READINGS AND CLASS DISCUSSION
September 16: The
early 1850s and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
New York Tribune :
January
6, 1854
January 11, 1854
January 26, 1854
South Carolina Mercury:
January 23, 1854
Daily Courant :
May 24, 1854
September 23: The
South and Slavery
Slave Mortality and Survival Table (1856)
The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass
Introduction
A General
Survey of the Slave Plantation
The Dred Scott Case
Brief Overview
Trial
Syllabus
"A Hard Shove..." : The Impact of Dred Scott"
Frederick Law Olmstead, A Journey in the Seaboard States (1856)
Introduction
A
Tobacco Plantation in Virginia
Free-Labor
Farm in Virginia
How They Are Fed
Dred Scott: the media reaction
Albany Evening Journal
March 9, 1857
Richmond Enquirer
March
10, 1857
Richmond Enquirer
March
13, 1857
South Carolina Mercury
March 17, 1857
Southern Enterprise
March 26, 1857
September 30: The Politics of the 1850s and Harper's Ferry
South Carolina Mercury October
19
Albany Evening Journal
October
19
Penn. Public Ledger
October
19
Albany Evening Journal October
20
Nashville Union
October 21
Boston Daily Evening
October 24
Yorkville Enquirer
October 27
Natchez Daily Courier
October
28
Raleigh Register
November 2
Albany Evening Journal
December 1
Mobile Register
December
2
John Brown's Last Speech to the Court
Discussion Questions for September 30
October 7: The
Election of 1860
Davis' Inaugural
Speech
Lincoln's New Haven Speech
1860 Democratic
Party platform
1860 Republican
Party platform
Georgia's
Declaration of Secession
South
Carolina's Declaration of Secession
Lincoln's
Inaugural Speech
Discussion Questions for October 7
October 14: The
Nature of Battle
Johnson Family Papers: Letter
of December 18,1862
Letter of December
25, 1862
Letter of March 10,
1863
Letters of David Humphrey Blair:
Letter of February 19, 1864
Letter
of February 23, 1864
Letter
of April 4, 1864
Letter of June 5, 1864
Letter of September 20, 1864
Letters of Major General George Meade to his wife
June 29 to July 21, 1863
"My Dear Josie" letters: April 1863
Discussion Questions for October 14
October 21: The Soldiers' War
Movie: "Simply Murder"
"The
Shady Side of the Family Tree: Civil War Union Court-Martial Files"
"Christmas
in the Civil War
Letters
of Edmond Jones
Letter of Tally Simpson
Discussion Questions for October 21
*FIRST ASSIGNMENT DUE*
October 28: Class discussion of Crane's The Red Badge of Courage
For the Crane discussion you should read the text itself and
as many of the following articles as possible: Crews,
Wyndham, Stallman, Henderson, and Kaplan
Experiences of
a Confederate Soldier in Camp and Prison
Eyewitness to War
November 4: Women
and War
Women Soldiers of the Civil War
Reminiscences
of Catherine Hunsecker
Reminiscences of Ida Baker
Reminiscences
of Mary Anne Lipscomb
Simpson, America's Civil War, chapter 6
November 11 Rememberance Day - NO CLASS
November 18: The Homefront
Emancipation
Proclamation
Alice Williamson Diary
Drew Faust, "Alters of Sacrifice"
Journal of American History (76)1990
IMPORTANT REMINDER: Students who are scheduled to give presentations on the 25th must distribute their handouts to the class by this class. Please see the presentation information.
November 25: Student presentations. Students presenting on December 2 must distribute their handouts by this class.
December 2: Student presentations
*FINAL ESSAY DUE*