Welcome to HIST 246 for the Fall 2011 semester at Rice University. You may wish to have a look around by reading about the course, looking over the assignments, and browsing through important dates.
During the first week of class, you should also work on purchasing these required books for the course:
- Thomas J. Brown, The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004). ISBN: 978-0312397913, Amazon
- Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (Vintage, paperback, 2008). ISBN: 978-0307277329, Amazon
- Eric Foner, Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and its Legacy (Louisiana State University Press, paperback, new edition, 2007). ISBN: 978-0807132890, Amazon
- Bruce Levine, Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War (Oxford, paperback, 2007). ISBN: 978-0195315868, Amazon
- Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Vintage, paperback, 1999). ISBN: 978-0679758334, Amazon. Please note that this book is NOT available at the Rice University bookstore.
If you have any general questions about the course, please use the contact information in the sidebar of this page to reach Dr. McDaniel, or leave a comment on this post.