HIUS 3071

About 250pgs of reading each week, one paper, mid-term and finals.

Hard class but enjoyable

Great class. He is an old guy that is still energitic and entertaining. Probably the best history professor at UVA.

It's a good class one in class mid term one eight page paper and one take home final lots of assigned reading but you dont need to do all of it

Very knowledgeable professor, but do not take this class if you aren't interested in politics.

Not too bad of a class, as long as you keep up with the readings you will be fine

people say there is a book we were supposed to read at the end of his class that we should read at the beginning of his class? what book is that?

Good class that covers the political aspects of the reasons the Civil War broke out. Holt is an engaging lecturer though there are a lot of notes to be written down.

Just read his book, come to class, and take good notes.

This class was enjoyable, but fairly frustrating when you arrive at the end and realize all you ever had to do was read Professor Holt's book to basically find all the information that he ever presented in lecture. Nonetheless, he's a fairly animated lecturer at moments, and the content is interesting and interpreted in a novel manner. I would recommend taking the class, but reading Professor Holt's book at the beginning rather than the end. And all the other readings can be skimmed, except for Uncle Tom's Cabin, about which you'll have to write a paper.