Spring+2010+-+Civil+War

**CREC Teaching American History -** Civil War - Spring 2011 Schedule

 * Agendas, assignments & handouts ** (current enrollment - 28)


 * **Led by:**
 * Walter Woodward, UConn History Department - walter.woodward@uconn.edu
 * Alan Marcus, UConn's Neag School of Education - alan.marcus@uconn.edu---
 * Reading:**
 * "Civil War Wives", Carol Berkin
 * "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Harriet Beecher Stowe
 * **"**The Slave Ship: A Human History", Marcus Rediker
 * "Soul by Soul", Walter Johnson


 * Schedule:**
 * March 3 - Hariett Beecher Stowe House
 * March 10 - CREC
 * March 26 (Saturday) - CREC
 * March 31 - CREC
 * April 9th (Saturday) - CREC
 * April 15th (Friday) - [|CCSU Conference on Civil War]
 * - Connecticut & the Civil War: A Sesquicentennial Commeration


 * Essential Questions**
 * How do people and entire societies justify evil acts?
 * How do oppressed people resist oppression?
 * How do societies come to end evil practices?
 * What is the legacy of slavery in America?


 * Historical Focus Questions**
 * How did the Middle Passage reconfigure the lives of the enslaved?
 * How did slavery shape American society for both the enslaved and the free?
 * How did the Abolition movement rise to prominence in the antebellum Connecticut?
 * How did the Middle Passage reconfigure the lives of the enslaved?
 * Was slavery the cause of the Civil War? || [[image:uncle_toms_cabin.jpg width="250" height="318"]] ||