Additional Resources
Check out these additional resources to further explore the historical topic and teaching strategy for this session.
Content Resources
A Biography of America
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog11/index.html
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog12/index.html
On this site, you can view the Biography of
America video (or read the transcript) for Program 11: The Civil War and Program 12: Reconstruction, featuring historian Donald L. Miller. You can also access maps, listings of key events, and Web links on this topic.
A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tcrhtml/mreynoldsbibTitles1.html
This site explores the Civil War experience of Captain Tilton C. Reynolds, a member of the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and includes correspondence, photographs, and other materials dating between 1861 and 1865.
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/civilwar/ soldiers/ soldiers.html
This site provides detailed accounts from Civil War soldiers and links to other relevant Library of Congress Civil War resources.
Selected Civil War Photographs
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
With over 1000 photographs, this site contains images of soldiers before and after battle, along with portraits of Confederate and Union officers and enlisted men.
CivilWar@Smithsonian
http://www.civilwar.si.edu/home.html
This site contains an extensive collection of images and descriptions of Civil War artifacts, as well as a timeline and links to additional resources.
Mary Henry: Eyewitness to the Civil War in the City of Washington
http://siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/documents/ mary.htm
This site contains a young woman's diary entries that provide insight into the Civil War as it affected the Capital city.
Modules on Major Topics in American History: The Civil War
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module10/
In the Civil War module, you can access a brief overview of the war, primary source documents, learning tools, visual aids, and additional resources.
The Civil War
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/
On this companion site to The Civil War, a film by Ken Burns, you can view images of the war, maps of key battles, biographies, and civil war facts. There is also an "In the Classroom" section that provides lesson plans, discussion questions, and additional resources, including an annotated list of Web sites.
Teaching with Historic Places
http://www.cr.nps.gov/NR/twhp/civwar00.htm
This site provides 19 lesson plans on topics related to conditions in the Civil War for soldiers, nurses, eyewitnesses, and more.
The American Civil War Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html
This site contains an extensive list of resources related to the Civil War, including music, images, biographical information, essays, and primary source documents.
Letter from a Soldier in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/docs_archive/ docs_archive_Mass54.html
This site features a letter from a soldier in the renowned 54th Massachusetts Regiment that offers a personal view of the discrimination black soldiers faced during the Civil War.
Civil War Women
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html
This site provides links to primary sources such as diaries, letters, photographs, and prints related to women's experiences during the Civil War.
Coddington, Ronald S. Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Dyer, J. Franklin and Michael B. Chesson (editor). The Journal of a Civil War Surgeon. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1971.
Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1993.
Strategy Resources
The Learning Page
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/media.html
This site provides media analysis tools and lesson plans for use in the classroom.
America's First Look Into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views 1839-1862
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html
This site contains a collection of over 700 photographs taken between 1839-1862 that can browsed by subject index or searched by keyword.
NARA-ALIC-Digital Photography Collections
http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/photography.html
This site provides links to historical photography collections on topics such as women's suffrage, the American West, African Americans during World War II, the Great Depression, and many more.
Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_the_century/ home.html
This site houses photographs from the National Archives that span the twentieth century.
Images of American Political History
http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/_browse.htm
This site contains an extensive collection of images throughout American history from the 17th century through the 20th century and can be browsed by era or topic.
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
This site features links to American history images, primary sources, multimedia resources, teacher resources, an interactive timeline, virtual exhibitions, and much more.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/
On this site you can explore a thousand images related to the Atlantic Slave trade and the lives of slaves in the Americas.
Small Worlds: The Art of the Carte de Visite Main Gallery
http://www.photographymuseum.com/worlds.html
This site allows you to enlarge photographs from the 1860s and 1870s to get a closer look at the details, and features accompanying descriptions.