Civil War Discussion
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WeekSeven_CivilWarReconstruction.pdf
Civil War, Reconstruction, and Transformation (Reminder: signing in to the Library first allows the links below to work best for you.)
Title Citation
Civil War (Don’t forget to sign in for easy access)
American Women’s History: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 3 to p. 62 (top)
Women’s Hardship Petitions to the US Federal Government During the Civil War Read at least five petitions.
Video “She Ranks Me” excerpt from Ken Burns’ Civil War (Segment 19: 4:14 mins only)
Video Civil War Experience in Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (5:08 mins only)
Susan Ware. 2015. American Women’s History: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://search-ebscohost-com.proxylib.csueastbay.e du/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e091sww&AN=92107 4&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
Rebecca Jo Plant, Frances M. Clarke, fl. 2023 and Cayla Regas, fl. 2023 'Do not toss this letter away': Women's Hardship Petitions to the U.S. Federal Government during the Civil War(Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2023), 100 page(s), Source: documents.alexanderstreet.com
Reconstruction
Frances Harper Reconstruction Speech Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. Frances Ellen Harper On Reconstruction, The Liberator, 3 March 1864. In documents.alexanderstreet.com. Accessed October 2, 2023.
How did White Women aid formerly enslaved people during and after the Civil War?
Read at least 5 documents (aka Primary Sources) in this collection.
Carol Faulkner. How Did White Women Aid Former Slaves during and after the Civil War, 1863-1891? 1999 (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York, Binghamton, 1999), 66 page(s),Source: documents.alexanderstreet.com
Darlene Clark Hine, “An Angle of Vision: Black Women and the United States Constitution.” (I tried a new way of linking. Let me know if it doesn’t work. Sign in to the Library!)
Darlene Clark Hine,“An Angle of Vision: Black Women and the United States Constitution, 1787-1987,” OAH Magazine of History 3, no. 1 (1988): 7–13. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25162573. Or https://www-jstor-org.proxylib.csueastbay.edu /stable/pdf/25162573
After Slavery Searching for Loved Ones in Wanted Ads
Ari Shapiro, Maureen Pau, “After Slavery Searching for Loved Ones in Wanted Ads,” Code Switch, National Public Radio, February 22, 2017. Accessed October 6, 2023.
Civil War, Reconstruction, and Transformation (Reminder: signing in to the Library first allows the links below to work best for you.)
Intersectionality
The Intersectionality Wars (skim not so much for the “wars” part, but to get an understanding of intersectionality as originally intended/applied by scholars/attorneys.) Kimberly Crenshaw’s foundational article is also linked in the article. Intersectionality is an important analytic term that is more effective and descriptive than ‘double oppression,’ an earlier way of understanding how race and gender impacted Black women. Once you have the concept, it’s important to think about its historical applications for the purposes of this class.
Jane Coaston, “The Intersectionality Wars,” Vox, May 28th, 2019, https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/ 18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law- race-gender-discrimination . Accessed October 2, 2023.
