Over the last year or so I have been diligently, albeit intermittently, following through with a series of edX courses on the American Civil War and the years of Reconstruction in its aftermath; the consequences of which resound to this day.
Delivered by Columbia University and Prof. Eric Foner; a lengthy but incredibly enlightening intellectual pursuit that I can highly recommended to anyone interested in this defining period of US history – I only realise now how very much that is so (not to mention how ignorant I was!).
The Battle of Antietam 1862, by Kurz & Allison (1878)
My course notes are here on the Downloads page (and also accessible from the main menu).