Grade Range: 6-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, Lessons & ActivitiesDate Posted: 2/3/2011
In lesson from the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, students examine a primary source that might seem both familiar and strange: a yearbook from Rutgers in 1860, complete with farewell messages from classmates. On close study, the messages from reveal much about the complexities of the “brothers’ war.” This resource includes a timeline of national events during the students' time at Rutgers.
Discussions, Museum education
Photographs can be powerful connections to the past. Soldiers, for example often had their portra...
Civil War, North, Confederacy, Southern, student, Confederate States of America, Northern, Rutgers, plantation, states' rights, university, slavery, higher education, nineteenth century, secession, 19th Century, sectional crisis, 1860s, New Jersey, Union
Fleishman's depiction of the first Civil War battle relies on individual voices to give a human f...
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