This spring ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ undergraduates will study the political, social and economic events associated with the U.S. Civil War in a special course co-taught by Professor of History and Professor of English . “The American Civil War” is one of several classes on campus that are related to the sesquicentennial of the beginning of the Civil War and the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. Humanities 161 is offered by the .