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Civil War Journals

An American Studies collaboration to send students back in time, to investigate American history and to personalize it.

TASK: Each student has been assigned a Civil War character and asked to imagine that person's daily life. First, the students will research that character's life and write a brief biographical summary. Second, the students will focus on a particular decade of the character's life, looking closely at three to five events in this time frame. They will be expected to keep concise bibliographic and historic notes on their readings. Third, the students will immerse themselves in particular places and events, actually taking on the persona of their character by writing a diary and recording the highlights of the Civil War years. The primary focus will be on this character's involvement in the Civil War. You will consult maps, music, letters, battle summaries, and other primary and secondary resources to bring this character to life. Finally, you will put your journals into a multimedia/PowerPoint Presentation.

Time Frame: Expect five weeks to complete this task. The final due date for all documents, bibliography, diary, and works cited is December 6, 2005.

Major Due Dates:
1st draft November 28, 2006: Biographic Summary of chosen character.
(a minimum of four sources, which will be checked for accuracy)
Final December 6, 2006: Final Biographic Summary, Diary, and Works Cited.

Selected Oral
and Visual Reports: January 6, 2007.

* Expect daily checks on notes and citation, information and "Notes."
* Drafts will be assigned as the research continues.

GETTING STARTED:

The first week, November 9-15, is devoted to research. Two follow up days in the to focus on getting that last resource or looking for some event in particular.
In between, we will devote about ten minutes of class time every other day to discuss questions concerning the project and updating student research. Otherwise, after the first week we will return to a chronological discussion of American literature.

Day One: Get to know your character and the culture surrounding that individual. Do not take notes too soon. Browse through the books, websites, and settle on a perspective. However, do take reference notes (MLA citations) as you read so that you will know how to come back to this information.

Civil War Timelines:

The Civil War Timeline: American Memory Page

The Civil War Timeline: The Smithsonian

Primary Sources on the Web

Primary Sources on the Web Library Research: Finding Primary Sources Repositories of Primary Sources EyeWitness to History Eye Witness to History: Index First Person Accounts in History Critically Analyzing Information Civil War Primary Sources Civil War Women: Online Archival Collections Civil War Primary Documents, Personal Diaries, Journals, Letters, Cartoons, Art, Images, Poetry, Literature, and Music Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Web Primary Sources: Civil War Effects on Family, Friends, etc... Civil War and Reconstruction: Primary Sources and Timelines EyeWittness to History: Civil War

General Resources
American Memory American Dreams Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events Documenting the American South: Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Including first person narratives and slave narratives. Crisis at Fort Sumter The American Civil War Home Page: an excellent source of biographies and more. Links to Civil War Sites on the Web The Civil War The Valley of the Shadow: Searchable Civil War Letters: Browsable List Virginia Military Institute Military Archives: An ONline Research Center Featuring Full-Text Civil War Collections, Images & more The World Factbook Homepage A Hypertext of American History I Hear America Singing Historical Calendar Links Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia: good collection of diaries, journals and other primary source documents. There are some interesting descriptions of the contents but no real excerpts. Biographic Information: Famous People: Civil War Web Sites A Hypertext of American History	Civil War Library of Congress The Civil War Homepage: A very cool site with battle reports and official documents and letters and diaries. Civil War Sites on the Internet The Civil War Collection at the Smithsonian The Civil War on PBS: Resources for the film by Ken Burns Civil War Women: On-line Archival Collections, Duke University African American Women: On-line Archival Collections, Duke University Early American Literature 1600-1900, Resources for K-12 The Making of America: a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction: Virginia Runaways: This site documents advertisements in Virginia newspapers for runaway slaves. Labor History in the United States: Historical Text Archives: Historical Census Browser of the United States: Women in American History: World Historical Documents: History of the Americas Index: History of the U.S. Working Class: Tales of the Early Republic: The American Civil War Homepage: Great source of information, including diaries and journals oof specific accounts. Mississippi River Links Civil War Manuscripts America to 1860: University of Delaware Library American National Biography Early American Literature: The Academy of American Poetry: A great source for poetry selections and information. The Civil War WebQuest I-Search the Civil War: a middle school site with lots of cool links
The Civil War
The Civil War Journal of James B. Lockney The American Civil War Homepage Another Civil War Homepage Civil War Women-On-line Archival Collections The Valley of the Shadow-Two Communities in the Civil War The United States Civil War Center The Iowa Civil War Site-Iowa During the Civil War (Letters, oral histories, etc) American Civil War to the Present: Women and the Civil War Civil War Diaries: Iowa James S. Schoff: Civil War Collections: ... Civil War Journals (diaries and journals from soldiers), Regimental Histories (several hundred printed regimental histories, plus Bruce Catton's personal copy.	Diaries, Journals and Letters: Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia: good collection of diaries, journals and other primary source documents. There are some interesting descriptions of the contents but no real excerpts. The American Local History Network: Diaries, Journals, and Memoirs Online First Person Narratives of the American South: from the American Memory Page a list of authors and texts: Eyewitness to History: Eye Witness to the Civil War Diaries, Memoirs, Letters and Reports Along the Trails West California As I Saw It: Excerpts of Slave Narratives:

