Pbs Teachers: Conflicting Newspaper Accounts (Civil War Lesson Plan) [Pdf]

Multilayered activity that begins with analysis of a series of photographs of the battle of Antietam and ends with writing an account of the battle in the style of a nineteenth-century war correspondent from opposing perspectives of North or South. Includes links to online resources for historical photographs and newspaper accounts. Recommends but does not require viewing of the third episode in the PBS-aired series on the Civil War by Ken Burns.