Week 14

This week is our last full week of classes! Can you believe it! This week, I want you to focus on your final project. I’ll be holding virtual office hours during our class time on Monday; feel free to pop in and say hi or ask questions.

Monday: Reflections on Online Learning

  • Work on your final project!
  • Check in with me during office hours (1:30-2:45) if you want. I’ll post a link to the Google Meet I’m going to use in Slack.
  • Listen to your professor and TAs reflect on our experiences with online learning this semester (no transcript for this one, I’m afraid).

Wednesday: The Civil War

  • Check in on Blackboard.
  • Listen to the podcast for today or read the transcript here. (For this one I’d recommend listening if you can.)
  • In your groups, discuss the podcast.

More resources

  • All Things Considered, “The Anthemic Allure of Dixie, An Enduring Confederate Monument”
  • Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
  • Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
  • Horwitz, Tony. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.
  • Janney, Caroline E. Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation. The Littlefield History of the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
  • Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
  • Levin, Kevin M. Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
  • Ural, Susannah. Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades: The Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived It. Osprey Publishing, 2013.
  • Ural, Susannah J. Hood’s Texas Brigade: The Soldiers and Families of the Confederacy’s Most Celebrated Unit. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017.
  • Ural, Susannah J. The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865. New York: University Press, 2006.