Keeping a Journal

• Diaries of George Washington
• Letters and Journals of Narcissa Whitman (1836 - 1847) -- crossing the continent and mission life at Waiilatpu
• Internet Guide to Early Journals: 18 & 19th Centuries

DIARIES WORTH CONSIDERING
Civil War Letters Ramsey Stevens Hanger Williamson	http://www.civilwarletters.com/home.html http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/aramsey/civil/civil.html http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~lstevens/burt/ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/personal/hanger.html http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/williamson/

IMAGES AND GRAPHICS
Images of Political History Civil War	http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/index.htm http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html#graphic http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/links/links3.htm http://www.treasurenet.com/images/ http://www.wildwestweb.net/cwphotos.html http://www.nps.gov/anti/gallery.htm

Poetry

• Poems of Acclaim 70 famous poems
• The Academy of American Poetry: Poetry Selections
• The Poetry Archive
• The American Verse Project
• Music of the Civil War

Photography

• Civil War Photographs Homepage
• Photographs of the Civil War
• More Photographs of the Civil War
• Matthew Brady and the Civil War
• Matthew Brady Portraits
• Selected Civil War Photographs
• Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
• Scanned Images of American Documents: Including the Constititution, etc.
  
  
  

Paintings

• Paintings: The Battle of Franklin
• American Civil War Project
• "Picnic on the Hudson" by Thomas Rossiter, Hudson River School artist. This work depicts some famous residents of Cold Spring, including the Butterfields, picnicing on the banks of the Hudson.
• The Mid Missouri Roundtable: Sinking of the Ironclad
• Battle of Nashville: Paintings, photos, descriptions of sights
• Our Battery at the Front: Steel engraving, published in 1888 by Worthington & Co.
  Engraved by J. J. Cade after the orginal painting by W. L. Sheppard.
• Death of Sergeant Dyer
• Antique Prints and Maps
• Antique Prints: Civil War Gallery
  
  

General Resources

• 150 Years of American Painting
• Portrait Artists
• Early American Painting
• National Gallery of American Painting
• American Portraits of the late 1700s and early 1800s
• Images of American Political History
• Hudson River School
• Hudson River School: good thematic listing
  

Individual Artists

• Gilbert Stuart Online
• Charles Wilson Peale
• Thomas Sully
• George Catlin
• Thomas Cole
• Asher Durand
• Frederic Remington
• Frederic Remington's Nocturne's
  

Manuscripts

Scanned Images of American Documents: Including the Constititution, etc. Manuscripts from the American Civil War

Selected Authors
Transcendentalists & Romantics Emerson Thoreau, Henry David - Thoreau Reader Thoreau, Henry David - Thoreau Links Thoreau, Henry David - Guide to Resources	Artists/ Movements and Ideas: Utopias Melville and Hawthorne Hermman Melville Walt Whitman Notebooks The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive

