possible Victory?
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry Of
Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988).
Beringer, et al. Why the South
Lost the Civil War (1986).
Boritt, Gabor S., ed. Why the
Confederacy Lost (1992).
Civil War
History and Memory: Myth or Reality?
Blight, David W. Race and
Reunion: The
Civil War in American Memory (2001).
Davis, William C. The
Cause Lost:
Myths and Realities of the Confederacy (1996).
5.
MAJOR PAPER—Each student will write
a 25 page paper. Footnotes or Notes at the end
of the paper. In the
bibliography, provide the call number of the book or document.
Each Paper will have two critics.
The quality of the criticism will be part of ones grade.
CRITIC
1: will read for style & content
CRITIC
2: will check and assess research, footnotes, & bibliography.
6.
MAJOR PAPER
1) The
major papers are organized around the CIVIL WAR IN KENTUCKY
2)
Each
student will make reports on the progress of research from time to time.
7.
Possible topics for the MAJOR PAPER
A. Military
Life in Kentucky (common soldier)
in the Civil War
Ginther Collection
Payne Family Papers
Elizabeth Woods MSS
Joseph Underwood Morgan
Edgar Jones
Edwin C. Silliman
Sea Family Papers
G.H. Weeks letters
CW Letters SC 1364
Goodnight Family MSS 148, Confed.
Sympathizers
Mary E. Hoffman, SC 667, Events in
Cynthiana
George H. Hughes, SC 1220
Wickersham Family Papers
Ward, Williamson Dixon SC 627
Rebecca Rowan, Letters. MSS 71
B. Kentucky’s
Reaction to the Emancipation
Proclamation
Official Records
Ky. House & Senate Documents
C. Secession
Crisis in Kentucky
Joseph Holt, Letter. SC 127
Beriah Magoffin, Letters. SC 821
D.
John Hunt Morgan in Kentucky (Fear of, local concern for,
evaluation of)
J.H. Morgan Papers, KL
Newspapers KL & Helm
J.H. Morgan Papers, FHS
E. Kentucky
Newspapers & Civil War
Prentiss Papers
Lucas Collection
Have 7 issues of Lou. Courier
published in BG during CW (printed
in Nashville)
Newspapers KL
F. The
Civil War Career of S.M. Starling
Lewis-Starling Mss
J.H Morgan Mss
Wm. C. Davis, ed. Diary . . .
John S. Jackman (1990)
G. The
1860 Presidential Election in Kentucky
H. The 1864
Presidential Election in Kentucky
James Guthrie SC
Thomas Claiborne Gooch, Letter. SC
810
I. The
Occupation and Battles of Munfordville
J. Reaction
to the Battle of Perryville &
problems growing out of the battle (medical &
taking care of
wounded, etc.)
Ky. 5th Cavalry, SC 1316
K.
Kentucky
Blacks in the Civil War
Josephine (Wells) Covington, SC 236
H,R, DuMarey, SC 1017
Warren County Historic Society, SC
1024
L.
Religion,
Kentucky Religious Leaders and the Civil War
James Madison Pendleton Papers
Geo.
R. Browder Diaries
John
G. Fee
Northcott
Collection
Williamson Dixon Ward, SC 627
George H. Weeks, Letters. SC 798
Goodnight Family. MSS 148, Thomas
Mitchell Goodnight Journal
George H. Hughes, Letters. SC 1220
M.
Kentucky’s
Reaction to the 1862 Confederate invasion
James
Guthrie, SC
Civil
War Letters, Signed Foster, SC 573
McGoffin,
Beriah, SC 821, Details Confed. Forces in Ky.
N.
Civil
War Reunions in Kentucky
GAR
1891 or 1892 in Lou
O.
Albert
Sidney Johnston and the Confederate Defense of Kentucky
Nazro Diary
Ky. 5th Cavalry, SC 1316
P.
