Teaching the Civil War
Our goal is to provide a user friendly resource library for teaching the Civil War. With over 100 different pages to explore, your window into the 1860s just got a little bigger.
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Our goal is to provide a user friendly resource library for teaching the Civil War. With over 100 different pages to explore, your window into the 1860s just got a little bigger.
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The same god. The same language. A divided country. It was the bloodiest war in American History and helped redefine what it means to be American. With the current controversy surrounding the Confederate flag the Civil War remains at the heart of the American identity 150 years after its conclusion. Learn about the 5 C’s of the Civil War Era: Causes, Concepts, Characters, Conflict and Consequences. We will view the Civil War as a struggle not only between opposing armies but as a struggle between opposing ideologies and opposing interpretations of the American government.
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Students will examine the battlefields and historic places preserved as national parks. We will learn how life was different during the Civil War and analyze military strategy, technology, medicine, and photography of the era. In the past have created dioramas, video documentaries, visited reenactments, and brought artillery demonstrations to campus to help us learn about our topics. The class emphasizes hands-on learning and small group discussion. Students participating in this course may be eligible to participate in a learning experience trip to Gettysburg National Military Park.
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