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History 785.03
Spring Quarter 2003
Prof. Mark Grimsley
363 Dulles Hall
Tel. 292-1855
E-mail: grimsley.1@osu.edu
This is a graduate readings course focusing on some of the major literature
concerning the Civil War era, with an emphasis on recent scholarship.
Office Hours
Mondays and Thursdays, 11:30-12:30; and by appointment
Enrollment
All students must be officially enrolled in the course by the end of the second
full week of the quarter. No requests to add the course will be approved by the
department chair after that time. Enrolling officially and on time is solely the
responsibility of each student.
Requirements
Written Assignments
Two book reviews. Each review will consist of a holistic summary of the book=s
thesis and argument (about 3 pages), an analysis of its strengths, weaknesses,
significance, etc. (about 2 pages), and a precis of its critical reception based
on published reviews and historiographical essays (about 2 pages). [200 points
each]
One 15-page research paper on a topic to be mutually agreed upon between the
student and instructor. [300 points]
Papers are due in class on the date specified. Late papers will be penalized a
full letter grade for each day they are overdue. No AIncompletes@ for the course
will be granted.
Class Participation [300 points]
Each week, two students will be responsible for leading the discussion. It is
expected that they will come prepared with a) a thorough grasp of the book under
review; b) background information on the author; c) familiarity with the book=s
critical reception; d) a sense of the book=s relationship to works already
discussed; and e) two or three provocative, open-ended questions to launch the
discussion and a strategy for guiding the discussion in the most fruitful
directions.
Please bear in mind that discussion leaders are not expected to present a report
to the group, but rather to serve as Aresource persons@ to strengthen the
discussion. It=s the responsibility of every one in the class to be thoroughly
prepared and engaged.
Books
Books for the course should be ordered directly from a bookstore. To assist you,
the relevant publishing information is given below. Prices are those at
Amazon.com.
Background Reading (Required):
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson
Publisher: Ballantine Books (Trd Pap); Reissue edition (January 1989)
ISBN: 0345359429
$12.60
A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 [ABRIDGED]
by Eric Foner
Publisher: HarperCollins (paper); (January 1990)
ISBN: 0060964316
$11.20
Background Reading (Recommended)
Writing the Civil War : The Quest to Understand
by James M. McPherson and William J. Cooper (Editors)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press; (October 2000)
ISBN: 1570033897
$11.87
Required Readings:
The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's
Relations to Slavery
by Don E. Fehrenbacher, Ward M. McAfee (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (December 2002)
ISBN: 0195158059
$13.97
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
by James M. McPherson
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (September 1998)
ISBN: 0195124995
$11.17
The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865
by Alice Fahs
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr; (February 24, 2003)
ISBN: 0807854638
$13.97
The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the
Americans (Vintage Civil War Library)
by Charles Royster
Publisher: Vintage Books; Reprint edition (January 1993)
ISBN: 0679738789
$12.60
The Hard Hand of War : Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians,
1861-1865
by Mark Grimsley
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); (April 1997)
ISBN: 0521599415
$22.00
The Confederate War
by Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; (March 1999)
ISBN: 0674160568
$11.17
Why the South Lost the Civil War
by Richard E. Beringer, William N., Jr. Still (Contributor), Archer Jones
(Contributor)
Publisher: University of Georgia Press; Reprint edition (September 1991)
ISBN: 0820313963
$17.47
Slaves No More : Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War
by Ira Berlin (Author), Barbara J. Fields (Author), Steven F. Miller (Author),
Joseph P. Reidy
(Author), Leslie S. Rowland (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); Reprint edition (February 1993)
ISBN: 0521436923
$19.00
Final Freedom : The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth
Amendment
by Michael Vorenberg (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd); (June 2001)
ISBN: 0521652677
$21.00
Yankee Stepfather: General O.O. Howard and the Freedmen
by William S. McFeely
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (April 1994)
ISBN: 0393311783
$10.95
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
by David W. Blight
Publisher: Belknap Pr; (March 2002)
ISBN: 0674008197
$11.87
Schedule
WEEK 1. Organizational
WEEK 2.
The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's
Relations to Slavery, by Don E. Fehrenbacher, Ward M. McAfee (Editor)
WEEK 3.
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, by James M. McPherson
WEEK 4.
The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865, by
Alice Fahs
WEEK 5.
The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the
Americans by Charles Royster
The Hard Hand of War : Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians,
1861-1865
by Mark Grimsley
WEEK 6.
The Confederate War, by Gary W. Gallagher
Why the South Lost the Civil War, by Richard E. Beringer, William N., Jr. Still
(Contributor), Archer Jones (Contributor)
WEEK 7.
Slaves No More : Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War, by Ira Berlin
et al.
WEEK 8.
Final Freedom : The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth
Amendment, by Michael Vorenberg
WEEK 9.
Yankee Stepfather: General O.O. Howard and the Freedmen, by William S. McFeely
WEEK 10.
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, by David W. Blight.
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