the Civil War and Reconstruction- Dissertation Essay Help

Read (Give me liberty by Foner 4th edition) Chapter 11 make sure to note the different sections as it will be a foundation for the following chapters in Major Problems
in the Civil War and Reconstruction- 1,2, 3.

Instructions

1. You should have a general idea of the author’s thesis and evidence-then of course the conclusions or what is important. It is an overview of how historians have
viewed the era and how we now look again at the analyses. As time passes and new historians or even older renowned ones rethink other methodologies, groups of people
and social context, we open more ideas of how to view and understand. For instance, Eric Foner has always been interested in the way freed people adjusted after the
war and their new status. He has written the seminal book on Reconstruction and we as historians and students of history need to start with him.

James McPherson is also acclaimed for his work with the causes of the war from the top-such as politics and economics. He is re-visiting an earlier historical analysis
by Charles A. Beard and still agrees with the historian from an earlier era. We also see more attention on the role of women as in the essay by LeeAnn Whites. Edward
Ayers talks about the first occupation looks at the importance from a modern global perspective.

Make sure to read the introduction and all of the italicized as it is a guide to the descriptions of primary source/documents and the arguments in the essays. You also
learn who the scholars are and where they are research faculty. Which means they have a terminal degree or Ph.D in history.

All essays incorporate historiography or how prior historians have written and what the methodologies are, i.e. the perspective. They then use primary sources to prove
how they have understood or revised the topic. They all have a thesis/argument/proof as in scholarly sources (the historians) and documents from the past. They also
conclude about the consequences or "So what does that mean in the end?"

You are to read our text and then the chapters in the Major Problems. Use these chapters to add information to what Foner writes in the sections. You may use the focus
and review as a guide if you want. So as always, we are building a larger analysis or a parer if you want to think about it in that way. It is really no different than
usual but now we are using more complex writings and more of them. Do not worry if you don’t get through all of the material, especially Chapter 1. But know enough to
be able to make three posts using at least two primary sources/documents and one essay from the following chapters 2 and 3. Please try to understand how the essays are
related but come from different perspectives.

For Chapter 2 The Slave South, make sure to understand the "problems" in the italicized introduction. The author talks about how similar yet diametrically
different the two areas were. Why could the differences not be reconciled? This chapter deals with the South and how the idea of slavery on every level was so
important yet led to criticism from the north. What make you of all this? This would be one post. Try to use chapter one as a guide. James McPherson argues the
csouthern exceptionalism. how do the primary sources/documents help you come to a conclusion? Then Steven Deyle talks about the importance of the domestic slave trade
and how it was an economy as well as political and led to social foundations. Use him as a guide if this is interesting to you.

Chapter 3 takes us to the Impending Crisis. Expansion has led to the crisis as in the balance of slave v. Free states as territory comes into the union. Kansas
Nebraska or Bleeding Kansas is so very important in every perspective-political, economic and social. In the end, we ask if both sides over reacted and why was the
priorities and concerns of all involved came to the fire.

William E. Gienapp writes from the perspective of political parties (Republican and the Slave Power). This is about the enormous power the south held in politics. Don
E. Fehrenbacher argues "the intensely reactive nature of southern sectionalism."

Finally how do you view the early problems using the readings? If you were to write a paper using all of the readings as research, what would your overall take be?
Make sure to use primary sources/documents and essays to formulate your thesis and evidence.

Please stay to not more than two paragraphs for each post. Then add to other’s post as usual.

Added video-not mandatory

The Slave Narratives