As noted on the schedule, there are two assigned readings for the last week of class: pages 79-108 of the Brown book that we read from at the beginning of the semester, and an essay by Tony Horwitz entitled “Cats of the Confederacy,” which is now available for download on OWL-Space.
For your final blog post of the semester, you should do two things:
- Briefly report on your progress with the group project. What have you been doing this week? What will you do next?
- Using the assigned readings to support and explain your answer, briefly respond to the question that Horwitz poses at the end of his essay on p. 44: is there “any way for white Southerners to honor their [Confederate] forbears without insulting” black Southerners? More generally, based on what you have learned about the Civil War this semester, what are appropriate and inappropriate ways to commemorate the Civil War in the South, one hundred and fifty years after the War began? Remember: it is imperative to ground your opinion in the readings we have done.
These posts will be due on Thursday morning, April 21, at 9 a.m.