Enrichment Materials: Civil War/ Reconstruction
These enrichment materials build upon concepts introduced in US History and Advanced US History courses. They incorporate and link perspectives from a myriad of voices throughout this period.
First-person narratives of Southerners during the Civil War era, especially those whose voices were not well represented at the time - women, enlisted men, laborers, African Americans, and Native Americans
First-person narratives of Southerners during the Civil War era, especially those whose voices were not well represented at the time - women, enlisted men, laborers, African Americans, and Native Americans
Materials detailing the role of women in the war
Slave narratives and photographs
Document explaining the relationship between slaves and the American judicial system
Life in the Confederate States
The papers of Confederate president Jefferson Davis
A Confederate man, Evan Jones Walker, describing “Yankee Horrors”
Photo of wounded Native American sharpshooters in the Civil War
Transcribed documents from the debates surrounding Virginia's secession
RECONSTRUCTION
Marxism in the Reconstruction era
Black Republican leader requesting protection during era of Reconstruction
Black Officeholders in the South during Reconstruction
Leroy Dean discussing vigilantes in Texas post-war
The papers of Frederick Douglass
Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan
"This is a White Man's Government," political cartoon by Thomas Nast
Codes against African-Americans in the South after the abolition of slavery
The Louisiana White League Platform
"Should Andrew Johnson be Impeached?"
The papers of Ulysses S. Grant