Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Civil War reading assignments and Lincoln docs

You can find the documents that reveal Lincoln's changing public stance on slavery here.  You should be familiar with all of them except the fourth debate between Lincoln and Douglas, "Appeal of the Colored Men of Philadelphia to the President of the United States," and the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

A block:
371-375 due Thursday 5/22
375-383 (skip the "where historians disagree" blue pages; stop at "politics of emancipation") due Friday 5/23
383-392 due Tuesday 5/27
392-398 due Wednesday 5/28
398-404 due Thursday 5/29

C block:
please read through p. 383 (stop at "the mobilization of the South") for Friday 5/23
383-388 due Tuesday 5/27
388-398 due Wednesday 5/28
398-404 due Friday 5/30

E block:
371-380 (skip the "where historians disagree" blue pages; stop at "politics of emancipation") due Thurs 5/22
380-388 due Friday 5/23
388-398 due Wednesday 5/28
398-404 due Thursday 5/29


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