Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War

Session 1 with Professor Owens: 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)

Topic: Lincoln Over the Years

Reading:

• Edmund Wilson, "The Battle Hymn" and "Abraham Lincoln" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Richard Hofstadter, "Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Lerone Bennett, "Was Abe Lincoln a White Supremacist?" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Joshua Kleinfeld, "Lincoln and the New America" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Charnwood, Lincoln

Session 2 with Professor Owens: 9:00 am - 10:30 pm (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)

Topic: Ante-Bellum America

Reading:

• Battle Cry of Freedom, Prologue, Chapters 1-4

Session 3 with Professor Morel: 10:45 am - 12:15 pm (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)

Topic: Slavery and the Founding

Reading:

• Anastaplo, Chapters 1-4
• Declaration of Independence (Declaration/Constitution booklet)
• Bradford, "The Heresy of Equality" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Jaffa, "Equality and the American Revolution: In Reply to Bradford's 'The Heresy of Equality'" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Jaffa, Crisis, Chapters 14, 15, 17
• West, Vindicating the Founders, Chapter 1 "Slavery" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Storing, "Slavery and the Moral Foundations of the American Republic" (Photocopied Reading Packet)

Session 5 with Professor Morel: 9:00 am - 10:30 am (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)

Topic: Previous Topic Continued

Session 6 with Professor Morel: 10:45 am - 12:15 pm (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)

Topic: Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Reading:

• Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided, Chapters 11-13, 18-20
• Johannsen, First, Second, and Seventh Debates
• Anastaplo, Chapters 8-11
• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• Aug 1, 1858, Fragment On Slavery (p. 427)
• Oct 1, 1858, Fragment on Slavery (p. 477)
• April 6, 1859 Letter to Henry L. Pierce and others (p. 488)
• Sept 30, 1859, Speech to Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (p. 493)
• Dec 20, 1859 Letter to Jesse W. Fell (p. 510)
• 1860, Fragment: The Constitution and the Union (p. 513)

Lincoln on Language with Professor Schramm: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)

Guest Lecture with Professor Allen Guelzo: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)

Topic: The Emancipation Proclamation

Session 7 with Professor Morel: 9:00 am - 10:30 am (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)

Topic: Previous Topic Continued (Lincoln-Douglas Debates)

Session 8 with Professor Morel: 10:45 am - 12:15 pm (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)

Topic: The Election of 1860

Reading:

• McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Chapters 6-8
• Anastaplo, Chapter 12
• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• Cooper Union Speech (p. 517)
• February 11, 1861 farewell speech at Springfield (p. 568)
• February 21, 1861 farewell Address to NJ Senate (p. 574)
• March 4, 1861 First Inaugural Address (p. 579)
• May 25, 1861 letter to Ephraim D. and Phoebe Ellsworth (p. 593)

Session 10 with Professor Owens: 9:00 am - 10:30 am (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)

Topic: Lincoln as War Leader

Reading:

• McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Chs. 10-28
• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• September 22, 1861 letter to Orestes Browning (p. 613)
• December 3, 1861 Annual Message to Congress (p. 616)
• May 19, 1862 Presidential Proclamation (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• July 28, 1862 letter to Bullitt (p. 648)
• August 22, 1862 letter to Horace Greeley (p. 651)
• September 28, 1862 letter to Hannibal Hamblin (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• September 30, 1862 Meditation on the Divine Will (p. 655)
• December 1, 1862 Annual Message to Congress (p. 666)
• December 23, 1862 Letter to Fanny McCullough (p. 688)
• January 8, 1863 letter to John A. McClernand (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• July 13, 1863 letter to Ulysses S. Grant (p. 710)
• July 14, 1863 letter to George S. Meade (p. 711)
• July 30, 1863 Presidential Order (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• August 5, 1863 letter to Nathaniel P. Banks (p. 714)
• August 17 and November 2, 1863 letters to James H. Hackett (p. 718, p. 732)
• August 26, 1863 letter to James C. Conkling (p. 720)
• December 8, 1863 Presidential Proclamation (p. 738)
• December 8, 1863 Annual Message to Congress (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• December 15, 1863 Letter to Thomas Cottman (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• March 13, 1864 letter to Michael Hahn (p. 745)
• April 4, 1864 letter to Albert G. Hodges (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• April 30, 1864 letter to U.S. Grant (p. 750)
• June 9, 1864 Reply to Delegates from the Nation Union League (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• July 8, 1864 Presidential Proclamation (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• September 12, 1864 Draft of a Letter to Isaac M. Schermerhorn (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• September 19, 1864 letter to William T. Sherman (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• October 19, 1864 Response to a Serenade (p. 760)
• November 10, 1864 Response to a Serenade (p. 763)
• November 21, 1864 letter to Lydia Bixby (p. 766)
• December 6, 1864 Annual Message to Congress (p. 773)
• December 26, 1864 Letter to William T. Sherman (p. 789)
• January 19, 1865 letter to U.S. Grant (p. 790)
• March 1, 1865 Reply to Notification Committee (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• March 4, 1865 Second Inaugural (p. 792)
• March 15, 1865 letter to Thurlow Weed (p. 794)
• April 10, 1865 Response to a Serenade (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• April 11, 1865 Last Public Address (p. 796)

Guest Lecture with Dr. Herman Belz: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)

Topic: Lincoln, Reconstruction, and the Post-Civil War Amendments

Session 12 with Professor Owens: 9:00 am - 10:30 am (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)

Topic: Emancipation and Black Soldiers

Reading:

• Lincoln, "Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• Annual Message to Congress (1862) (p. 666-688)
• Final Emancipation Proclamation (p. 689)
• Anastaplo, Chapter 14
• Lincoln, "Order of Retaliation" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Lincoln, "To Stephen A. Hulburt" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Lincoln, "To Nathaniel Banks" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• Annual Message to Congress (1864) (p. 773)
• Fehrenbacher, "Only His Stepchildren: Lincoln and the Negro" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• McPherson, "The 'Glory' Story" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Frederick Douglass, "Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" (Photocopied Reading Packet)
• Lucas E. Morel, "Forced Into Gory Lincoln Revisionism," Claremont Review of Books (Claremont Institute, Fall 2000), S12 (Photocopied Reading Packet)

Session 13 with Professors Morel and Owens: 10:45 am - 12:15 pm (Seminar Room, Founders Hall)

Topic: "A New Birth of Freedom"

Reading:

• Basler, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
• Gettysburg Address (p. 734)
• September 4, 1864 letter to Eliza Gurney (p. 757)
• Second Inaugural (p. 792)
• Anastaplo, Chapters 15-16
• Morel, Chapter on the Second Inaugural (Photocopied Reading Packet)