Civil War & Reconstruction
Watch: Crash Course 20, The Civil War, Part 1
Watch: Crash Course 21, The Civil War, Part II
Watch: Crash Course 22, Reconstruction and 1876
(Note: You can find transcriptions of many of the Crash Course videos here: https://nerdfighteria.info/cat/143)
Read: Serwer, Adam. “The Myth of the Kindly Robert E. Lee.” The Atlantic. June 4, 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/

Weekly Writing 7:  What does Sewer say is the myth about Robert E. Lee?  How does he challenge that myth?  Why does he think it develops?  What does it suggest about why so many memorials of Lee were put up so many years after the Civil War ended? What is your opinion about what should happen to memorials of Lee and other Confederate soldiers? How does the article add to or complicate the information in the Crash Course videos?

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