His 105 Week Seven Reading
Chapter 13: Sectional Conflict and Shattered Union 18481860, 297
Chapter 14: A Violent Choice: Civil War 1861-1865, 326
Writing
You will have a choice this week. Submit your writing
through the drop box.
Choose from the list of authors or select another, if you so
choose, from the Summary of American Literature in the
Nineteenth Century. Write a paper of at least two pages
describing his literary works and if possible, identify his
"passions and thoughts."
or,
Select at least three songs from the The Civil War
Songbook and in a paper of at least two pages indicating
if "the writers of a people’s songs, as we are told, may have
a more powerful influence than the maker of their laws."
Discussion Forums
7.1 American Literature
7.2 Bleeding Kansas
7.3 Gettysburg
As the United States grew and urbanized, literacy grew as
well. Newspapers flourished (there were over forty at the
time of the American Revolution) and magazines were
published. America began to produce writers who would rival
those in Europe and Americans were singing their own
songs. A distinctive American flavor accompanied each of
these.
"Yet literature expresses men’s thoughts and passions,
which have, after all, a considerable influence upon their
lives. The writers of a people’s songs, as we are told, may
have a more powerful influence than the maker of their
laws.” P. 1.
Leslie Stephen. English literature and society in the
eighteenth century (1903) London, Duckworth.
As the United States grew and urbanized, literacy grew as
well. Newspapers flourished (there were over forty at the
time of the American Revolution) and magazines were
published. America began to produce writers who would rival
those in Europe and Americans were singing their own
songs. A distinctive American flavor accompanied each of
these.
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
J ames Fenimore Cooper (1789-1751)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Summary of American literature through the 19th century
http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Great_Republic
_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_IV/summaryam_fg.html
The Civil War Songbook
http://www.pdmusic.org/civilwar.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jso1YRQnpCI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSSn3NddwFQ
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
When Johnny comes marching home again, Hurrah! Hurrah! We'll give him a
hearty welcome then Hurrah! Hurrah! The men will cheer and the boys will
shout The ladies they will all turn out And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes
marching home.
The old church bell will peal with joy Hurrah! Hurrah! To welcome home our
darling boy, Hurrah! Hurrah! The village lads and lassies say With roses they will
strew the way, And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.
Get ready for the Jubilee, Hurrah! Hurrah! We'll give the hero three times
three, Hurrah! Hurrah! The laurel wreath is ready now To place upon his loyal
brow And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.
Let love and friendship on that day, Hurrah, hurrah! Their choicest pleasures
then display, Hurrah, hurrah! And let each one perform some part, To fill with joy
the warrior's heart, And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home
The expansion of slavery and the Missouri Compromise
1854
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchistnewnation/4678#comment-1563
Missouri and Maine
States and Their Admission to the Union
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/states/
a/state_admission.htm
Bleeding Kansas 1853 - 1861
http://www.history.com/topics/bleedingkansas
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html
Beecher Bibles
http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/beecher-bibles/11977
Dred Scott case: the Supreme Court decision
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html
Sequence of Events
Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin The Kansas-Nebraska Act of
1856 The formation of the Republican Party The Dred Scott
decision of 1857 Lincoln and Douglas vie for the Illinois
Senate position John Brown Lincoln's election to the
presidency
Beginning in 1860 the pace of weapons development
increased enormously as the Industrial Revolution produced
one technological advance upon another. Among the most
important consequences of the factory system, mass
production, and machine manufacture was the great
reduction in time required between new ideas and the
manufacture of production prototypes. New concepts were
quickly reduced to drawings, then to models, then
prototypes, and finally to full-scale implementation within
very short periods of time. The wide-spread introduction of
technical journals quickened the time it took for innovations
in one discipline to have an impact in another related field.
The result was a rapid increase in information transfer . The
overall consequence of these circumstances was the rapid
application of new weapons and other technologies of war to
the battlefield at a pace never seen before in history with the
corresponding result that weapons became more lethal than
ever.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/gabrmetz/gabr0022.
htm
Casualty Rates for the Napoleonic Wars
http://www.napoleonicwarsforum.com/viewtopic.php
?f=44&t=120
http://www.napoleonseries.org/research/abstract/military/army/france/c_casualties.html
Five Causes of the Civil War
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/civilwarmenu/a/c
ause_civil_war.htm
Ten Bloodiest Battles of the Civil War
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/civilwarbattles/
tp/civil_war_battles.htm
Gettysburg
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/wpclasses.html
Mathew Brady’s Vision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koLnFvPaya0
Home Sweet Home: Music During the American Civil War
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/video/Music-Duringthe-American-Civil-War.html
Civil War Strategy and Tactics
It was at West Point that Americans studied the tactics of
Napoleon whose tactics were used in part all the way
through the First World War. Here is a link to those generals
on both the Union and Confederate sides were West Point
Graduates.
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/civil-war-pictures/strategy.htm