Fall+2010+-+Civil+war

**CREC Teaching American History -** Civil War - **Fall/Winter 2010 Schedule**
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 * 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:**
 * **"**The Slave Ship: A Human History", Marcus Rediker
 * "Soul by Soul", Walter Johnson
 * "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Harriet Beecher Stowe


 * Schedule:**
 * Thursday, December 2, CREC
 * Saturday, December 4, Field Trip to [|Mystic Seaport]
 * Thursday, December 16, [|CT Historical Society], Hartford
 * Thursday, January 6, [|Old State House], Hartford hur
 * Thursday, January 20, CREC Central day,
 * Saturday, January 29, Smith Middle School, Glastonbury, - Andersonville Archaeology
 * Thursday, February 3, CREC Central (film session), C


 * 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 reconffigure the lives of the enslaved?
 * Was slavery the cause of the Civil War? || [[image:manbro.gif width="291" height="328" caption="Early abolitionist movement.image."]]

Source: [|PBS Africans in America] [|Yale, Slavery & Abolition] || ||

REC Central, 4:00-7:30 pm