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Civil War and American Culture Spring 2008 Instructors: Paul Harvey and Lesley Ginsberg SYLLABUS HIST DOCS ANALYSIS PAPER TOPICS HIST DOCS PAPER GUIDELINES JACOBS, MIDTERM, AND FINALPAPER ASSIGNMENTS WRITING TIPS FOR HUM STUDENTS LECTURE NOTES/CLASSROOM DISCUSSIONS UNCLE TOM'S CABIN AND AMERICAN CULTURE (UTC Web) CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER LYDIA MARIA CHILD, "QUADROONS"	Films for Class PBS The Civil War Reconstruction: The Second Civil War Gone with the Wind (1939) Birth of a Nation (1915) *Rise and Fall of Jim Crow* Greenspan, "Tales from the Vault" (review of UTC Web)
"MRS. MARY E. WEBB (A COLOURED NATIVE OF PHILADELPHIA) READING 'UNCLE TOM'S CABIN,' IN THE HALL OF STAFFORD HOUSE"--London Illustrated News (August 1856) Uncle Tom and Little Eva (1853), by the African American artist Robert S. Duncanson. Gift of Mrs. Jefferson Butler & Miss Grace R. Conner Photograph ©1997 The Detroit Institute of Arts	OTHER RESOURCES Slavery Interactive Maps Timeline of Events Leading to Civil War Civil War Home Page: comes with timelines, interactive battle maps Civil War Image Map Civil War: Major Maps, Images, Documents (from Ken Burns "The Civil War" PBS series site) Constitutional Amendments, 13 - 15 Doctored "Black Confederate" Photos Edward P. Jones Speaks PRO-SLAVERY COUNTERATTACK