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"Wow! Where were these books when I was in
high school?...[a] solid literary analysis of the novel.... This is
a complete study guide that will be well used by teachers, students,
and book group leaders."
VOYA
(print)
Every generation of
readers has interpreted the meaning of The
Red Badge of Courage anew. Its
appeal is both historic and universal – historical in its Civil War setting and
universal in its relation of the experiences of a young man who is thrust into
a situation he doesn’t understand and cannot cope with. This collection of historical documents,
collateral readings, and commentary will promote interdisciplinary study of the
novel and enrich the reader’s understanding of its themes and historical
context. A wide variety of more than 40 primary documents and firsthand accounts
brings to life the Civil War experiences of leaders and soldiers of the Union
and Confederacy, especially in the Battle of Chancellorsville, which is the
setting for the novel. Carefully
selected memoirs, poems, short stories,
newspaper articles, and interviews illuminate the historical setting, the theme
of cowardice and desertion, battlefield experiences, the soldier’s life in
camp, and the issue of pacifism as it relates to The Red Badge of Courage.
In addition, the online sourcebook provides the user access to:
- E text of The Red Badge of Courage
- Civil War
Online: Over 1,000 war images and
photographs, timelines, secession documents, reports and statistics, and
personal accounts from veterans
- Lee’s Greatest
Victory: Chancellorsville. Historian
Robert Krick’s exhaustive 42-part
series on the Battle of Chancellorsville with photographs and illustrations
- Fully linked Civil
War Chronology
- Civil War Photograph
Collection from The American Memory Project, containing more than 1,000
photographs of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects
- Eyewitness account of
the surrender that led to the Civil War
- Letters and Diaries
of Civil War Soldiers: A selection of
letters and diaries from Union and Confederate soldiers
- Civil War Women:Online archival collection about women and their role in America’s Civil War
- Battle of Antietam:Maps and Photos
- Abolition as a Social
Movement: Library of Congress abolitionist literature, including
advertisements, sermons, pamphlets, songs and more
- Audio of historical
narrative of Harriet Scott’s struggle for freedom, along with her husband’s,
Dred Scott.
- Battle Sites on: Fort
Sumter, Bull Run with Battle Map, Shiloh, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville,
Gettysburg, Cold Harbor and more
- Biographical profiles
of Stephen Crane, General Robert E. Lee, George B. McClellan, Mark Twain,
Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas
Nelson Page, Ernest Hemingway, Jefferson Davis, General Irvin McDowell, General
Ambrose Burnside, General Joseph Hooker, Stonewall Jackson and others
- Antiwar sentiment
from interpretations of Christianity and biblical teachings: E-Texts to Sermon of the Mount, Book of
Luke, Deuteronomy 7 and more
- Glossary of cultural
references and historical idioms from Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage
- Web-based study questions
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