Cold Mountain | Topics for Further Study

Choose one of the themes discussed in the fiction section and write a poem or a short story that explores that theme in a different way.

Read Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage and prepare a PowerPoint presentation comparing and contrasting each main character’s view on the social and political aspects of the war and their participation in it.

Read Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: A Narrative and/or watch Ken Burns PBS mini-series on the Civil War and conduct imaginary interviews with some of the people presented in the book/film on their experiences during the...

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