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Peer reviewedHutchinson, Joseph – Social Education, 2005
This article describes how students in an American history class learned about the Civil War through soldiers' letters. Letters from the Civil War era come in a variety of styles and syntax. Some are easy to read while others are extremely difficult to transcribe. But every one of them speaks to the reader, revealing an unknown entity from another…
Descriptors: United States History, Teaching Methods, War, Letters (Correspondence)
