HIS5015 Civil War Writers
This seminar explores the history of the American Civil War through the lens of writers' direct responses to the crisis. The course will examine political essays and speeches, letters and diaries, religious sermons, fiction and poetry. Writers studied will include Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, J. W. DeForest and Louisa May Alcott as well as unpublished soldiers and civilians.