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The Meeting in Savannah Link to source text One of the most important efforts of the Civil War was General William T. Sherman’s March to the Sea campaign. Sherman’s army marched through Georgia from Atlanta all the way to the … Continue reading →

A Contested Standard: Morris’ Funeral Oration for Washington Gouverneur Morris signs the Constitution, painting by John Henry Hintermeister On the mournful New Year’s Day of 1800, Gouverneur Morris stood to eulogize the recently deceased George Washington. Morris, the “Penman of … Continue reading →

http://Cast Down Your Bucket.mov “There is no escape through law of man or God from the inevitable: The laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed; And close as sin and suffering joined We march to fate abreast.”[1] This line … Continue reading →

https://www.wevideo.com/embed/#2492269573 by Huy Trinh On March 4, 1865, a crowd the size of thirty-five to forty thousand people assembled in front of the East Portico of the Capitol, anxiously waiting for the beginning of Abraham Lincoln’s second term as the President … Continue reading →

Since the very beginning of the United States of America there was an incredibly divisive issue at the heart of the nation. A nation built upon the ideals of equality and freedom was also built using the institution of slavery, … Continue reading →

John T. Cuddy Letter: July 7, 1861 John T. Cuddy Letter, January 16. 1863 From “having more fun than ever”[1] as a Union soldier in 1861 to wishing “that this ware was over”[2] in 1863, John Taylor Cuddy was a … Continue reading →

All quotations from John Cuddy’s 1863 Letter are written exactly as they appear in his writings John Taylor Cuddy, like any teenage boy, was eager to prove himself as a worthy, capable young man at the outset of the Civil … Continue reading →

“Few evils are less accessible to the force of reason, or more tenacious of life and power, than a long-standing prejudice.”[1] This powerful quote opened “The Color Line,” an article written by Frederick Douglass in 1881. As a formerly enslaved … Continue reading →

Frederick Douglass, Speech, 1876 Frederick Douglass on Lincoln and Reconstruction from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo. This close reading will cover excerpts from Frederick Douglass’s speech at the dedication of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, DC in April 1876.

Moses Roper faced extreme adversity during his time as a slave. He was brutally beaten and tortured on a consistent basis and demeaned to a point that would break the average person, however not Roper. Separated from his mother at … Continue reading →