This course will examine military aspects of the war, as well as political developments during it, including the political history of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address, and the Second Inaugural. The course also examines the post-war Amendments and the Reconstruction era.
Instructors: Lucas Morel is the Lewis G. John Term Professor and Acting Head of the Politics Department at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of Lincoln's Sacred Effort and has published widely on Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Ellison. Mackubin T. Owens is Professor of National Security Affairs at the United States Naval War College and editor of the quarterly journal Orbis. He has published widely on U.S. civil-military relations, Lincoln as a war president, and the policy and strategy of the Civil War. He is the author of US Civil-Military Relations After 9/11: Renegotiating the Civil-Military Bargain.