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    Perspectives

    (Unit 3 – Pre lesson)

    Big Question 4: Perspectives – How and with what implications do


    certain perspectives about the past carry greater weight than others?
    11/16
    • Students will be able to analyze
    changing and persisting
    perspectives about
    Reconstruction/Civil Rights.

    • How do perspectives help shape


    history?
    Perspectives
    • Three little pigs (childhood story)

    • The True Story of the Three Little Pigs


    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZtUdk2UlT8

    • Which story is more accurate?


    • Why isn’t that the most fair question?
    Confederate War Monuments
    • In recent years these monuments have sparked a
    debate of if the monuments are history / heritage /
    hate. Where do you stand on this debate?
    • What do you think should be done with these
    monuments?

    Watch the following video and analyze the perspectives


    of the people sharing their opinions. What arguments
    do the people make?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrtOi4F9pmo&t=1
    28s
    Daughters of the Confederacy
    • How did the Daughters of the Confederacy help to shape the way
    people view the civil war?
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkFXPblLpU
    Historiography
    Historical Coverage of
    Reconstruction
    • How did this change throughout the 20th century?

    • Pike - The Prostrate State (1873)


    • Dunning (1907 )
    • Foner – Intro to Reconstruction (1988)
    • James S. Pike – The Prostrate State
    • https://books.google.com/books?id=txfb4jqpkRAC&printsec=frontcov
    er&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

    • https://archive.org/details/prostratestates01pikegoog/page/n12/mod
    e/2up

    • William A. Dunning – Reconstruction: Political and Economic


    • Link on Schoology
    • Preface to Eric Foner’s Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution
    (1988)

    Read the preface to the book and answer:


    • What different historical perspectives about Reconstruction does Foner
    mention? [xix-xxiii (half way- until “In emphasizing” paragraph)]
    • How does Foner describe the aims of his book?
    In Groups
    • What different historical perspectives about Reconstruction does
    Foner mention? [xix-xxiii (half way- until “In emphasizing”
    paragraph)]

    • On a piece of paper, list the different perspectives/eras that Foner


    identified in the historiography of the Reconstruction Era then write
    the differences he pointed out about each one.
    Discussion post

    • From the earliest book to the most recent video, what has changed
    and what has stayed the same in people’s perspectives/ideas of
    Reconstruction/the Confederacy? Why do you think this is?
    Memory History

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