AMST 430
MICHAEL R. H. SWANSON Ph. D
The South
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ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
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Spring, 2001
 Week of February 26, 2001


For Tuesday, February 27
The Civil War and its Aftermath
READ: In The South, A History
Chapter 15: The Confederate Experience pp. 338-364
Chapter 16: After the War pp. 365-383

In Major Problems in the South, from Chapter 2

#1, Constitutional Amendments 13, 14, 15
#2 The Military Reconstruction Act
#3 J. R. Johnson Preaches on Marriage Covenants and Legal Rights
#4 Edward Coleman Seeks Child Custody pp. 29-34

ESSAY "The Marriage Covenant is at the Foundation..." 40-44

INTERNET ASSIGNMENT:
Race and Place: African Americans and the Freedmen's Bureau in Augusta County, Virginia is a wonderful site created by students at the University of Virginia. Visit it at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/HIUS403/freedmen/bureau.html, and click on the picture by "Family Services". Download and read the "Family Services" section, which will give you a further insight into the essay on the marriage covenant, and also an alternate view of the Freedman's Bureau to compare with that in Birth of a Nation.
TUESDAY NIGHT: OUR SECOND FILM

GONE WITH THE WIND...

7:00 South Hall 129, on the Penny Arcade Series

Essay on GWTW will be due on Tuesday, March 6.
Instructions:
Length: 1-2 pp. Typed.

Analyze the stereotypes in Gone With the Wind. Which of the male characters most represents the Southern Cavalier Ideal? In what ways? Does he have any "flaws" which deviate from that ideal? Which of the female characters most represents the Cavalier Ideal, does she have any flaws which deviate from that ideal? In what ways?

For Thursday, March 1
Reactions and Responses:
Read: in The South: A History
Chapter 16: After the War, pp. 383-400
In Major Problems in the South, from Chapter 2
#5. A Southern Newspaper Denounces Reconstruction 1869
#6. Congressional Testimony on the Ku Klux Klan, 1871
#7. Instructions to Red Shirts in South Carolina, 1876
#8, Thomas Nast Views Reconstruction, pp. 34-39

Essays,

"Carpetbaggers in Reality"
"Black Activism and the Ku Klux Klan pp. 40-56
INTERNET ASSIGNMENT:
Download and read "A Hundred Years of Terror" a brief history of the Ku Klux Klan found at http://www.unf.edu/dept/equalop/oeop11.htm

This day's readings focus at the southern reaction to the attempts by the North to "reconsctruct" southern culture in the Civil War's aftermath.  The readings should clarify a number of the observations made by D. W. Griffith's film.  Recognize, perhaps, that Griffith's observations have some historical accuracy to them.  His approval of them is what shocks us most today.

LOOKING AHEAD:
 

I WILL DISTRIBUTE YOUR MID-TERM EXAMINATION ONE WEEK FROM TODAY.



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