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HIS 131

American History I

Civil War Virtual Museum Assignment

For this assignment, the class will create a "virtual" Civil War museum.

Each student has been assigned a person/place/event to research.  (Your instructor will provide you with your individual assignment.)  You are to research your assigned topic, and then post your report as a reply to this thread, answering the following questions:

  • Dates (birth, death, date of a relevant event, etc.)
  • Biography:  If a person, what he/she did during (and after) the war;  also, what impact this person/event had on American history.  A couple of paragraphs here--I have selected some interesting persons/topics; tell the story!
  • Memorials (anything named in memory of the person, and why); you can also discuss any recent news or controversies related to your topic
  • Interesting or unusual thing you learned about this person or event (or related)
  • Picture or some illustration
  • At least two sources, properly cited
  • Remember to respond substantively to at least one classmate.

Books

The Siege of Washington
Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader
Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War
Lincoln and the Decision for War
The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine
Civil War Doctor: The Story of Mary Walker
A House Divided During the Civil War Era
Robert E. Lee
Petticoat Spies: Six women spies of the Civil War
The Civil War and Reconstruction
The Outbreak of the Civil War

eBooks

Intelligence in the American Civil War
John Dooley's Civil War
Spain and the American Civil War
The American Civil War and Reconstruction
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War
Biographies of the Civil War and Reconstruction