2012-2013 Academic Catalog 
    
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2012-2013 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 215 - The Age of Lincoln

Type of Course: Proseminar
A reading, discussion and research course focusing on an extraordinary individual and his times. Emphasizes biography and the relationship between the private and the public in Abraham Lincoln’s life, which becomes the vehicle for better understanding the distinctive problems and concerns of American society, culture and politics from approximately 1815 through the end of the Civil War.