Travelogs 4/2011: Revisiting the American Civil War

Each issue of Spotlight includes an extra booklet called Travelogs. The focus is on a specific destination such as a single event, a museum, or a special district in a city, usually from somewhere around the English-speaking world.

The Travelogs booklet is like a travel diary. This makes it perfect to enjoy at home on the sofa, but it can just as well be used to plan a trip. And because we always like to include language-learning material in our products, the back page of the booklet has a list of useful vocabulary from the text.

Travelogs 4/2011 recalls the US Civil War, which began 150 years ago this month. We visit places in the state of Maryland where important battles took place. When the Civil War started, Maryland was a slave-owning state. Many Marylanders wanted to join the slave-owning South, yet the state stayed in the Union and fought with the North.