Itinerary Overview  11/22  -   Life in the Antebellum South  11/25  -   Thanksgiving- No Update  11/29  -   Life in the Antebellum North  12/02  -   Paths of Resistance and Rebellion  12/06  -   The Abolitionists and the Underground Railroad  12/09  -   Flashpoints on the Road to the War  12/13  -   The Civil War Through Emancipation  12/16  -  The Civil War - Uncivil to the End  12/20  -   The Fight for the Soul (and spoils) of the South  01/03 -   The Old South with a New Face

11/18 - Life in the Antebellum South

• Life on a Southern Plantation
• The Booker T. Washington Plantation
• Mark Twain and Life on the River
• Food in the South
• The Tobacco Industry Today

11/25 - Thanksgiving Break - No Update


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11/22 - Life in Antebellum North

• Walt Whitman and the American Democracy
• Herman Melville and Whaling
• Food, Artisans, and Farms
• Music and Dance
• Racism in the North
• Paths of Resisitance and Rebellion
• Bounty Hunters and Solomon Northrup
• Mumia Abu-Jamal

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12/02 - Paths of Resistance and Rebellion

• Negro Gabriel
• Denmark Vesey
• Nat Turner
• John Brown
• Amistad Revolt
• The Death Penalty Today

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12/6 - The Abolitionists and the Underground Railroad

• The Fugitive Slave Act
• The Underground Railroad
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglas
• Liberia

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12/9 - Flashpoints on the Road to the War

• The Missouri Compromise of 1820 & the Compromise of 1850
• Dred Scott
• The Life & Election of Abraham Lincoln
• The Confederacy Formed
• Fort Sumter

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12/13 - The Civil War through Emancipation

• The Early Battles
• Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
• Women and the War
• Indians in the Civil War
• Youth in the Civil War
• Children in Conflict around the World Today

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12/16 - The Civil War- Uncivil to the End

• Blacks in the War
• Harriet Tubman
• Grant's Overland Campaign
• Sherman's Campaigns
• The Last Battle and Surrender at Appomattox
• Lincoln's Assasination
• Military Spending in the US Today

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12/20 - The Fight for the Soul (and the spoils) of the South

• The Freedman's Bureau
• Land Redistributed and Migration West
• Sojourner Truth
• The Black Codes and the Memphis Race Riot
• The Rise of the KKK
• The Radical Republicans Strike Back
• Affirmative Action Today

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1/3 - The Old South with a New Face

• African Americans in the Government
• The Jim Crow Laws
• Stopping the Black Vote
• Booker T. and the Atlanta Compromise
• Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, and Bate's March
• Hate Crimes Today

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