U.S. Social Movements through Biography

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 21.01.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Learning Objectives
  4. Content Objectives
  5. Teaching Strategies
  6. Activities
  7. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  8. Notes
  9. Bibliography

Remembering the Civil War: A Primary Source Comparative Study of Rhetoric and Author Purpose

Kariann Flynn

Published September 2021

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1 Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past." The Journal of American History 91, no. 4 (2005): 1233-263. Accessed July 22, 2021. doi:10.2307/3660172.

2 James V. Wertsch & Henry L. Roediger III “Collective memory: Conceptual foundations and theoretical approaches.” Memory, 16: (2008): 318-326, DOI: 10.1080/09658210701801434

3 Gettysburg: An American Story, Secondfilm LLC DBA Striped Ent., (2014; New York: Infobase, 2014), Streaming video.  Accessed July 21, 2021. https://fod-infobase-com.yale.idm.oclc.org/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=98527&xtid=60614.

4 David Blight. “Introductions:  Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination?” (lecture, Yale University: Open Yale Courses, New Haven, CT.) http://oyc.yale.edu. Accessed July 18, 2021. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

5 “Causes of the Civil War,” Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), last modified 2003-2014. https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/causes-of-the-civil-war/.  Accessed July 17, 2021.

6 Warren W. Hassler and Jennifer L. Weber, "American Civil War." Encyclopedia Britannica, last modified April 5, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Civil-War.

7 “What is Rhetoric?”  University of Illinois Center for Academic Success.  Accessed July 20, 2021.  https://www.uis.edu/cas/thelearninghub/writing/handouts/rhetorical-concepts/what-is-rhetoric/

8 “Gettysburg: A New Birth of Freedom,”  National Park Service, last modified July 23, 2021, https://www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm

9 Edward L. Ayers, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of American 1859-1863 (W.W. Norton & Company, 2003). 

10 “Gettysburg,” American Battlefield Trust, Accessed July 16, 2021.  https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/gettysburg

11Gettysburg: An American Story, Secondfilm LLC DBA Striped Ent., (2014; New York: Infobase, 2014), Streaming video.  Accessed July 21, 2021. https://fod-infobase-com.yale.idm.oclc.org/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=98527&xtid=6061.

12 Abraham Lincoln, 19 November 1863, Albert H. Small Document Gallery, Smithsonian.  https://americanhistory.si.edu/documentsgallery/exhibitions/gettysburg_address_1.html

13 Edward L. Ayers, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of American 1859-1863 (W.W. Norton & Company, 2003).

14 George Gordon Meade to Mrs. George G. Meade, 8 July, 1863.  The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade , Major-General United States Army, Perseus Collection, Tufts University.  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0134%3Achapter%3D6

15 Robert E. Lee to (C.S.A.) President Jefferson Davis, August 22, 1863, Robert E. Lee Papers, Washington and Lee University Manuscript Collections, Washington and Lee University.  https://dspace.wlu.edu/xmlui/handle/11021/21510

16 Samuel Chase Hodgman to his brother, July 16, 1863, United States Civil War, Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/badd0106bd03b6f4d593e3ca73b097b4.

17 William W. Edwards to Richard B. Paschal, July 24, 1863.  Locke W. Smith Jr. Collection, North Carolina Digital Collections. https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/collection/p15012coll8/id/11246

18 Margaret S. Creighton, “The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History, Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle,” New York: Basic Books, 2005. 

19 “Elizabeth Thorn,” Gettysburg Daily, last updated May 9, 2008.  https://www.gettysburgdaily.com/elizabeth-thorn/

20 Tillie, Alleman (Pierce), “At Gettysburg: What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle, a True Narrative.” (New York: W. Lake Borland, 1889). https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/alleman/gettysburg/gettysburg.html

21 Samuel Wineburg, “Unnatural and essential: The nature of historical thinking,” Teaching History, (129), 6-11 (2007). Retrieved July 21, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/43259304

22 Frederick, Douglass, “Our Work is Not Done,” December 3, 1863.  Teaching American History.  https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/our-work-is-not-done/

23  Frederick Douglass.  Our Work is Not Done.  December 3, 1863.  Teaching American History.  https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/our-work-is-not-done/

24 Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, “Teacher Modeling Using Complex Informational Texts,” The Reading Teacher, 69 (1), 63-69 (2015). Retrieved July 20, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/24574715

25 “Document Analysis with Students,” National Archives, Accessed June 10, 2021 https://www.docsteach.org/resources/document-analysis

26 Scott Filkins, “Strategy Guide: Socratic Seminar.” ReadWriteThink. https://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/socratic-seminars#research-basis

27 Nigel Caplan and Monica Farling, “A Dozen Heads Are Better Than One:  Collaborative Writing in Genre-Based Pedagogy,” TESOL Journal, 8.3, (2016).

28 “Document Analysis with Students,” National Archives, Accessed June 10, 2021 https://www.docsteach.org/resources/document-analysis

29 Jefferson Davis to Congress, 29 April 1861, The Avalon Project, Yale University.  https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_m042961.asp

30 Abraham Lincoln, 15 April 1861, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress.  https://www.loc.gov/item/mal0907400/

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