LisaTX wrote:
Anna1111 wrote:
Indeed, everyone has their perspective on things,huh?
But - don't worry - we're definitely hearing both sides of the story in our research : )
I'm curious what curriculum or resources you are using for this study?
Well, it happened rather spontaneously because of our family travel this summer.
We were in Vicksburg,MS - a site of a famous batttlefield. We went to the battlefield and its museum, and several museums in the city, as well as an antebellum home where Jefferson Davis gave a speech once.
DD has read several books on the topic from the "Dear America" and "My America" series.
And, from an Ohio History textbook, the section on the civil war.
And a visit to Lincoln's birthplace.
maybe some other stuff, too, that I'm not thinking of right off.