Weekly Schedule of

Activities, Guiding Questions, and Core Readings:

PART 1, July 6-12

Theme: The Old South and Wartime Prelude to Reconstruction.

Guiding Question: How was Reconstruction, both its success and failures, a referendum on the meaning of Civil War?

Tuesday, July 6

AFTERNOON SESSION: An opening address and group discussion will be facilitated by Dr. David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of History at Yale University. (via web meeting app and Spatial virtual reality)

Day 1. Wednesday July : Prelude to Reconstruction

Daily question: How did emancipation change the stakes of the Civil War?

MORNING SESSION: Introductions to each other, to the staff, to the institute projects and to institution resources. Overview of institute and the university. (via web meeting app and Spatial virtual reality)

AFTERNOON SESSION: Lawrence S. Rowland, PhD (USCB, distinguished professor emeritus) will lead a session on the history of Beaufort County through the Civil War (via web meeting app and Spatial virtual reality)

Reading: Eric Foner, Forever Free, The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (distributed pre-institute); selections from W.E.B .DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (distributed digitally)

Primary Source: Selections from Morris, Yes, Lord, I Know the Road: A Documentary History of African Americans in South Carolina 1526-2008 (distributed pre-institute)

Day 2, Thursday, July 8: Reconstruction Tour

Daily question: How did the meaning of “Freedom” become a point of conflict in the South?

ALL-DAY SESSION: All day tour of Reconstruction sites guided by Beaufort historian and Director of the Parris Island Museum Stephen Wise, PhD (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and/or thinkglink VR tour)

Reading: Wise and Rowland, A History of Beaufort County Vol. II: Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redmption (distributed pre-institute)

Primary Sources: List and visits to of physical locations in Beaufort County

(Freedman's Cottage, Beaufort)

Day 3, Friday, July 9: Primary Sources

Daily Question: How can primary sources help with the challenges of understanding the Reconstruction era?

Readings: Selections from Wineburg, Martin and Monte-Sano: Reading Like a Historian; James W. Cook, "Seeing the Visual in US History" Journal of American History, 95:2 (September 2008); selections from Morris, Yes, Lord, I Know the Road: A Documentary History of African Americans in South Carolina; selections from John David Smith, A Just and Lasting Peace: A Documentary History of Reconstruction

MORNING SESSION: Daisy Martin, PhD (Stanford History Education Group) will lead a session on reading and interrogating primary sources and methods for exploring Reconstruction through these documents (via web meeting app and Spatial virtual reality)

AFTERNOON SESSION: Peter H. Wood, PhD (Duke University) will lead teachers in an exploration of Reconstruction visual culture through an analysis of the period paintings of Winslow Homer (via web meeting app and Spatial virtual reality)

Day 4, Saturday, July 10: Penn School and Reconstruction National Monument

Daily Question: What far-reaching changes did Reconstruction have on the South?

MORNING SESSION: Dr. Emory Campbell (executive director, emeritus, Penn Center) will lead the teachers on a tour of Penn Center and the York W. Bailey Museum, as well as a cultural view of the Sea Islands (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

AFTERNOON SESSION: Michael Allen (National Park Service) will lead a session on the two-decade long process and experience of establishing the Reconstruction Era National Monument in Beaufort County (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Afternoon session with National Park Service TBA (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

(2017 NEH Summer Scholars at National Park Service public planning meeting for Reconstruction National Monument)

Readings: Vernon Burton: Penn Center: A History Preserved; The Reconstruction Era: Official National Park Service Handbook

Primary Sources: Laura Townes’ Diary (full-text available on institute webpage)

Day 5, Sunday, July 11: Day of rest and relaxation.

Day 6, Monday July 12: Teaching with Primary Sources

Daily Question: Why did Union victory not result in large-scale revolutionary changes in the South?

MORNING SESSION: Lesson Plan Projects with Lemuel Watson and Thomas Thurston.(Gilder Lehrman Center) (via web meeting app and Spatial virtual reality)

AFTERNOON SESSION: Daisy Martin will lead a session on teaching with primary resources, contextualizing sources, evaluating sources and how to synthesize multiple accounts. She will use the recently released archive of Freedmen's bureau papers and also take a close look at Eric Foner's collection of primary sources included in the latest edition of Howard Fast, Freedom Road. The teachers will utilize sites like Gilder Lehrman, edsitement and more that have lesson plans using primary sources. (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Reading: Howard Fast, Freedom Road: A New Edition.

