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Lincoln and Civil War America

SOC-958
3 Credits
Online
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SOC-958
3 Credits
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Instructor: Dr. Allen Carden
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The greatest crisis facing the United States since independence was the secession of eleven southern slave states determined to create a separate nation based on the perpetuation of human slavery. Elected president of the United States in 1960, it fell to Abraham Lincoln to manage this crisis, wage war to preserve the Union of states as one nation, not two, and ultimately to end the enslavement of nearly four million Americans. Lincoln was both an unlikely candidate to face this daunting national challenge, and ultimately the best choice to do so. The course will go beyond Lincoln the legend to explore a very human leader, beset by challenges that few could have borne. The issues of Lincoln's day will be analyzed and will contextualize Lincoln's greatness, and our current politics.

NOTE: Required textbooks and DVD must be purchased separately.

This course is applicable towards the United States History Certificate.

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Dr. Allen Carden

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As both a teacher of history at the college and university level for over four decades, and a researcher and writer of history, my love for studying the past and sharing my insights has only increased with time. A great history class in my junior year of high school grabbed my interest and helped establish a trajectory that has been so much more than a job; it has been an adventure, a passion, and I would even say a ministry in which the search for truth and exposure of historical error has fascinated me. I love taking complex historical events and persons and trying to make them understandable and relevant to my students. It is my privilege to be not only an instructor of continuing education courses for Fresno Pacific University, but also to be a full-time professor of history at this fine institution. One of the joys of my professional life life has been developing 17 courses for FPU's continuing education offerings, primarily in history but also in education and cross-cultural studies. Enriching the fund of knowledge for teachers through these courses has been very satisfying.