{"id":997,"date":"2012-09-05T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T19:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-gilder\/?page_id=997"},"modified":"2020-02-18T01:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:25:07","slug":"part-4-homefront","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/course-syllabus-2\/part-4-homefront\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 4: Homefront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/McaWNPYOH8A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The objective in Part 4 is to engage some of the deepest struggles of the civilian population during the Civil War. \u00a0 Combatants fought because their families at home supported them.\u00a0 Without a strong homefront, there could have been no successful battle fronts.\u00a0 Yet each side struggled mightily with challenges to civilian morale.\u00a0 This section focuses on how teachers might use the stories of southern women and Lincoln&#8217;s mastery of northern political conflicts to help explain the ultimate outcome of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Featured Image: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopediavirginia.org\/media_player?mets_filename=evm00002105mets.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richmond Bread Riot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featured Document: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/blind-memorandum-august-23-1864\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blind Memorandum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Handouts: <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/09\/Handout-37th-Congress.doc\">37th Congress<\/a>\u00a0\/\/\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/09\/Handout-Blind-Memorandum.doc\">Blind Memorandum<\/a>\u00a0 \/\/ \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/09\/Handout-Macaria.doc\">Macaria<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further Reading: \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilderlehrman.org\/history-by-era\/american-civil-war\/essays\/women-and-home-front-new-civil-war-scholarship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catherine Clinton on Women and Homefront<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guest GLI Lecture: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilderlehrman.org\/multimedia#12359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ronald White on Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Words<\/a>\u00a0(37 mins.)<\/p>\n<p>Featured Student Video: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NqaUk4R38uk&amp;list=TLHTys17ICQsU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Texas Farmer&#8217;s Civil War<\/a>\u00a0(9 mins.)<\/p>\n<p>Civil War Through American Art:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1331\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/education\/resources\/documents\/civilwar_teachersguide_final.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1331\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1331\" alt=\"Winslow Homer, &quot;Veteran in a New Field,&quot; (1865)\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/09\/Homer-Veteran-in-New-Field-1865.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/09\/Homer-Veteran-in-New-Field-1865.jpg 960w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/09\/Homer-Veteran-in-New-Field-1865-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winslow Homer, &#8220;Veteran in a New Field,&#8221; (1865)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The objective in Part 4 is to engage some of the deepest struggles of the civilian population during the Civil War. \u00a0 Combatants fought because their families at home supported them.\u00a0 Without a strong homefront, there could have been no successful battle fronts.\u00a0 Yet each side struggled mightily with challenges to civilian morale.\u00a0 This section [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"parent":931,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-997","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997\/revisions\/1481"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}