Primary Source: Smith, A Just and Lasting Peace, Part II

(2015 NEH Summer Scholars examining primary visual sources)

Day 7, Tuesday, July 13: The Port Royal Experiment

MORNING SESSION: Stephen Wise will lead a session on the “Rehearsal for Reconstruction”: the wartime first efforts early to reconstruct the South in Beaufort (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

AFTERNOON: Participants will meet informally in small groups to discuss the content and teaching strategies covered in week one. (via web meeting app and Spatial virtual reality)

PART 2: July 15-July 21: Reconstruction and its Aftermath.

Guiding Question: Why has Reconstruction history undergone such fundamental reinterpretations?

Day 8, Wednesday, July 14: “Being there”: A sensory history of Reconstruction

Cooking Demo and session on sensory history of Reconstruction TBA (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

(2015 NEH Summer Scholars on "Reconstruction Kayak Tour")

Day 9, Thursday, July 15: The Politics of Reconstruction / Reconstruction for Unexpected Audiences

Daily Question: How could the nation have dealt differently with the social, economic, and political evolution of Reconstruction?

MORNING SESSION: Heather Cox Richardson, PhD (Boston College) will lead a session on the Politics of Reconstruction. (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

AFTERNOON SESSION: Group discussion with Heather Cox Richardson of key points of morning session and group activity centered around the incorporation of graphic novels and visual sources into the curriculum of Reconstruction. (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Readings: Heather Cox Richardson, West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War

Primary Sources: Smith, A Just and Lasting Peace, Part III

Day 10, Friday, July 16: Mitchelville Freedom Park

Daily question: How did the Port Royal Experiment contribute to the Freedman’s concept of self-governing at Mitchelville (nation’s first self-governing settlement for freedmen)?

MORNING SESSION: Institute Director Brent Morris (who also serves on the Mitchelville Preservation Project Advisory Board) will provide background information on Mitchelville, the Port Royal Experiment, and the development of Mitchelville Freedom Park (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

AFTERNOON SESSION: Virtual visit to Hilton Head Island and the Mitchelville site. Teachers will visit the site, meet with leaders of the Mitchelville Preservation Project, and survey the progress of archaeological excavation underway on site. (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Reading: Willie Lee Rose: Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment

Primary Source: Selections from The Manuscripts of the American Missionary Society (available on institute webpage); Archaeological Data Recovery at Mitchelville (38BU2301), compiled by Brockington and Associates (link to full text on institute webpage)

Afternoon session on ongoing NEH-funded virtual reality experience at Mitchelville TBA (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Day 11, Saturday, July 17: : Reconstruction Memory and Race Relations

Daily Question: How did differing ways of remembering Reconstruction affect race relations in America through the present?

MORNING SESSION: Bernard Powers, PhD (College of Charleston) will lead a session on the legacy of Reconstruction in the Jim Crow era through recent developments, including the 2015 Emanuel AME Church massacre (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Afternoon session on Reconstruction, historical memory, and monuments TBA (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Reading: Powers, We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel

Primary Sources: Selections from Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence (link to full text on institute webpage)

(2017 NEH Summer Scholars at Mitchelville Freedom Park)

Day 12, Sunday, July 18: Day of rest and relaxation.

Day 13, Monday, July 19 Personal Stories of Reconstruction

Daily Question: What were the limits of Black Freedom?

MORNING SESSION: Melissa Cooper, PhD (Rutgers University-Newark) will lead a session that explores “The untold stories of Reconstruction” through the narrative primary source accounts of former slaves recorded by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

AFTERNOON SESSION: Dr Cooper will lead an afternoon session on Gullah culture, the construction of race in America, and the legacies of Reconstruction (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Reading: David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

Primary Sources: selected WPA slave narratives (pdf copies of originals available on institute webpage).

Day 14, Tuesday, July 20: Reconstruction Past Meets the Future

MORNING SESSION: Betsy Newman (SC Educational Television Foundation) will lead a session/tour of Freewoods Farm, a 40-acre living farm museum replicating life on small freedman owned farm between 1865-1900.

