History 3090    Fall 2001     MacKay
Weeks 6-7    Irreconcilable Differences- Civil War

Amistad Case -- includes journal assignment #7

A huge site of links on the Civil War is: http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/civlink.htm

Another large site is The Civil War Home Page: http://www.civil-war.net/

peruse one of the following Civil War Diaries:

From Duke University, of women: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html

The most famous Civil War diary, by Mary Boykin Miller Chestnut: http://docsouth.unc.edu/chesnut/menu.html

From University of north Carolina, First Person Narratives from the American South: http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/texts.html

WPA Project, slave narratives: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html

Journal  assignment #8: explore one of the diary, letters, narratives sites and respond to the questions: what is/are the perspectives) of the informant/writer? what information can you access through these texts which is different from information in official documents/historians' work?

Ken Burns Civil War series

comments by Matthew Melton: http://www.regent.edu/acad/schcom/rojc/melton.html

information about the series: http://www.mbcnet.org/ETV/C/htmlC/civilwarth/civilwarth.htm

interview with Ken Burns: http://www.umich.edu/~mrev/archives/1996/2-14-96/burns.html

Short essay on "Causes of the Civil War": http://www.ngeorgia.com/history/why.html

The Internet Modern History Sourcebook has a rich site about the Civil War: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook27.html

Includes the 1774 Slaves Appeal to the Governor of Massachusetts: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1774slavesappeal.html

journal assignment #9: View the first or the last episode of the Ken Burns Civil War Series. What is the tone of the film? How is this film a social history of the Civil War? How does the film help you understand some of the issues of the Civil War?