HST 371: Two American Revolutions

Class Program
Credits 1

We will look at the origins and development of the American Revolution from the French and Indian War to the ratification of the Constitution.  Then we will study the Civil War, the role of Abraham Lincoln, and the Second, American Revolution. We will compare how these two events transformed America and American values of liberty and replubicanism. How did the Civil War change the meaning of liberty, freedom and republicanism.