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Citizenship and The Civil War Edit-a-thon
- Learn to edit and contribute to Wikipedia in a room once occupied by President Abraham Lincoln!
- With the help of experienced Wikipedians, attendees will learn to edit and contribute to Wikipedia articles. We will improve articles that address the concept of citizenship during The Civil War (See work list below). This event will be held at President Lincoln's Cottage on the anniversary of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. The event's theme is inspired by the Cottage's current exhibition, American by Belief.
When
- Friday, September 22, 2017 4PM-6PM
Where
- President Lincoln's Cottage [1]
- 140 Rock Creek Church Road NW
- Washington, DC 20011
Presentation
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Articles to work on
[edit]Worklists
[edit]This list features a selection of articles related to today's topic. Please feel free to edit articles that do not appear on this list.
Articles of interest
Please select the citations to view suggested online resources. Additional material can be found in 'Other Resources'.
Anti-Immigrant Legislation and Sentiment
- Anti-Coolie Act [1] [2] [3]
- Burlingame Treaty[4] [5]
- Chinese Exclusion Act[6] [7] [8]
- Geary Act[9]
- Nativism (politics)[10] [11]
- Know Nothing
Pro-immigrant Legislation and Sentiment
Other Pertinent Legislation
Immigrant Soldiers and The Civil War [20]
- 39th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Garibaldi Guard) [21] [22] [23]
- German Americans in the American Civil War [24]
- Hispanics in the American Civil War [25] [26]
- Irish Americans in the American Civil War [27] [28]
- Italian Americans in the Civil War
- Jews in the Civil War[29] [30] [31]
African American Soldiers in the Civil War[32]
- Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War[33] [34]
- United States Colored Troops [35] [36]
- Militia Act of 1862 [37]
Emancipation
- Confiscation Acts[38] [39]
- Confiscation Act of 1861 [40] [41]
- Confiscation Act of 1862[42] [43]
- Emancipation Proclamation [44] [45]
Immigration and Citizenship During The Civil War
- Irish Immigration During the Civil War[46]
- History of Immigration and Naturalization in the US[47] [48]
- History of Chinese Americans [49]
- Italian Americans during the Civil War [50]
Civil Unrest
Other Resources
[edit]- Homestead Act: Library of Congress
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collections on Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Historical Library
- Chinese American Exclusion/Inclusion: New York Historical Society
- Harvard University Open Collections Program: Aspiration, Acculturation, and Impact, Immigration to the United States 1789-1930
- Lincoln/Net: Southern Illinois University Libraries
- Becoming American Under Fire by Christian G. Samito
- A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, by James Ford Rhodes. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1917. Full text available on Wikisource
- Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian and Civil Wars, by Dabney Herndon Maury. 2nd edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. Full text available on Wikisource
Basics on editing Wikipedia
[edit]- Wikipedia:Five pillars and Wikipedia:Core content policies
- Wikipedia:Your first article
- Help:Getting started
- Cheatsheet for Wiki markup
- Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
- Citation hunt: Help find proper citations for missing references in Wikipedia articles
- Wikidata main page
- Wikidata in Brief, a one-page overview
- The Wikidata Distributed Game: play to help improve Wikidata information!
- Wikimedia Commons, where image, sound and video files are hosted
- Wikimedia Commons category for images about the American Civil War
- Wikisource, where public domain texts are hosted and transcribed
- Wikipedia:Teahouse, a friendly place to help new editors get started and to get your questions answered about editing Wikipedia
Citation tools
[edit]- Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books
- DOI Wikipedia reference generator
- New York Times Wikipedia reference generator
Outcomes
[edit]Articles created
[edit]Articles improved
[edit]- Geary Act -- standardized and combined footnotes, updated broken links
- Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War -- waded into the Talk page to chime in about some inappropriate merge proposals. Added information about African American medical officers, added a few footnotes
References
[edit]- ^ "Anti-Coolie Act: April 26, 1862" (PDF).
- ^ "Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873 WEDNESDAY, January 16, 1867". Library of Congress: American Memory, Page 103.
- ^ Gyory, Andrew (1998). Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
- ^ "The Burlingame-Seward Treaty, 1868". Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations. Office of the Historian: United States Department of State.
- ^ Briggs, Jr., V. M. (2001). "American unionism and U.S. immigration policy". Backgrounder, Center for Immigration Studies.
- ^ Malloy, Timothy (December 1947). "A Century of Chinese Immigration: A Brief Review" (PDF). Immigration and Naturalization Service Monthly Review. 5 (6): 69–74.
