Reconstruction

“When Johnny Comes Marching Home”: The Demobilization of the Army of Northern Virginia

I’ve gotten quite a bit done over the past few weeks, including a very rough draft of my essay on the demobilization of the Army of Northern Virginia which will [...]

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Thomas Nast’s Reconstruction

Today my AP classes started Reconstruction.  I always enjoy teaching this section of U.S. History and given that we are using a text by Eric Foner, my students get the [...]

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Guest Post

One of this blog’s readers recently emailed some thoughts about the conference that Mark Grimsley is organizing at Ohio State.  Given that I am in the middle of a blog [...]

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Some Thoughts About Teaching Reconstruction or Why Is History So Damn Depressing?

It happens every year in at least one of my classes and usually around the time of Reconstruction. One of my students comments or asks a question that reveals a [...]

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Teaching Reconstruction

This week I will be teaching Reconstruction. I am putting primary documents together, slides, and segments of movies, including Birth of a Nation and Gone With The Wind. We will [...]

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