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This Day in History: Fort Sumter and the Beginning of the Civil War (HIS 455)

Continuing Education Course

Discuss this turning point in American history and examine the pivotal events that led up to it such as the compromise of 1850, Kansas crisis, Dred Scott decision, John Brown and Harpers Ferry, the southern states process of secession in 1860-61, the Lincoln and Davis inaugural addresses, and more.