Digital History

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		Display Information Recommended Websites NOTE: Each link opens in a new window; close that window to return to this page. United States Civil War Center at LSU Digital History ID 4237 The mission of the United States Civil War Center is to promote interdisciplinary study of the American Civil War. It was founded in 1993 by novelist David Madden, Professor of English at Louisiana State University, and is supported in part by a donation from the late Frank Magill, founder of Salem Press. http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/ Mr. Lincoln’s White House Digital History ID 4238 This site profiles six family members, 16 Cabinet officers and Vice Presidents, 21 Generals, 17 members of Congress, 18 staff members, and over two dozen other visitors. http://mrlincolnswhitehouse.org Civil War Women Digital History ID 4239 The Duke University Library has made Civil War era diaries available online, which bring women’s wartime experience to life. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html Black Soldiers in the Civil War Digital History ID 4240 This National Archives site uses original documents to describe the struggles of black soldiers to defeat slavery and to win equal rights within the Union Army. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/index.html Selected Civil War Photographs Digital History ID 4241 This collection of over a thousand photographs from the Library of Congress includes military personnel, preparations for battle, battle after-effects, portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, politicians, cultural figures, and a selection of enlisted men. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html