The Civil War & Reconstruction

Posted By Robert Shelton on January 28, 2010

This is the course website for HIS317–The Civil War & Reconstruction, taught by Dr. Robert Shelton.  On these pages you will find a course syllabus, readings, links, assignments, and other materials you will need for the course.  You will also find places to post your work for review and comment by the instructor and your classmates.  Have a good semester!

Office: RT1325
Office Hours: TTH 10 am to noon
Phone: 216-687-3917
Email: r.s.shelton@csuohio.edu

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Posted By Robert Shelton on April 19, 2012

Please follow the link and take a few minutes to fill out the survey for the Center for Teaching Excellence.  Remember that for this class we used Google Books (research for your paper/debate on Andrew Johnson’s trial) and Google Docs (lecture outlines).

Google Tools Survey

Thanks!

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Posted By Robert Shelton on March 5, 2012

The midterm exam is now available on Blackboard Learn (look under Course Content if it’s not immediately visible on your home page).  You must complete Part 1 by Friday night at midnight.  Part 2 of the exam will be in an in-class essay on the Tuesday after Spring Break.  Please bring a Blue Book, notes for your essay (limit yourself to a single sheet of printer paper), and knowledge of the person you were assigned for the Trial of Andrew Johnson.  See the study guide for what you need to know for the essay.

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Posted By Robert Shelton on March 4, 2012

Study Guide

Study Guide
Midterm
History 317

Possible multiple choice and/or short identification/short answer (a short paragraph—3, 4 sentences identifying the subject and its/his importance or answering a question).
The War with Mexico & The Wilmot Proviso
Fugitive Slave law of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Republican Party
Dred Scott Case
Secession
Border States
Peninsula Campaign
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Vicksburg
Copperheads
Election of 1864
Emancipation Proclamation
Black Soldiers & key engagements–The Crater, Fort Pillow
Financing, Union and Confederates
Weapons and tactics
Conscription
U.S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
George McClellan
William T. Sherman
Special Field Order #15
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln

Part 2 of the midterm exam will be taken in class on the Tuesday after Spring Break.  You will be required to write an essay o the person assigned for the Andrew Johnson debate–a rough draft, in essence, of the research paper.  You should consider the following when preparing for the in-class essay; some of the questions may be difficult or impossible to answer; some may require speculation based on other factors; answer as many as you can.

1. Biographical facts
• Place of Birth
• Age
• Family—spouse, children, important kin, etc.
• Education
• Occupation

2. Political Biography

• State Represented
• brief summary of overall or most well-known political philosophy—
• e.g., Whiggish belief in progress and government activism to promote development; state’s rights conservatism; abolitionism; Democrat opposition to Eastern bankers and centralized money power; etc.
• Political party affiliations
• Before, during, and after the war—reasons for any changes
• Political stance on the following, including changes and reasons for any changes:
• pre-war on slavery, slavery’s expansion, popular sovereignty, the South, secession
• election of 1860
• the war effort
• the Emancipation Proclamation
• election of 1864
• Presidential Reconstruction policies
• Violence against African American freedmen (New Orleans and Memphis particularly)
• Citizenship & voting rights of black men
• the Freedmen’s Bureau and the Civil Rights Bill of 1867 or the 14th Amendment or both
• the money question—hard money or soft
• the impeachment of Andrew Johnson—for or against and, briefly, why

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Posted By Robert Shelton on January 17, 2012

Thoroughly read the pages on this site and take self-test. Then come back to the course website on the Cleveland History Blogs and take the Plagiarism Quiz.

http://abacus.bates.edu/cbb/index8698.html?q=node/60

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Posted By Robert Shelton on January 15, 2012

All written assignments to be completed outside of class must be submitted through turnitin.com.  Here’s how you use it:

Undergraduate students enrolled in HIS 317:  Instructions for turnitin.com

Graduate students enrolled in HIS 517:  Instructions for turnitin.com

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Posted By Robert Shelton on January 14, 2012

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Posted By Robert Shelton on January 19, 2011

Here is the link to the Plagiarism Resource Website.

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