5 page minimum requirement, arguementative paper, doubvle spaced, 1 inch margins, times new roman 12 point font with Chicago Manual Style or MLA Handbook citations (both in-text and bibliography). The questions is to: Evaluate the effectiveness of Drew Gilpin Faust’s argument by comparing it to at least three primary sources (you should rely mostly on the primary sources to build your argument, however, you can also use the secondary readings linked on the syllabus and lecture notes for background information. Here are the primary sources: Must use at least 3, can only use these provided:
- https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/the-civil-war/poem-about-civil-war-nurses-1866/
- https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/the-civil-war/ambrose-bierce-recalls-his-experience-at-the-battle-of-shiloh-1881/
- https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/the-civil-war/civil-war-songs-1862/
- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/brown-history-john-browns-body/
- https://www.civilwararchive.com/LETTERS/letters.htm#google_vignette
- https://altchive.org/
- https://csidixie.org/ (This is an excellent archive for those of you looking to reconstruct death and mourning practices before the Civil War, particularly in the antebellum South.)
- https://valley.newamericanhistory.org/explore
- https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/07225_FPS.pdf
- https://www.nps.gov/articles/-my-very-dear-wife-the-last-letter-of-major-sullivan-ballou.htm This is the link to the book: https://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/history-collection/Drew%20Gilpin%20Faust%20-%20This%20Republic%20of%20Suffering_%20De_War%20%28v5.0%29.pdf
The book is not a primary source, but background knowledge on it does seem required to answer the prompt.