Summer Session Syllabus

Abraham Lincoln, the Problem of Slavery,
and the Crisis of the Union

University of Delaware
Summer Institute, July 19 - 23, 2004

 

July 19---Introduction:
a) American growth and development--an overview;
b) the problem of southern distinctiveness

July 19---The antebellum South, I: slavery

July 20---The antebellum South, II: division, unity, and the defense of slavery

July 20---The antebellum North: the abolitionist vanguard

July 21---Antebellum politics, I: from second to third party systems

July 21---Antebellum politics, II: Lincoln and the secession crisis

July 22---Lincoln, the war, and emancipation, I

July 22---Lincoln, the war, and emancipation, II