Division and Reunion The Civil War in America's Story
by Chuck Taft
1. Did the Union win or did the Confederacy lose the Civil War?
1.1. Major battles and events
1.1.1. Fort Sumter
1.1.2. Bull Run
1.1.3. Shiloh and the West
1.1.4. Antietam
1.1.5. Fredericksburg
1.1.6. Chancellorsville
1.1.7. Gettysburg
1.1.8. Vicksburg
1.1.9. Petersburg
1.1.10. Appomattox
1.2. Resources of each side
1.3. Leadership
1.4. Home front production
1.5. Technology
1.6. Turning Points in the War
2. Was Reconstruction good, bad, or ugly?
2.1. Short term impact of the war
2.2. Reconstruction Plans
2.3. Reconstruction Amendments
2.4. Freedmen and Reconstruction
2.5. Radical Reconstruction
2.6. Growth of KKK and Jim Crow
2.7. End of Reconstruction
3. Is the Civil War valuable to study?
3.1. Impact today
3.2. Remembering the Civil War
3.3. Differing views - N and S
3.4. The Civil War and Wisconsin
3.5. The Confederate Flag controversey
3.6. The Civil War Sesquicentennial
4. How do we tell the story of slavery and the Civil War - and what does the story say?
4.1. Slave Narratives
4.2. Docuements
4.3. Poetry
4.4. Stories
4.5. Maps
4.6. Speeches
4.7. Art
4.8. Newspapers and Journals
4.9. Movies
4.10. Books
5. Could the United States have been talked off “the edge of the precipice”?
5.1. Differences between N & S
5.2. Secession arguments
5.3. The Decade of Decisions
5.3.1. Compromise of 1850
5.3.2. Kansas Nebraska Act
5.3.3. Dred Scott Decision
5.3.4. Lincoln Douglas Debates
5.3.5. John Brown and Harpers Ferry
5.3.6. Election of 1860