Textbooks and Required Readings:
Students are required to read the following books:
James M. McPherson, Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction,
2d ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992).
Mitchell Snay, Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).
Thomas G. Dyer, Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
Michael Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994).
The professor may, from time to time, assign additional readings
to supplement the required books listed above.
Bibliography: Listings of recommended
supplemental readings can be found in the principal textbook,
James M. McPherson, Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, pages 633-684.
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Dr. Harold D. Tallant, Department of History, Georgetown College
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