Welcome to HIST 246 for the Spring 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 the schedule.
If you are enrolled in this class, please fill out the student info web survey by January 18 at the latest. Please do not fill out this form unless you are already registered for the course in ESTHER. If you don’t already have one, you will also need to create a Google Account for this course.
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
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.