Writing-Based Inquiry Seminars:
Descriptions for Fall 2007
(please note: section topics and descriptions are subject to change)
Title: The American Civil War
Course: Honors 110
Section: 001
Instructor: Don Dingledine
In this class, we will examine the American Civil War from many angles. We will see how ordinary Americans--men and women, young and old, black and white--experienced the events of the Civil War as they unfolded. In what ways do Americans continue to struggle with the memory and meaning of the Civil War more than 140 years after it ended? What can we learn about American society as we sort the myths from the realities concerning this conflict in which more Americans died than in all subsequent wars combined, yet which also brought America closer to its founding ideals by freeing nearly four million slaves? How might the way we remember the past shape our actions in the present? Novels, photographs, poems, short stories, letters, diaries, and public monuments will help us answer such questions.
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