Use of the America Memory Collection and Harper Weekly to enhance students' understanding of political cartoons and the historical events, individuals and debates revolving around Secession.

Objectives

•  review and expand their knowledge of secession through the analysis of political cartoons.
•  use primary sources to increase their understanding of the topic of secession
•  work with a graphic organizer to take notes, compare and analyze political cartoons
• incorporate passages from Lincoln's Inaugural Address in the American Memory collection to support their analysis
• select photographs to depict secession from the Civil War Photographs collection
• become familiar with historical  music centering on secession

Time Required

Recommended Grade Level

Curriculum Fit

Resources Used

• Selected Civil War Photographs
• Harper Weekly
• Historic American Sheet Music
• Words and Deeds in American History
• Touring Turn of the Century America,
• African American Perspectives Pamphlets
• The Civil War Home Page
• The American Civil War-Dakota State
• Hess, Stephen, and Kaplan, Milton. The Ungentlemanly Art, A History of American Political Cartoons, New York: Macmillan, 1968.
• Civil War Commander, In Their Own Words. edited by T.J. Stiles. New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 1997.

Procedure

1. Write first step here.
2. Write second step here.
3. Write third step here.

Evaluation and Extension

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July 23, 1999