Assignment Question
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This week we’ll mainly be exploring various perspectives about what it meant to be free for African Americans after the Civil War. We’ll also be figuring out how to read primary sources/documents and how to use the textbook effectively.
Respond to at least two classmates in the Introductions Forum. (Optional, but encouraged!) Read the syllabus.
Post questions about the syllabus on the Syllabus Question and Answer Forum. Read the Oral History Assignment Materials. Post questions about the Oral History Assignment on the Oral History Assignment Forum. Read the First Exam Assignment Sheet. Post questions about the First Exam on the First Exam Question and Answer Forum. Thursday, September 7 Attend class with questions about the course, the syllabus, the first midterm exam, and the oral history assignment. Read How to Engage the Textbook.
Read and be prepared to discuss Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Chapter 15, “‘What is Freedom?’: Reconstruction,” pp. 565-603. Also read and be prepared to discuss Foner, Give Me Liberty!, pp. 661-72. (This section is not posted on Moodle.) Be sure to pay attention to the documents on pp. 576-77, 589, 670-71
Submit Journal Entry #1.
The topic to address: What can we learn from the readings assigned for today about what it meant to be free for African Americans after the Civil War? Attend class with questions and comments about Chapter 15 in Give Me Liberty! (including the documents on pp. 576-77, and 589 and Give Me Liberty!, pp. 670-71).
Read Documents for Week 1 Post questions or comments about at least three of those documents before class today on the What It Meant to be Free Forum. Remember that your First Exam is posted so you can explore ideas directly related to that assignment. If African Americans attended the What It Meant to Be Free conference, based on these documents, what issues would they raise? Did African Americans encounter competing views and actions on what their freedom should mean? Be prepared to discuss the documents in class.
Section I: What It Meant to be Free in the Late Nineteenth Century Week 2: This week, we’ll be exploring themes of economic freedom, including entrepreneurial freedom, and the relative freedom of industrial workers. We’ll also look at how various people interpreted the vast economic changes in the late nineteenth century and the changes in social relationships that they brought. Those perspectives tell us much about conflicting visions of what it meant to be free in the late nineteenth century.
Watch the documentary film Out of the Depths: The Miner’s Story (1984, 57 min.) in class. We’ll discuss the film in class, and also be prepared to discuss pp. 605-27 in Chapter 16 of Give Me Liberty!, plus pp. 651-53 (on the Homestead Strike), and pp. 658-59 (on the Rise of the AFL) in Chapter 17 of Give Me Liberty. Post questions, comments, and insights about this week’s material on the What It Meant to be Free Forum, Week 2.
Post questions about the First Exam on the First Exam Question and Answer Forum. Read and be prepared to discuss the Documents for Week 2 posted on Moodle for this week. Post questions or comments about the assigned documents on the What It Meant to be Free Forum, Week 2.
Submit Journal Entry #2.
On assigned sections in Give Me Liberty! and the film, but especially about the documents posted on Moodle for this week. Bring questions that you raised in your journals to our class discussion. What do the documents have to tell us about what it meant to be free? What confused you about any of the documents?
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