Sumários

North and South (debate); Andrew Johnson's Presidency.

4 Dezembro 2018, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

North and South (debate); 

The Homestead Act and the Abolition Amendments: 13 to 15.
Andrew Johnson's Presidency.

Class on Abraham Lincoln by invited lecturer Teresa Cid

29 Novembro 2018, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Abraham Lincoln, "A House Divided" (1858). 

Abraham Lincoln and the Civl War.
Check the following webliographic recommendations: 
http://historyus19.blogspot.com/2018/12/professor-teresa-cids-recommendations.html

The heightening of the tension on the issue of slavery; Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe; the election of 1860.

27 Novembro 2018, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

California enters the Union (1849).

The Compromise of 1850.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) - reading of excerpts and afterword.
Thomas Edison's Movie. (1903)
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 and the Election of 1860.
Homework questions.

Women Rights: Margaret Fuller and Sojourner Truth.

22 Novembro 2018, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Margaret Fuller among the Transcendentalists.
http://historyus19.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-dispatch-to-save-literary-remains-of.html
Presentation on "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" (1843-45).
Discussion of equality of rights, men and women, and of the principles that govern (Wo)Man.
Presentation on Sojourner Truth. Types of civil disobedience and John Brown (cont. from last lesson) http://historyus19.blogspot.com/2018/11/hw-november-27.html

Debate on Civil Disobedience. H. D. Thoreau

20 Novembro 2018, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Debate on Civil Disobedience.Guidelines for final papers and final decisions on them. http://historyus19.blogspot.com/2018/11/final-paper-requirements-and-deadlines.html
Discussion of the text "Civil Disobedience" / "Resistance to Civil Government" by H. D. Thoreau.

http://historyus19.blogspot.com/2018/11/hw-for-november-19-thoreau-civil.html