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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of History, Classics and Archaeology : Postgraduate (History, Classics and Archaeology)

Postgraduate Course: The Demise of the Slave-Holding American South, 1846-1877 (PGHC11283)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of History, Classics and Archaeology CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course explores the history and historiography of the American South, 1846-1877. During these years the South was transformed by Union victory in the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves. A confident and powerful slaveholding regime collapsed and southerners both white and black faced the challenge of rebuilding their society, politics and economy on a post-slavery basis. We will analyse historiographical debates on slavery and slaveholding; historians? explanations of southern secession and the Confederacy?s defeat; re-evaluations of the roles played by diverse social groups (slaves, women, planters, nonslaveholding whites); changing interpretations of the reconstruction era; and recent scholarly interest in the historical memory of the Civil War-era South.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students should have demonstrated in presentations, seminar discussions, and essays:

? an advanced understanding of the major events and historical trends that affected the American South between 1846 and 1877.

? awareness of the major historiographical debates involving the Civil War-era American South and its system of slavery, including the ability to assess historians? positions in these debates and to formulate original interventions therein.

? the ability to evaluate critically primary sources, secondary sources and the seminar contributions of their colleagues.

? the use of these critical skills to advance clear, well-reasoned and independent arguments in both written and oral forms.

Where relevant, students should also have begun to devise a plan of research for the MSc dissertation that takes into account and critically responds to appropriate historiographical contexts.
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Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
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Contacts
Course organiserProf David Silkenat
Tel: (0131 6)50 4614
Email: David.Silkenat@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
Email: Lindsay.Scott@ed.ac.uk
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