Newman will also introduce participants to the NEH-funded project “Reconstruction360,” a multi-module web and mobile application that, for the first time, brings contemporary scholarship about Reconstruction to a project designed for mobile devices.

(via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Primary Sources: Selections from Freedman’s Bureau Records (link to National Archives database on institute webpage)

*Deadline for proposal for new or revised lesson plan/curricular resource

Week Three July 21-27: Historical Memory and the Modern Civil Rights Movement.

Guiding Question: Why did it take a century for the promises made by Reconstruction and the 13, 14, and 15 Amendments to be kept?

Day 15, Wednesday, July 21: Reconstruction and the Promise of Democracy

Daily Question: What is the legacy of Radical Reconstruction?

MORNING SESSION: Patricia Sullivan, PhD (University of South Carolina) will lead a session on the leadership during the Civil Rights Movement and their understanding of the promise of democracy made during Reconstruction (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

AFTERNOON SESSION: “Lowcountry Landscapes”: Session on Art Education, creativity, and Reconstruction Era by Minuette Floyd, PhD (University of South Carolina) (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Afternoon: Scheduled process, project, and lesson plan meetings with Thomas Thurston

Evening talk and exhibition with Civil Rights photopgrapher Cecil Williams TBA

Reading: Patricia Sullivan: Lift Every Voice

Primary Sources: Selected papers of Joseph Delaine, and Modjeska Simkins, and I.DeQuincy Newman (SC Digital Collections)

Day 16, Thursday, July 22: “Reconstructing Reconstruction”

Daily Question: How has the shifting memory of Reconstruction left important parts of the story untold?

MORNING SESSION: Institute Director Brent Morris leads a session on the historical memory of Reconstruction and changing interpretations of the period by historians since 1865, “The Historiography of Reconstruction” (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

AFTERNOON SESSION: Orville Vernon Burton, PhD (Clemson University) leads a session on the legal ramifications of the Reconstruction Era in today’s judicial system, focusing on his experiences as an expert witness in federal and state minority rights and voting rights cases. (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Reading: Morris, “Constructing Reconstruction: Race, Memory, and Issues that Divide”

Primary Sources: Dissenting opinions in Elmore v Rice (1947) and Briggs v Elliott (1952) in Morris, Yes Lord, I Know the Road: A Documentary History of African Americans in South Carolina 1526-2008

Day 17, Friday, July 23: The “Second Reconstruction”

Daily Question: Was the modern Civil Rights Movement an extension of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era?

MORNING SESSION: Mari Crabtree, PhD (College of Charleston) leads a session connecting the legacies of Reconstruction to twentieth century school desegregation

AFTERNOON SESSION: Forum on the legacies of Reconstruction in American Education (panelists will include some of the first students to integrate Charleston’s public schools in 1963, scholars of education, and local historians) (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Reading: Patricia Sullivan, Lift Every Voice; Blight, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.

Primary Sources: Selected papers of Joseph Delaine (SC Digital Collections link on institute webpage)

Day 18, Saturday, July 24: Work Day

Daily Question: How has Reconstruction “Memory” and “History” transformed America?

Scheduled visual essay/lesson plan work meetings with Thomas Thurston and Lemuel Watson (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Reading: Morris, ed., The Untold Stories: Visual Essays on America’s Reconstruction

Primary Sources: ALIC (Archives Library Information Center) link on institute webpage

Day 19, Sunday, July 25: Telling the Untold Stories

Daily Question: How did the images, cartoons and drawings during the Reconstruction era make such a lasting impact on America’s view of Reconstruction?

MORNING SESSION: Lesson plan presentations (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

AFTERNOON SESSION: Lesson plan presentations, continued (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Institute wrap-up, reflection, evaluation, and final input and suggestions for the website.

Evening virtual reception and celebration TBA (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)

Day 20, Monday, July 26: Why Reconstruction Matters Today

Guiding Question: Is an accurate understanding of Reconstruction necessary to achieve citizenship, rights, and democracy?

MORNING SESSION: Institute concludes with a roundtable discussion moderated by Walter Edgar (distinguished professor emeritus, University of South Carolina) featuring visiting faculty from the previous three weeks.

Roundtable will include extensive Q and A session with participants and be recorded for rebroadcast on Walter Edgar’s Journal, the most popular weekly radio show on SC Public Radio. (via web meeting app, Spatial virtual reality, and thinglink VR tour)