H367 Class Schedule Week 13

Class Schedule

Tuesday, April 23

Topics of Discussion:

The Confederate Debate over Arming Black Slaves (Student-led Discussion)

Reconstruction: The Work To Be Done

Readings:

Letter from Major General Patrick Cleburne to Lieutenant General Joseph Johnston (January 2, 1864)

Letter from Robert E. Lee to Andrew Hunter (January 11, 1865)

Letter from J. H. Stingfellow to Jefferson Davis (February 8, 1865)

Black Codes of Mississippi (1865)

Ordeal by Fire, pp. 533-553

Thursday, April 25

Topics of Discussion:

Radical Reconstruction

Andrew Johnson vs. Congress

Readings:

Thaddeus Stevens' Speech in Lancaster, PA (September 6, 1865)

Thaddeus Stevens' Speech in the House of Representatives (December 18, 1865)

Reconstruction Amendments: Amendments XIII (1865), XIV (1868), and XV (1870)

First Reconstruction Act (1867)

Andrew Johnson's State of the Union Message (December 3, 1867)

Ordeal by Fire, pp. 555-581

Movie: Gone with the Wind, 6PM, Wyatt 109

Food for Thought for Week 13

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