9 June: Visit and summarize the contents of PBS's web site, Indian Removal, which is devoted to Andrew Jackson. Then pretend you are a member of Congress and you are listening to his speech. Craft a reply that in summary argues that you do or do not support his policy, then react by pulling the past into your present.
12 June: Summarize the arguments of the Seventh Debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.
19 June: Frederick Douglas, the great African American abolitionist, was invited to offer a tribute to Abraham Lincoln at the opening of the Freedman's Monument at Lincoln Park. How is his assessment similar to and different from your own?