Shareable Google doc click here. Read Chapter 16 of OpenStax and bring any questions you have to class.

Student leaders are listed in bold italics at the top of each group. Group "names" are optional and do not necessarily reflect the viewpoints of the named characters! Click here for a copy of the planning document (optional). Here's a short video on the extraordinary era of Reconstruction featuring Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Eric Foner.

This radio piece is from a very recent interview with Steve Luxenberg, author of the recently released Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation. It may guide your understanding of 19th C. racial politics and Supreme Court decisions.

1. David Brooks
2. Ta-Nehisi Coates
3. Charles Ogletree

How will you approach the "new field" of the Reconstruction era?

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And for those of you who can't get enough military history, here is a low-rez version of "The Civil War in 4.5 Minutes":

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After analyzing the dialogue in the following scene (p. 2 below), we will embark upon the task of Reconstruction: putting the North and South back together after the Civil War. How does the quote from Pvt. Trip relate to General William Tecumseh Sherman's Special Field Order No.15?

Any/all of the following may be utilized (as long as they are cited) when you write your Douglass paper.

(examine primary source images here)

David Blight's FAN interview on January 25, 2019 and my notes (below):

Here is a link to a positive review of David Blight's biography of Frederick Douglass.

And Blight's commentary over a reading of the Narrative:

Finally, you may also use the PBS documentary, "The African Americans: The Age of Slavery" which can be found here.