| Title: | Overcoming Our Greatest Challe |
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| Course Section Number: | FRT-101-04 |
| Department: | Freshman Tutorial |
| Description: | HYBRID COURSE. FRT-101-04: Overcoming Our Greatest Challenges:Lessons from Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and Reconstruction Scott Himsel is a lawyer who teaches political science and loves hearing both sides of a good argument. How do we respond to challenges that threaten our very existence? Do we learn our lessons or repeat our mistakes? The Civil War was such a threat. Over 750,000 soldiers died; it was our bloodiest war. Those who amended the Constitution during Reconstruction struggled mightily to solve the problems that caused the war. But some problems of that era still haunt us today, including racism, terrorist violence, intense disputes about government power, and disease (which killed twice as many soldiers as combat). Even though other issues we currently face - abortion, gay rights, affirmative action - did not capture national attention until after this era, we use the constitutional amendments ratified during Reconstruction to resolve them today. Studying the Civil War and Reconstruction-era roots of our current problems will better equip us to help solve them. We will also learn how some of America's most legendary leaders - Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant, the abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass, and those who shaped the Reconstruction-era constitutional amendments - helped their deeply divided fellow citizens respond to great challenges. We also face many great challenges today. We have much to learn. And some of the lessons may surprise you. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 12, 2020 |
| End Date: | November 24, 2020 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/13/2020-11/24/2020 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Baxter Hall, Room 114
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| Faculty: | Himsel, Scott |
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