Civil War Read In Training Details

[Caitlin is signed up for the Civil War Read In training and this is the email she received with the deets:]

Welcome to the Civil War Read-In training program!  The Cheney training on April 13, 10a-4p, will be at the Washington State Archives – Eastern Regional Branch, 960 Washington Street, Cheney 99004 on the Eastern Washington University campus in Cheney. See Visitor Information at http://www.ewu.edu/visit.xml.

Here are a few details to make that day of training most useful.

First, please be on time and please stay until the end – we have planned a very full day of training in working with primary materials as well as working with the technology to upload the evidence you find to our database.  Please bring a lunch – we’ll work through our lunchtime. Also, bring anything you would like to drink. You can bring your laptop, notebook or pad, if you have one, for note taking but there will probably be limited WiFi available.  If you do bring your laptops, make sure they are charged as outlets are limited.

Second, we included in this email a bibliography that you may sample, if you wish, to provide background for your work in the Read-In.  It is not required that you read any of these sources, just that you might want to.  A number of readers have requested this.

Third, here is the link to the template you will be completing as you go through your reading assignment :http://pathways.omeka.net/contribution. Once on the site, to enter the template, click on "Select Below", choose a type of reference and the template will open. 

Finally, is there someone you know who would enjoy this opportunity to read extraordinary primary sources from the 1857-1871 period?  From Washington Territory?  It’s fun and stimulating to read with a friend; consider inviting someone – but do let us know in email ahead of time, so that we can be prepared. 

Thank you!  See you soon, Darby Langdon and Lorraine McConaghy

Bibliography:

Davis, William.  John C. Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol. Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 1974.
Edwards, G. Thomas. “Six Oregon Leaders and the Far-Reaching Impact of America’s Civil War,” Oregon Historical Quarterly 100 (1999): 4-31.
Etulain, Richard W. Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War Era.  (Oregon State University Press, February 2013).
Ficken, Robert E. Washington Territory.  Pullman: WSU Press, 2002.
Foster, Charles J. “The Pacific Coast in the Civil War,” M.A. Thesis, University of Washington, 1924.
Hansen, David Kimball. “Public Response to the Civil War in Washington Territory and Oregon, 1861-1865.” M.A. Thesis, University of Washington, 1971.
Hendrickson, James E. Joe Lane of Oregon; Machine Politics and the Sectional Crisis, 1849-1861. New     Haven, Yale University Press, 1967.
Hunt, Aurora. The Amy of the Pacific, 1860-1866.  Glendale, CA:  Clark., 1951.
Johansen, Dorothy and Charles M. Gates, Empire of the Columbia:  A History of the Pacific Northwest. New York:  Harper & Row, 1967.
Johannsen, Robert W. Frontier Politics on the Eve of the Civil War.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press, 1955.
-----. The Frontier, The Union and Stephen A. Douglas, Urbana:  University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Josephy, Alvin M., The Civil War in the American West. New York:  Knopf, 1991.
Kilian, Crawford. Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia, Vancouver:  Douglas & McIntyre, 1978.
Lang, William L. Confederacy of Ambition:  William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory. Seattle:  University of Washington Press, 1996.
Lewis, Oscar. The War in the Far West: 1861-1865.  Garden City, NY:  Doubleday, 1961.
McArthur, Scott.  The Enemy Never Came:  Civil War in the Pacific Northwest.  University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
McConaghy, Lorraine and Judy Bentley, Free Boy:  A True Story of Slave and Master.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press, February 2013.
Richards, Kent D. Young Man in a Hurry: Washington’s First Territorial Governor, 1853-1857.  Pullman:  Washington State University Press, 1993.
Stevens, Hazard. The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens.  Boston:  Houghton, Mifflin, 1900.
Taylor, Quintard. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the West Norton, 1998.
Vouri, Michael.  The Pig War:  Standoff at Griffin Bay.  Friday Harbor:  Griffin Bay Bookstore, 1999.
West, Elliott.  The Last Indian War:  The Nez Perce Story.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2009.