Editor-in-Chief

Your job as Editor-in-Chief is to coordinate all phases of the newspaper project. Your initial task will be to assign articles to your newspaper correspondents. The required articles are listed below:

Causes of the Civil War (500-600 words) – power, balance, internal improvements, slavery, nationalism v. states rights

Battles (400-500 words each)– select three of the following (separate articles):

First Manassas

Second Manassas

Antietam

Fredericksburg

Chancellorsville

Gettysburg

Vicksburg

Shiloh

Cedar Creek

Wilderness

Spotsylvania

Geography (200-300 words) – select three of the following (separate articles):

Geography of your region

How geography can be used for strategy in battle

Mason-Dixon Line

Movement of regiments (Sherman’s March to the Sea)

Strategy maps

Maps of battles

Common underground railroad routes

Economics (200-300 words)

Economic health of your region at onset of war

Economic strengths and weaknesses

Costs of the war

Regional economy

Transportation and Communication (250-350 words)

Home Front (500-600 words) – War efforts by women, Civil War fashions, cost of war on families, shortages and inflation

Medicine (300-400 words)

Technology/Weapons (400-500 words)

Soldier’s Life (250-350 words)

Biography of a Great War Leader (200-300 words)

Biography of President (200-300 words)

Political Cartoon

Civil War Letters Home (350-450 words)

African American Perspective (400-500 words)

Editorial (300-400 words)