More Twain

Slavery

• Origins of Slavery: Virginia Slave Laws
• Narrative of a Slave's Capture
• Rebellion: Boston Uprising 1689
• Mary Jemison's Captivity Narrative
• Excerpts of Slave Narratives:
  
  
  
  

The Western Frontier

• Diaries, Memoirs, Letters and Reports Along the Trails West
• California As I Saw It:
• New Perspectives on THE WEST(This companion site to Ken Burns' program about the American West features an interactive timeline, maps, and an archive of primary source materials)
• The Oregon Trail
• The Alamo
• The Western Expansion WebQuest
• The Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
• True West

The Complete List of Civil War Personalities

The Personalities: Robert Anderson James J. Archer Lewis Addison Armistead Nathaniel Prentiss Banks Clara Barton Ambrose Bierce Albert Bierstadt George Caleb Bingham Belle Boyd Matthew Brady Braxton Bragg John Brown Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard John Wilkes Booth Simon Bolivar Buckner Don Carlos Buell John Buford Napoleon Bonaparte Buford Ambrose E. Burnside Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Patrick Ronayne Cleburne John Lincoln "Johnny" Clem Samuel Clemens Mary Chesnut Philip St. George Cooke George Amstrong Custer Thomas Ward Custer Jefferson Davis Varnia Jefferson Davis Varina Howell Davis Dorothea Dix Frederick Douglass Jubal Anderson Early

Sarah Emma Edmonds Ralph Waldo Emerson Richard Stoddert Ewell Nathan Bedford Forrest Stephen Foster John Charles Fremont John Brown Gordon Ulysses Simpson Grant John White Geary Horace Greeley Rose O'Neal Greenhow Henry Wager Halleck Winfield Scott Hancock William Joseph Hardee Bret Harte Henry Heth Ambrose Powell Hill Oliver Wendell Holmes Winslow Homer John Bell Hood Joseph Hooker Jedediah Hotchkiss Sam Houston Thomas Jonathan Jackson Jesse James Albert Sidney Johnston Joseph Eggleston Johnston Phillip Kearny Robert Edward Lee Abraham Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln James Longstreet Thaddeus Sobieski Lowe George B. McClellan Irvin McDowell Lafayette McLaws George Gordon Meade

Thomas Francis Meagher John Hunt Morgan John Singleton Mosby John Pelham John Clifford Pemberton James Johnston Pettigrew George Edward Pickett John Pope John Fulton Reynolds William Starke Rosecrans John Sedgwick Mary Jane Safford Winfield Scott Robert Gould Shaw Philip Henry Sheridan William Tecumseh Sherman Daniel Edgar Sickles John Slidell Edmund Kirby Smith Alexander Hamilton Stephens Thaddeus Stevens Harriet Beecher Stowe James Ewell Brown Stuart George Henry Thomas Henry D. Thoreau Sally Louisa Tompkins Robert Augustus Toombs Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Walt Whitman Booker T. Washington Clement Larid Vallandigham Earl Van Dorn Elizabeth Van Lew Lewis Wallace Timothy Webster Joseph Wheeler Felix Kirk Zollicoffer Example Journal

PowerPoint Support
Kathy Schrock's Guide to PowerPoint PowerPont Manual http Instructions for Using PowerPoint Powerpoint Tutorial [Basics on using Microsoft PowerPoint provided by the University of California at Irvine] 1997 version Powerpoint Tutorial [Another tutorial on the basics of using PowerPoint provided by the good folks here at Computing Services, Rutgers University - Camden] For Windows 95 PC	PowerPoint Downloads: Harcourt College PowerPoint Downloads from Auburn PowerPoint Resources PowerPoint Homepage PowerPoint In the Classroom How to Upload PowerPoint
Multimedia Scoring Guides The WEB Project Multimedia Rubric and Examples Multimedia Mania Scoring Rubric for Students and Judges East Central ISD Multimedia Scoring Rubric Region 20 Multimedia Scoring Rubric Multiplemedia Helpful Hints