Websites
Prelude to Civil War
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Bleeding Kansas
Books, diaries, autobiographies, and letters documenting the
struggle over slavery in territorial Kansas.
- John
Brown’s Holy War
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
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
Texts, images, songs, 3-D objects, and film clips relating to
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Abraham Lincoln
Timeline of Lincoln’s Life
Civil War
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Chronology of Emancipation during the Civil War
A chronology listing important events in the history of emancipation
during the Civil War.
- Civil War
Knowledge Bank
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
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.
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Civil War Women
The Duke University Library has made Civil War era diaries available
online, which bring women’s wartime experience to life.
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The Fight For Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
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.
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Letters from the Front
Letters from soldiers on both sides of the Civil War describe
specific battles.
- Poetry and Music of
the War Between the States
A collection of songs and poems from supporters of the Union and the
Confederacy.
- Selected
Civil War Photographs
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
A collection of official documents, private correspondence, and
pamphlets that focuses on Confederate life behind the battlelines.
- Time Line of the
Civil War
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
Historiography
Other history websites
