Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Citizenship and The Civil War

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Citizenship and The Civil War Edit-a-thon




 * Learn to edit and contribute to Wikipedia in a room once occupied by President Abraham Lincoln!


 * With the help of experienced Wikipedians, attendees will learn to edit and contribute to Wikipedia articles. We will improve articles that address the concept of citizenship during The Civil War (See work list below). This event will be held at President Lincoln's Cottage on the anniversary of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. The event's theme is inspired by the Cottage's current exhibition, American by Belief.

When


 * Friday, September 22, 2017 4PM-6PM

Where


 * President Lincoln's Cottage
 * 140 Rock Creek Church Road NW
 * Washington, DC 20011

Worklists
This list features a selection of articles related to today's topic. Please feel free to edit articles that do not appear on this list.

Articles of interest

Please select the citations to view suggested online resources. Additional material can be found in 'Other Resources'.

Anti-Immigrant Legislation and Sentiment
 * Anti-Coolie Act
 * Burlingame Treaty
 * Chinese Exclusion Act
 * Geary Act
 * Nativism (politics)
 * Know Nothing

Pro-immigrant Legislation and Sentiment
 * An Act to Encourage Immigration
 * New England Emigrant Aid Company

Other Pertinent Legislation
 * Homestead Acts
 * Naturalization Act of 1870

Immigrant Soldiers and The Civil War
 * 39th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Garibaldi Guard)
 * German Americans in the American Civil War
 * Hispanics in the American Civil War
 * Irish Americans in the American Civil War
 * Italian Americans in the Civil War
 * | Jews in the Civil War

African American Soldiers in the Civil War
 * Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War
 * United States Colored Troops
 * Militia Act of 1862

Emancipation
 * Confiscation Acts
 * Confiscation Act of 1861
 * Confiscation Act of 1862
 * Emancipation Proclamation

Immigration and Citizenship During The Civil War
 * | Irish Immigration During the Civil War
 * | History of Immigration and Naturalization in the US
 * History of Chinese Americans
 * Italian Americans during the Civil War

Civil Unrest
 * New York City Draft Riots of 1863
 * Five Points, Manhattan

Other Resources

 * Homestead Act: Library of Congress
 * Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collections on Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints
 * U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Historical Library
 * Chinese American Exclusion/Inclusion: New York Historical Society
 * Harvard University Open Collections Program: Aspiration, Acculturation, and Impact, Immigration to the United States 1789-1930
 * Lincoln/Net: Southern Illinois University Libraries
 * Becoming American Under Fire by Christian G. Samito
 * A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, by James Ford Rhodes. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1917. Full text available on Wikisource
 * Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian and Civil Wars, by Dabney Herndon Maury. 2nd edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. Full text available on Wikisource

Basics on editing Wikipedia

 * Five pillars and Core content policies
 * Your first article
 * Help:Getting started
 * Cheatsheet for Wiki markup
 * Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
 * Citation hunt: Help find proper citations for missing references in Wikipedia articles
 * Wikidata main page
 * Wikidata in Brief, a one-page overview
 * The Wikidata Distributed Game: play to help improve Wikidata information!
 * Wikimedia Commons, where image, sound and video files are hosted
 * Wikimedia Commons category for images about the American Civil War
 * Wikisource, where public domain texts are hosted and transcribed
 * Teahouse, a friendly place to help new editors get started and to get your questions answered about editing Wikipedia

Citation tools

 * Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books
 * DOI Wikipedia reference generator
 * New York Times Wikipedia reference generator

Articles improved

 * Geary Act -- standardized and combined footnotes, updated broken links
 * Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War -- waded into the Talk page to chime in about some inappropriate merge proposals. Added information about African American medical officers, added a few footnotes

Attendees

 * Brock-brac (talk) 20:11, 22 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Lmroberts (talk) 20:33, 22 September 2017 (UTC)


 * 173.10.6.177 (talk) 20:35, 22 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Shel5136 (talk) 20:36, 22 September 2017 (UTC)


 * 123home123 (talk) 21:19, 22 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Uncommon fritillary (talk) 21:34, 22 September 2017 (UTC)