This iCue Mini-Documentary notes that, though historians now see Reconstruction as a successful step towards equality for blacks, Reconstruction was largely considered a failure in the years immediately following.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant, which was plagued by scandal and financial panic.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, to assure citizenship to blacks after the Civil War, Congress proposed the 14th Amendment. However, most Southern states refused to ratify it.
Josh Brown of the American Social History Project examines a cartoon by Thomas Nast that lampoons the Democratic Party right after the Civil War.
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Professor Eric Foner of Columbia University discusses the Black Codes, which were written by white southerners to force blacks to keep working on plantations.
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This year sees the publication of a wealth of important new literature on America in the 19th century. This abundance of excellent new contributions to the scholarship on these important years is an exciting opportunity to revisit what we all think we know about America in the 19th century, and to rethink what our students need to know. This event will focus on teaching topics with the Civil War as the chronological fulcrum.
Topics include The Technological Revolution, Teaching about Abraham Lincoln, Women in the Civil War, Teaching Military History, and Postwar Reconstruction.
Applications are welcome from social studies and history teachers, curriculum supervisors and junior college faculty. Free room and board and selected stipends are offered.
"An NCHE team will explore the topic of the 19th Century at this Teaching American History colloquium."
"An NCHE team of Sean Adams, Susan Dangel and Bruce Lesh will explore the topic of the Civil War and Reconstruction at this The Constitution in Historical Context: Teaching Exemplars of American Constitutional History -- Project Teach II colloquium."
"An NCHE team of Elliott West, Ted Green and Susan Dangel will explore the topic of the 19th Century Through WWI: Civil War and Reconstruction, the Urban/Industrial Revolution, America's Rise to World Power at this East Meets West: Traditional American History for New Mexico Teachers colloquium."
"This course will examine military aspects of the war, as well as political developments during it, including the political history of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural. The course also examines the post-war Amendments and the Reconstruction era."