The American South, 1800-1865: Slavery, Secession and Civil War
FAIN: FS-10334-76
Emory University (Atlanta, GA 30322-1018)
Bell I. Wiley (Project Director: January 1976 to present)
A seminar on the South from 1800 through 1865, with emphasis on slavery, secession, and Civil War. Attention will be given to changing interpretations as reflected in writings of the last half-century, and to influences, national and regional, that have contributed to revisionism.