Mar 10, 2026  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

HIST 374: Environmental History of the Civil War


(1 Unit)
In this course, we will study the war (including the lead-up and the aftermath) through the prism of environmental history, examining how the land and the natural world more generally shaped and were shaped by the institution of slavery, white supremacy, the cataclysm of war, and the struggle over the meaning of freedom in the war’s aftermath. Sacks