The Civil War and
Reconstruction
In the final session participants examined a series of websites and
documents pertaining to Reconstruction during and after the Civil War.
Participants worked in groups evaluating the documents and preparing
lesson ideas that drew from the materials.
Excerpts
from Slave Narratives
This website, prepared by Steven Mintz of the University of Houston,
provides a bibliography of online resources. Take a look at the section
"'The Walls Come Tumblin' Down': Emancipation," with nine documents.
Women and
Freedman's Aid
This document project, which is part of the Women & Social Movements
website, focuses on white women and freedmen's aid, exploring conflict
between men and women over aid efforts, and to a lesser degree, conflict
between white women and freedwomen over the terms of these programs.
The Fight for Equal Rights
The following lesson plan is part of a much larger "Digital Classroom"
maintained by the National Archives. At a later time you may want to
look over such groupings of resources as "Teaching with Documents" and
"History in the Raw," both accessible from the Digital Classroom homepage.
For now, clicking on this link will take you to "The Fight for Equal
Rights." Take a look at the key document for this lesson and the
activities suggested, beginning with the section "Analyzing the Document."
Freedman
and Southern Society
The Freedmen and Southern Society Project (University of Maryland) website
showcases the kinds of documents the project employs--National Archives
primary documents collected by the Freedmen's Bureau between 1865 and
1872. Scroll about halfway down this home page to find a link to
Families and Freedom, a project publication, that will permit you
to access sample documents for a student lesson (or lessons) exploring
kinship ties and family values among slaves.
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