- ^ Gyory, Andrew (1998). Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
- ^ "Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)". Harvard University Open Collections Program.
- ^ Young, Judy; Chang, Gordon H.; Lai, Him Mark (2006). Chinese American Voice for the Gold Rush to the Present. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
- ^ Holt, Ph.D., Michael F. "Nativism". Lincoln/Net. Southern Illinois University Libraries.
- ^ Boissoneault, Lorraine (January 26, 2017). "How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American Politics". Smithsonian Magazine.
- ^ "An Act to Encourage Immigration". The New York Times. August 3, 1864.
- ^ "An Act to Encourage Immigration" (PDF). Library of Congress.
- ^ Silverman, Jason. "Lincoln's 'Forgotten' Act to Encourage Immigration". lincolnscottage.org.
- ^ Becker, Sarah (June 27, 2017). "An Act to Encourage Immigration". Old Town Crier.
- ^ Thayer, Eli (1887). The New England emigrant aid company, and its influence, through the Kansas contest, upon national history. Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Printing and Publishing Company.
- ^ "The Homestead Act of 1862". National Archives.
- ^ "About the Homestead Act". National Park Service.
- ^ "Library of Congress" (PDF).
- ^ Doyle, Don H. (June 29, 2015). "The Civil War Was Won by Immigrant Soldiers". Time Magazine.
- ^ "GARIBALDI GUARD". The New York Times. May 26, 1861.
- ^ Alduino, Frank W.; Coles, David J. (2007). Sons of Garibaldi in Blue and Gray: Italian Americans in the Civil War. Youngstown, New York: Cambria Press. ISBN 978-1934043806.
- ^ Doyle, Don H. (September 26, 2011). "Bully for Garibaldi". The New York Times.
- ^ "German Americans in the Civil War Era". Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- ^ "Hispanics and the Civil War". National Park Service.
- ^ "Hispanics in the US Army". Army.mil.
- ^ "They Fought Like Men… Irish Women in the Civil War" (PDF). National Park Service.
- ^ "The Forgotten Irish: Irish Emigrant Experiences in America". AOTOS Blog. National Archives.
- ^ Nathan, Debbie (November 11, 2015). "A Very Jewish Civil War". Tablet Magazine.
- ^ "Shapell Manuscript Foundation".
- ^ Wolf, Simon (1895). The American Jew as Patriot and Citizen. Philadelphia: Levytype Company.
- ^ "Black Soldiers in the U.S. Military During the Civil War". Educator Resources. National Archives.
- ^ "African American Odyssey: The Civil War". Library of Congress.
- ^ "Fighting for Freedom, Black Union Soldiers of the Civil War". City of Alexandria.
- ^ "United States Colored Troops The Role of African Americans in the U.S. Army". Civil War Trust.
- ^ "United States Colored Troops in the Civil War". National Park Service.
- ^ "The Militia Act of 1862". Freedmen & Southern Society Project.
- ^ Pinsker, Matthew. "Congressional Confiscation Acts". Emancipation Digital Classroom. Dickinson College.
- ^ "Landmark Legislation: The Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862". United States Senate.
- ^ Pinsker, Matthew. "Congressional Confiscation Acts". Emancipation Digital Classroom. Dickinson College.
- ^ "Landmark Legislation: The Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862". United States Senate.
- ^ Pinsker, Matthew. "Congressional Confiscation (Emancipated slaves whose owners took up arms against the Union)]] Acts". Emancipation Digital Classroom. Dickinson College.
- ^ "Landmark Legislation: The Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862". United States Senate.
- ^ "Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress". Library of Congress.
- ^ "The Emancipation Proclamation". Library of Congress.
- ^ "Irish in the American Civil War".
- ^ "Early American Immigration Policies". US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
- ^ "A History of U.S. Citizenship". LA Times. July 4, 1997.
- ^ "The Chinese Experience in 19th Century America". University of Illinois.
- ^ "Italian Immigration". Library of Congress.
- ^ Harris, Leslie M. "The New York City Draft Riots of 1863". University of Chicago.
- ^ Wheeler, Linda (April 29, 2013). "The New York draft riots of 1863". Washington Post.
- ^ Anbinder, Tyler (2012). FIVE POINTS: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum. New York: The Free Press.
- ^ Chamberlain, Ted (March 24, 2003). ""Gangs of New York": Fact vs. Fiction". National Geographic.