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Part II |
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| This is an optional activity, but
makes sense since it gives individual students the opportunity to
analyze an illustration or cartoon. Immediately after the due date for
the paper assigned in Part I, assign a second paper. I have included a
draft of the assignment below. |
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| This is a fun assignment. Each of
you is to select an illustration or a cartoon from Harper’s Weekly
for the years 1861 – 1865. Write a paper of about three typed pages
discussing how that illustration or cartoon explains life in the
United States during the Civil War. Don’t limit yourself to battles.
Almost anything is fair game. Just stay away from the subjects
broached in your first paper. To succeed in this assignment you will
have to read well beyond your textbook. As in all your papers,
footnote and provide a bibliography. |
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| You already know what to do from
your group on the illustrations addressing the Northern victory in the
Civil War. But here are some suggestions. See if you can identify the
characters or places in your illustration. Are there references to
previous historical events? What was the occasion that led to the
illustration? What is the bias of the illustrator or cartoonist? This
is a chance to show me how good your eye and your historical instincts
are. If you would like additional suggestions for evaluating your
document go to the homepage of the National Archives and Record
Administration at www.nara.gov/education/teaching/analysis/write.html |
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| The paper will be due on
_____________. You must include a clean copy of the illustration or
cartoon which is the subject of your paper. |
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