Due Today: Close read of "The Trouble with Spielberg's Lincoln"
Film reactions and questions
Go over paper requirements and outline requirements- no more than ONE page for your outline :-)
- review exemplar thesis and paper
Listen to Eric Foner Lecture: Lincoln and the Rights of Black Americans
- Collect evidence for your paper
- Write ONE discussion question
Additional article shopping and thesis work time
HW: work on your paper outline and submit it to Ms. Cohen by Sunday Jan. 3 for feedback
Resources:
Lincoln's Cooper Union Address
Lincoln's Reluctant War: How Abolitionists Leaned on the President
Another Look and Lincoln and Race
Calhoun: The Positive Good of Slavery