Monthly Archives: October 2011

Brown Book Comments

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Caleb McDaniel

Monday’s reading is from one of our required books for the semester, Thomas J. Brown’s The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration. The assigned pages (pp. 1-55, 79-108) cover a wide range of documents and themes related to how people … Continue reading →

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Changed dates

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Caleb McDaniel

I was not selected for a jury (sorry, Elizabeth), so we will meet as usual tomorrow. Please note two important changes to our schedule for the next couple of weeks. Position Paper #4 will now be due on Friday, October … Continue reading →

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Google Spreadsheet

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Caleb McDaniel

If you need the link to the Google spreadsheet that we edited together in class last Wednesday, it’s right here.

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Position Paper #3

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Caleb McDaniel

In order to give us another day of class to talk about the results of emancipation, I have decided to change the deadline for the third position paper to Friday, October 14. Below is the prompt for the third position … Continue reading →

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Some Disunion links

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Caleb McDaniel

On this blog I have previously mentioned an ongoing blog at the New York Times called Disunion, which features Civil War experts writing daily posts about the war. There have been several posts on the blog that connect especially well … Continue reading →

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