This module, the fifth installment of the multi-part Poetry in America series, explores the Poetry of the Civil War and its Aftermath. We will:- Encounter such poets as Herman Melville, Julia Ward Howe, Walt Whitman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, Emma Lazarus and W.E.B DuBois.
- Examine the language of patriotism, pride, justice, violence, loss, and memory inspired by the Nation's greatest conflict.
- Travel to Boston's Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Monument, and to Harvard's Memorial Hall, two iconic sites of Civil War public memory.
Distinguished guests for this module include Harvard President Drew Faust, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner, Professor and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Henry Louis Gates Jr., baritone Davone Tines, and Harvard Civil War scholar John Stauffer, among others.
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