The Civil War and Reconstruction – 1865-1890: The Unfinished Revolution

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Syllabus

  • The dramatic change in historians’ interpretations of the period in the last two generations
  • How Reconstruction turned on issues of continued relevance today, such as:
    • Who is an American citizen and what are citizens’ rights?
    • What is the relationship between political and economic freedom?
    • Which has the primary responsibility for protecting Americans’ rights – the federal or state governments?
    • How should public authorities respond to episodes of terrorism?
    • Rewriting of the laws and Constitution to incorporate the principle of equality regardless of race
    • The accomplishments and failings of Reconstruction governments in the South
    • The reasons for violent opposition in the South and for the northern retreat from Reconstruction
    • The consolidation at the end of the nineteenth century of a new system of white supremacy

Prerequisite

None

Instructors

Eric Foner
DeWitt Clinton Professor of History
Columbia University

Tim Shenk
Graduate student in History
Columbia University

Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning

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Columbia University is a private university located in Morningside Heights, in the north-western part of the borough of Manhattan, in New York (United States). Its origins lie in King's College, founded in 1754 by King George II of Great Britain. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States and is part of the Ivy League group of eight of the country's oldest, most famous, most prestigious and most elitist universities.

Columbia is one of the most selective and prestigious universities in the world. The admission rate was 5.1% in 2019, comparable to Harvard and Stanford. Ranked first in the United States for research, it is sixth in the world (fourth in the United States) in the CUWR ranking of the world's top 1,000 universities and eighth in the Shanghai University Rankings.

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