Each spring, a Civil War History Residency is offered, under the direction of Gregory Edwards, Ph.D. at SUNY Empire State College at Lakewood. The residency is open to all students collegewide.
Students participate in a three-day field trip to Gettysburg and Antietam. During this trip, they will tour the battlefields and participate with other students in evening discussions on the factors leading to the Northern victory in the war. Students also will be responsible for giving an oral presentation about one of the stations on the battlefield tour.
The final attack at Antietam National Battlefield Park, Sharpsburg, Md.
Students may enroll in the course, attend the residency, and then, complete the other learning activities (required reading and written assignments) in various ways depending on the students' location – such as through a study group, as a one-to-one independent study or through an at-a-distance independent study.
Space is limited and available only to those students who have paid in full by the registration deadline.
4 credits, advanced level liberal studies Prerequisite: American Religious History I
Description
Through this study, students explore the relationship between religion and politics, economics, society and culture in the formation of American history from the Civil War to the present.
Topics covered will include:
countervailing trends in American religious history
4 credits, advanced or introductory level liberal studies
Description
The purpose of this study is to give students the opportunity to survey both the history of Antebellum slavery and the Civil War and the Reconstruction era and to be introduced to the major historical problems. These problems include:
the causes of the war
the character of Antebellum American slavery
the causes behind the Confederacy’s defeat
the Lincoln enigma
the character and legacy of Reconstruction, within the context of the broad sweep of American history from the Colonial period through the Reconstruction era.
continental breakfast at hotel and hotel check out
8 a.m.
Gettysburg National Battlefield Park, Gettysburg, Pa.
noon
lunch delivered to bus picnic area
3 p.m.
depart battlefield
4 p.m.
drop off in Dauphin PA
5:30 p.m.
McDonald’s stop in Lewisburg, Pa. (meal not included in residency price)
8:30 p.m.
drop off in Corning, N.Y.
11:30 p.m.
drop off in Jamestown, N.Y.
Want more information?
Alumni and guests are welcome to join us. $480 guest residency trip fee. Guest registration and payment deadline is March 1, 2019. Contact Gregory Edwards to register for the residency trip as a guest.
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