Bonus Paper

Watch the film Lincoln, which came out last year.  It is an interesting portrait of Lincoln and his attempts to secure the passage of the 13th Amendment.  Then listen to this podcast in which an historian critiques the accuracy of the film:  http://www.npr.org/2012/11/22/165671751/we-ask-a-historian-just-how-accurate-is-lincoln .  You then must write a 2-page paper that discusses the following questions:  What doe this film tell you about Lincoln?  How is this history different from what you read in textbooks?  In what ways is a historical picture like this useful and in what ways is it problematic?  The due date for this paper is the date of our mid-term.