Kentucky’s
Reaction to John Brown
Minutes, City of Bowling Green, KL
Todd A. Reynolds, diss. KL
KL newspapers
Berea College Archives
see
CWH, 1978, NC & John Brown
see
CWH, , MASS & JB
Q.
Civil
War Diaries
Nazro
Diary
Wm.
P. Davis Diary, April 18-Dec. 18, 1861
David
McKee Claggett Diary, 1861-62
Matilda
Lucretia Whitaker Papers
Samuel
T. Davis Diary
Robert
A. Dearmin SC NA
Eldress
Nancy Diary (Shaker), printed & MSS
Cincinnatus
D. Bell diaries & letters
Knott Collection
Goodnight Family MSS 148, Journal
James Pleasant Haynes, Diary.
1864-1854
R.
Everyday
Life in Kentucky in the Civil War
Bevie
Cane, 34 letters, age 15-16 Letters (Breckenridge Co)
Underwood
Collection
Knott
Collection
Lewis-Starling
Papers
Wickersham
Family Papers
Williamson
Dixon Ward Journal
Lizzie
Hardin Diary
Nazro
Diary
Davis, ed. Diary . . . John S.
Jackman (1990)
Eldress Nancy Diary (Shaker),
printed & MSS
Joseph I. Younglove Collection
S.
Kentuckians
and Civil War Prisons and Prisoners
Robert
A. Hope Letter
Strange
Collection
Hines
Family Papers
A.W.
Ray
Perkins
Collection
Rebecca
Rowan
Johathan
Wood
Payne
Family Papers
some
published material
Goodnight
Family, Letters. MSS 148
Clarence
Underwood McElroy, Letters. MSS 73
T.
Medical
Problems in Civil War Kentucky (Care, hospitals, doctors, nurses, etc)
Lunsford
Yandell papers
David
W. Yandell, SC 33 & Nancy Baird Inventory
multi-vol.
set of CW Med. & Surgical at KY Lib
H.M. Lawson, Camp Conditions. SC 728
U.
Bushwackers
& Bushwacking in KY; Reactions of Fed. State govt.; to martial law,
etc.
W.B.
Duncan (1 box 7 folders)
Champ
Ferguson Transcript of Trial 1/2 box, 7 folders
Official Records
Thomas Clairborne Gooch, Letter. SC
810
V.
Occupation Forces & Minor
Military Engagements
Jefferson Dean, SC 941 Mill Springs
John A. McClernand, SC 800, Columbus
Ky.
John W. Tuttle, SC 1197, CW Diary,
Memoirs
George H. Weeks, SC 798, Union in
Somerset
Oliver Ellsworth, SC 1359, Union
Occupation Forces
CW Letter, “Brother JSH” SC 811,
Camp Life in Bowling Green
Charles Caley, Occupation. SC 1181
Samuel T. Davis, Occupation. SC 626
8.
Weekly Discussions:
Introduction
DISCUSSION: 500 Word Nature of History Paper
The North: Team 1.
Foner,
Eric. Free
Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before
the
Civil War(1970).
Yee, Shirley. Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860 (1992).
Holt, Michael. The Political Crisis of the 1850s (1978).
Oates, Stephen B. To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown (1970).
Davis, David Brion. The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style (1970).
Johannsen,
Robert. Stephen
A. Douglas (1973).
The North: Team 2.
Fehrenbacher, Don E. The Dred Scott Case: Its
Significance in American Law and Politics (1978).
Stauffer, John. The Black Hearts of Men:
Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation
of Race (2002).
Mayer,
Henry. All
On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery (1998).
Walters,
Ronald G. The
Antislavery Appeal: American Abolition After 1830 (1976).
Stampp, Kenneth. America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (1990).
Reid, Brian Holden. The Origins of the American Civil
War (1996).
DISCUSSION: CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
The South: Team 1.
Walther, Eric H. The Fire-Eaters (1992).
Collins, Bruce. White Society in the Antebellum South (1985).
