• 1. Prints – (5%)
• Nathaniel Currier & James Merritt Ives
• Print technique
• 2. Photography – (20%)
• Matthew Brady and associates, and photography
• 3. Painters – (25%)
• George Caleb Bingham
• Thomas Cole
• Asher B. Durand
• Fitz Hugh Lane
• William Sidney Mount

• 1. The Civil War as a great musical melting pot of regional musical styles.
• 2. The rise of amateur music making that allowed for the flowering of brass bands, parlor music and songs, choral music, etc.
• 3. The role of industrialization in the manufacture of instruments and production of music.
• 4. Genres:
• Brass band music
• Civil War camp songs
• Revival/religious songs
• Parlor music

Unlike most past competitions, the music portion will not be a composer-driven study. Rather it will focus on what was happening in the country that resulted in the music of the Civil War era. There will certainly be composers and song writers who will be important, but the competition will focus on the styles, typical formal structures of the music, and musical influences. Listening will obviously be a part of what students do, but identification of specific works will not occupy nearly as important a role as in past competitions.

• Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier

• Ambrose Bierce: (the following Bierce selections are all from Civil War Stories, Dover Thrift Ed.)
• "A Horseman in the Sky".
• "Killed at Resaca".
• "The Coup de Grace".
• "The Story of a Conscience".
• "The Mocking-bird".
• Mark Twain:
• "The War Prayer".

• James Russell Lowell:
• "After the Burial".
• Emily Dickinson:
• "All overgrown by cunning moss".
• "I taste a liquor never brewed".
• "A bustle in the house".
• "I died for beauty".
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
• "The Slave's Dream".
• "The Slave in the Dismal Swamp".
• "To William E. Channing".
• "The Slave Singing at Midnight".
• "The Arsenal at Springfield".
• Walt Whitman:
• "Beat! Beat! Drums!".
• "Cavalry Crossing a Ford".
• "Reconciliation".
• "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim".
• "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd".
• Paul Laurence Dunbar:
• "The Colored Soldiers".
• "Ode to Ethiopia".
• "Frederick Douglass".

• A. Complex Numbers:
• 1. Conversions between Rectangular and Polar Coordinates.
• 2. Conversions between Rectangular and Polar Form.
• 3. Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division (Both Forms).
• 4. Powers and Roots of Complex Numbers.
• B. Quaternions.
• 1. Identities.
• 2. Addition, Subtractions, Multiplication, and Absolute Value.
• 3. History.

• A. Missouri Compromise - 1820.
• B. Nat Turner and Dred Scott.
• C. Abolitionists.
• D. Compromise of 1850, including Fugitive Slave Law.
• E. Kansas Nebraska Act.
• F. Bleeding Kansas.
• G. Brooks-Sumner in Congress.
• H. Constitutional Issues.
• G. Secession Acts & Formation of Confederacy.

* The focus of these events should be on their political, economic, and social significance to the start of the war.

• A. Indiana:
• 1. Hoosier Leaders
• 2. Morgan's Raiders.
• 3. Underground Railroad
• 4. Camp Morton.

• A. Three plans for reconstruction.
• B. Presidents-Lincoln, Johnson, Grant.
• C. Freedmans Bureau.
• D. Amendments - 13th, 14th, 15th.
• E. Reconstruction Acts.
• F. Ku Klux Klan.
• G. Reconstruction governments in the South-carpetbaggers/scalawags & African American participation.
• H. Impeachment trial of President Johnson.
• E. Compromise of 1876-Hayes/Tilden.

* The focus of these events should be on their political and social significance.

Sources: The listed books should be used in addition to the standard US History textbooks.

Dickson, Keith D. "The Civil War for Dummies" ISBN 0-7645-5244-9
Franklin, John Hope "Reconstruction After the Civil War" ISBN 0-2262-6079-8
Vaughan, Donald "The Everything Civil War Book" ISBN 1-58062-366-2

This outline is the committee's attempt to arrange in some order a very complicated period in US History. It is in no way complete. We have only suggested the main threads to be considered in the students' journey toward an understanding of a nation divided.