Have students read secondary sources about health, sickness, and death
in Civil-War era America and tie their findings from their newspaper
search with what they have found in their secondary sources. Did their
findings support or undermine the interpretations they read in the secondary
accounts?
Have students use the newspaper search function to search another
aspect of daily life in the years just before the Civil War, such as
accidents, crime, or education, and write a paragraph about their findings.
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module created by Alice Carter
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