Cooper, William Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860 (1983).
Ford, Lacy K., Jr. Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860 (1988).
Snay, Mitchell. Gospel
of Disunion: Religion and
Separatism in the Antebellum South (1993).
Freehling, William H. The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay (1990).
Bibliography Paper
Due.
Email a copy to me
noon.
Ransom,
Roger L. Conflict
and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation, and the
American Civil War (1989).
Wright, Gavin. The Political Economy of the Cotton South (1978).
Channing, Steven. Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina (1970).
Thornton, J. Mills. Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800-1860 (1978).
Davis, William C. Rhett: The turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater (2001).
Cooper,
William J. The South and the Politics
of Slavery (1978).
DISCUSSION: Bibliography Papers
DISCUSSION: Bibliography Papers
CIVILIAN LEADERSHIP:
The North, Lincoln, and His Advisors
Team 1
Donald, David. Lincoln (1996).
Paludan, Phillip Shaw. A People’s Contest: The Union and the Civil War, 1861-1865 (1988).
Taylor, John M. While Cannons Roared: The Civil War Behind the Lines (1997).
Curry,
Leonard. Blueprint
for Modern America: Non-Military Legislation of the First Civil War
Congresses
(1968).
Trefousse, Hans L. The
Radical Republicans: Lincoln’s
Vanguard for Racial Justice (1968).
Frederickson, George M. The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union (1965).
CIVILIAN LEADERSHIP:
The South, Davis, and Advisors
Cooper, William J. Jefferson Davis, American (2000).
Hattaway, Herman and Richard E. Beringer. Jefferson Davis, Confederate President (2002).
Davis, William C. Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour (1991).
Schott, Thomas E. Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography (1988).
Davis, William C. Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-eater (2001).
Evans, Eli. Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate (1988).
Woodworth,
Steven
E. Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate
Command
in
the West (1990).
Thomas, Emory N. Robert E. Lee: A Biography (1995).
Robertson, James I., Jr. Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend (1997).
Wert,
Jeffry D. General
Longstreet: The Confederacy’s Most Controversial Soldier,
A Biography
(1993).
Davis, William C. Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol (1974).
Woodworth,
Steven E. Six Armies in
Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattaonooga
Campaigns (1998).
Jones, Archer. Confederate Strategy from Shiloh to
Vicksburg (1961).
Davis, William C. Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol (1974).
Hattaway, Herman and Archer Jones. How the North Won the Civil War (1982).
Sears,
Stephen W. George
B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon (1988).
Catton, Bruce. Grant Takes Command (1969).
Marszalek, John F. Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order (1993).
Cozzens, Peter. General
John Pope: A Life for the Nation
(2000).
Fellman, Michael. Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman (1995).
Engle, Stephen D. Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All (1999).
DISCUSSION: The Hard
War
Team 1
Grimsley,
Mark. The
Hard hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians,
1861-1865
(1995).
Royster,
Charles.
The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and
the
Americans (1991).
Fisher,
Noel C. War
at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East
Tennessee,
1860-1869 (1997).
Ash, Stephen. When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 (1995).
Fellman, Michael. Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War (1989).
Stiles, T.J. Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (2002).
Seminar Papers Due
Email a copy to me by
noon.
DISCUSSION: The Home
Front
Team 2
Neely, Mark E., Jr. The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (1991).
Gallman, J. Matthew. The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front (1994).
Mitchell, Reid. The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home (1993).
Vinovski, Maris. Toward a Social History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays (1990).
Thomas, Emory. The Confederate Nation: 1861-1865 (1979).
Rable, George C. Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1989).
Woodward
and
Elisabeth Muhlenfield, The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished
Civil War
Diaries (1984).
November 29
Presenting seminar
papers.
Team 1
Presenting seminar
papers.
Presenting seminar papers
Footnote Style for History Courses
Manuscripts
Documents
In a note:
Books
In a note:
Articles
Newspapers
Web Cites
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