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By Matthew Pinsker GO TO “LINCOLN” MOVIE TEACHER’S GUIDE Introduction A film like Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (2012) is considered a work of fiction even … Continue reading
Few Hollywood films have ever been as well suited for discussion within American history classrooms as Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (2012). The movie tackles some of the biggest issues in the study of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln’s legacy but … Continue reading
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GO TO “LINCOLN” MOVIE TEACHER’S GUIDE Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (2012) is a two-and-a-half hour film that zeroes in on a defining moment from near the end of the Civil War –January 1865 and the debate over the proposed amendment to … Continue reading
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James Oakes’s Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (Norton, 2012) profoundly challenges the way most American history textbooks and classrooms have been presenting the story of Civil War emancipation. The nearly 500-page book contains a host of … Continue reading
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There is a good bibliography of primary and secondary sources related to emancipation in the District of Columbia posted by the H-DC Discussion Network. Matthew Gilmore posted the resource in 2007, which means that it does not include Kate Masur’s … Continue reading
