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An Annotated List of the
Most Valuable Online Resources on the Civil War
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Interviews with leading authorities
on the Civil War era.
James McPherson:
PRELUDE TO CIVIL WAR
Bleeding Kansas
http://www.kancoll.org/galbks.htm
Books, diaries, autobiographies, and letters documenting the
struggle over slavery in territorial Kansas.
John Brown’s Holy War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/index.html
The companion site to PBS’s American Experience broadcast
contains a timeline, maps, glossary, and historical overviews
on a variety of topics related to John Brown’s raid on Harpers
Ferry.
19th Century Documents
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/19th.htm
The full text of the Fugitive Slave Act, the Kansas-Nebraska
Act, and other important antebellum political documents.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin and
American Culture
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/
Texts, images, songs, 3-D objects, and film clips relating to
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Abraham Lincoln Online
http://www.netins.net/showcase/creative/lincoln.html
The 16th President’s speeches, writings, and images.
The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alrintr.html
This Library of Congress site provides a variety of visual images
to document the assassination of the nation’s 16th President.
Mr. Lincoln’s White House
http://mrlincolnswhitehouse.org
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.
Racial Satire and the Civil
War: Case Study--Abraham Lincoln
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/scartoons/cartoons.html
This site traces the development of racial caricature in American
political cartoons during the mid-19th century.
Rhetoric of Freedom
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/freedom.htm
Articles from The Atlantic magazine from the 1860s onward dealing
with Lincoln’s public speeches.
CIVIL WAR
Chronology of Emancipation
during the Civil War
http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/chronol.htm
A chronology listing important events in the history of emancipation
during the Civil War.
Civil War Knowledge Bank
http://www.bergen.org/civilwar/index2.html
Lesson plans and resources that allow teachers and students to
study: Economic Differences Between The North and South; Sectionalism
and Literature; Socioeconomic to Political Differences; Sectionalism
Resulting in a Breakdown of Law and Order; Significance of the
Election of 1860; Lincoln's Decision to Go to War; The Trial
of Robert E. Lee; and Changing Confederate Attitudes, From the
Female Perspective.
The Civil War Soldiers and
Sailors System
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html
This is a computerized database containing very basic facts about
servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War; a list
of regiments in both the Union and Confederate Armies; identifications
and descriptions of 384 significant battles of the war.
Civil War Women
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html
The Duke University Library has made Civil War era diaries available
online, which bring women’s wartime experience to life.
The Fight For Equal Rights:
Black Soldiers in the Civil War
http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/usct/home.html
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.
Letters from the Front
http://www.unc.edu/lib/mssinv/exhibits/civilwar/
Letters from soldiers on both sides of the Civil War describe
specific battles.
Poetry and Music of the War
Between the States
http://users.erols.com/kfraser/
A collection of songs and poems from supporters of the Union
and the Confederacy.
Selected Civil War Photographs
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html
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.
The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/imls/index.html
A collection of official documents, private correspondence, and
pamphlets that focuses on Confederate life behind the battlelines.
Time Line of the Civil War
http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/
An interactive, illustrated time line of the major political,
military, and social events that occurred during the Civil War.
African Americans and the
Civil War
African Americans in the Civil
War
http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/cw_news.htm
Newspaper articles from August 1862 to May 1865 that record the
African American experience during the Civil War.
Toward Racial Equality: Harper's
Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874."
http://blackhistory.harpweek.com
Articles, illustrations, and cartoons from Harper’s Weekly
dealing with slavery and emancipation from the late 1850s into
Reconstruction.
Historiography
Richard Jensen: Civil War Historiography
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/historiography/civilwar.htm
A succinct summary of the war’s causes; the two sides’
goals, strengths, weaknesses, and strategies; and the major battles.
Lesson Plans
Not Just a Man’s War:
Women in the American Civil War, 1861-65
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/manswar/
Classroom activities, focusing on women’s experience during
the Civil War, appropriate for students of a variety of ages
and ability levels that draw upon resources available on the
World Wide Web and upon primary source documents.
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