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An Annotated List of the Most Valuable
Online Resources on the Coming of the Civil War
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PRELUDE
TO CIVIL WAR
- Bleeding
Kansas
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/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.
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