Food for Thought Reading Assignments
Week 1 (January 22-26)
Tuesday,
January 22
James M. McPherson,
"If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862"
The
Declaration of Independence (1776)
The
Constitution of the United States of America (1787)
The
Bill of Rights (1791)
Thursday,
January 24
William Freehling,
"The Founding Fathers and Slavery"
Thomas
Jefferson's "Firebell in the Night" Letter (1820)
Edward Pressen, "How
Different from Each Other Were the Antebellum North and South?"
James M. McPherson,
"Southern Exceptionalism: A New Look at an Old Question"
Ordeal by Fire,
pp. 5-26
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