Civil War Era
A Nation Divided
This site chronicles many major events in the war and offers bulleted descriptions of each. It is great in helping to develop a unit plan or making sure you touch on important events. There are links to valuable maps and pictures that may be used in lessons as well. - B.C.http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/
The American Experience: Reconstruction, The Second Civil War
This site is a good source for the Reconstruction time period. It has many primary source documents, pictures, and timelines. This site also contains a teacher’s guide with lesson plans, and activities. - A.H.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/
Eric Burnett’s Civil War and Reconstruction site
This site is great because it presents a chronological order of events from the beginning of the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction. It has links to bring you to key battles, maps, political figures, generals, causes of the war, and timelines. - A.H.http://www.mrburnett.net/civilwar.html
Civil War and Reconstruction: Jensen's Guide to WWW Resources
This site provides a large amount of links to sites that deal with the Civil War and Reconstruction. At the top of the site there is an index of links. They have full text articles and newspapers from the era, and teaching aids. This is a great compilation of websites and documents. - A.H.http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/civwar.htm
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
This site includes an overview and timeline of events for the Civil War and Reconstruction. It also has primary source documents, which could be used to give the students a perspective on what was happening in the United States during the Civil War and Reconstruction. - A.H.http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/civi...
Documents of the Civil War
This site offers documents that pertain to the Civil War, such as Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address and the Gettysburg Address. There is also a section in this website that contains poems and songs that were relevant during this era. This site would be extremely useful for teaching, especially because it contains cultural aspects of the era. - S.C.http://www.geocities.com/civilwarstudy101/document...
Civil War Maps
This site is a good source of maps for the Civil War era to print and hand out to students. There are various types of maps to show which states were considered the North and the South, and other useful information. Detailed maps of various Civil War battles can be found on this page as well. The items presented on the website can be found in Civil War Maps: An Annotated List of Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress compiled by Richard W. Stephenson in 1989. - S.C.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cwmhtml/cwmhom...
Home of the American Civil War
This site lists different aspects of the Civil War in an organized fashion. Civil War biographies, battles, and other related items are all listed in separate categories. There is also a section that provides links to over fifty additional websites related to the Civil War. - S.C.http://www.civilwarhome.com/
Poetry and music of the War Between the States
This site gives you access to poems from both the Confederate and the Union sides. The site also includes music that was popular during the time for the North and the South. - S.C.http://home.earthlink.net/~poetry61-65/
American Civil War Collection at the Electronics Text Center
This website contains letters, diaries, and newspapers from the American Civil War. Each comes with background information on specific individuals involved. - S.C.http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/
Allison Williamson Diary
This website contains the journal of Alice Williamson, a 16-year-old rebel from Gallatin, Tennessee. Entries from February 1864 to September 1864 mention specific events that occurred during the American Civil War such as Atlanta's surrender to Sherman, but lack details concerning daily life. Civil War-specific vocabulary or names may be clicked on, allowing the reader to go to a webpage giving a more detailed explanation of the word/name. - S.C.http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/williamson/text.ht...
The U.S. Civil War Center
The site is excellent for teaching students how to surf the web when researching a topic. It has loads of information and links to information regarding the Civil War, but it also has guides on how to research the Civil War and how to evaluate the information one finds online. - D.G.http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/
American Civil War
This site provides a good overview of major individuals, battles, and other key aspects of the Civil War. It has well-developed biographies on the most important figures of the Civil War, along with several pictures of each individual. The section on the various battlefields is also well-developed including the significance and the occurrences of each battlefield, as well as maps of the battles. - J.W.http://www.americancivilwar.com
“The History of Jim Crow” (PBS)
This is a very helpful website for materials and/or information about the Civil Rights Movement for African-Americans. The site is full of links to lesson plans, timelines, images, essays, primary sources, etc. and is very easy to navigate. This site is strongly recommended to teachers who are looking for plans or ideas or who just want to learn some more information. The site’s interactive timeline is a useful guide that will help students learn the important names, dates, and events that occur throughout the course of the movement. The primary documents could inspire creative lesson plans and activities. - P.A.http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/history.htm
The American Civil War Home Page
This site contains a large supply of both primary and secondary sources concerning the Civil War. Resources are separated into easily searchable categories. Primary sources include political cartoons, journals, and historical records from both the Union and Confederate sources. - S.V.http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html
Tracy Osborn’s Reconstruction, Racism, The KKK, and The Confederate “Lost Cause”
Website contains a large number of primary documents tracing the Confederate experience during the reconstruction era. Substantial primary documents on African American experiences after the war, and important court records and congressional bills concerning the racism African Americans experienced. - S.V.http://www.teacheroz.com/reconstruction.htm
Historical and Genealogical Websites
This website goes through every state that was around during the time of the American Civil War and gives detailed information on archives from each state, the regiments that fought during the war and even excellent information from the Historical Societies within the states. This website would be a great tool to have the students work in different groups and have them represent a different state for projects. The information is compiled from Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. - S.G.http://www.nps.gov/frsp/archive.htm
