Questions to respond to: Was Reconstruction a revolution? Is change different than progress? How?
200-300 word written post and you must reference at least one source from each day and at least 2 pieces of information from lecture to receive full marks.
As a reminder, the weekly readings/lectures were:
Week 14: Reconstruction
April 18: 1865
Listen or read: Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, 1865.
Read: the Thirteenth Amendment
Read: Herman Melville, The Martyr
View: John Frederick Peto, Reminisces of 1865
April 20: How Free is Free?
Read: the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
Read: W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, “Of the Dawn of Freedom,†1903.
