Topic for Fall 2010: The Civil War in Black and White. Explores race, justice, violence, and nationhood in American Civil War literature. Authors include Stowe, Douglass, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Lincoln, Harper, Chesnutt, and Crane. Visual and historical documents are studied. A substantial research paper is required.

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