Division and Reunion The Civil War in America's Story
by Chuck Taft

1. Could the United States have been talked off “the edge of the precipice”?
1.1. Differences between N & S
1.2. Secession arguments
1.3. The Decade of Decisions
1.3.1. Compromise of 1850
1.3.2. Kansas Nebraska Act
1.3.3. Dred Scott Decision
1.3.4. Lincoln Douglas Debates
1.3.5. John Brown and Harpers Ferry
1.3.6. Election of 1860
1.4. Why the Civil War? from historians
2. What is the Civil War story of _________________?
2.1. Soldier life
2.2. Life on the Home Front
2.3. Civil War prisoners
2.4. US Colored Troops
2.5. Women
3. How do we view Abraham Lincoln?
3.1. Lincoln's Life and Legend
3.2. Emancipation Proclamation
3.3. Expanding Presidential Power
3.4. Lincoln's speeches
3.5. Assassination
3.6. Northern vs. Southern viewpoint
4. Did the Union win or did the Confederacy lose the Civil War?
4.1. Major battles and events
4.1.1. Fort Sumter
4.1.2. Bull Run
4.1.3. Shiloh and the West
4.1.4. Antietam
4.1.5. Fredericksburg
4.1.6. Chancellorsville
4.1.7. Gettysburg
4.1.8. Vicksburg
4.1.9. Petersburg
4.1.10. Appomattox