Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009 Time: 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. (EST)

How did the total mobilizations of the Civil War affect the northern and southern home fronts? What was life like for women on the northern and southern home fronts? What was life like for African Americans on the northern and southern home fronts?

LEADER:

Fitzhugh Brundage Umstead Professor of History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill National Humanities Center Fellow

• Assigned Readings
  1. Sarah Morgan Dawson, A Confederate Girl's Diary (DOC)
  2. Gail Hamilton, "A Call to My Countrywomen" (DOC)
  3. Harper's Weekly cartoon on Northern women's participation in the War (DOC)
  4. Bread Riot in Salisbury, Salisbury Daily Carolina Watchman, March 18, 1863
  5. Letter, Nancy Mangum to Gov. Zebulon Vance, April 9, 1863
  6. "Sowing and reaping," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 23, 1863
  7. Letter from Patrick Cleburne, January 2, 1864 (DOC)
  8. Testimony of Alonzo Jackson (DOC)
  9. Harper's Weekly, draft riot material, July 25, 1863 (DOC)
  10. Harper's Weekly, draft riot images (DOC)
  11. "If It Were Not for My Trust in Christ...," Testimony from Victims of New York's Draft Riots, July, 1863
• Seminar Presentation (PowerPoint, 218 KB)
• Seminar Evaluation (Available on day of seminar.)
• Forum