MSAD#44 Adult & Continuing Education

Bill Andrews is back with another history course. This course topic is the American Civil War, specifically the America took to get there. 

This course is for WMSC members only or for those who are members of an affiliated Maine Senior College Network program. For more information on membership and to register as a member, please click this link: https://sad44.coursestorm.com/category/membership

In a time of intense political polarization when some Americans have suggested that the nation ight be heading to a new civil war, it may be useful to review how the American Civil War occurred. This course will explore how that happened, beginning with the establishment of the Constitution in 1787 and following through the political and social events that culminated in the seccession of Southern states and the commencement of war in 1861. This is NOT a course on the Civil War but instead a map of the road that took the country there. Such a review of that map will allow us to speculate on whether another civil war is likely or even possible. Documents from writers on all sides of the many issues (slavery, westward expansion, economic conflict, sectionalism, abolition, etc.) that led to the conflict will provide the basis for discussions. Participants will receie a copy of Causes of the Civil War, edited by Kenneth Stampp, which continas those documents. 

When: Mondays from April 21-May 19 (five sessions)

Time: 10:00-11:30 am

Where: Bethel Historical Society