CivilWarParticipationSessionMaterialsandResources


 * Professor Silber's Session Materials: **

Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War Digital archive with letters, newspapers and other documents pertaining to two communities – one in Pennsylvania and one in Virginia – during the Civil War []
 * Website Resources **

Blue and Gray for Boys and Girls [] A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln (an online exhibition) []

Toward Racial Equality: Harper’s Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874 []

The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln []

A Nation Divided: The US Civil War 1861-1865 []

Not Just a Man’s War: Women in the American Civil War 1861-1865 []

The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors’ System [] A computerized data base with basic facts on Union and Confederate servicemen. Users can look up soldiers by name; state; regiment; ethnicity

The National Park Service will soon be launching a Civil War Sesquicentennial website and it will have a section for teachers. []

Civil War at Smithsonian [] This site is produced by the National Portrait Gallery and is dedicated to examining the Civil War through the Smithsonian Institution's extensive and manifold collections. Since the war itself, 1861–1865, the institution has been actively collecting, preserving, and remembering America’s most profound national experience. Now through the World Wide Web, this site will significantly expand that mission, giving the public increased access to Smithsonian collections and archives.

Historical Scene Investigation: Children in the Civil War [] The Historical Scene Investigation Project (HSI) provides a strong pedagogical mechanism for bringing primary sources into social studies classrooms. This site pairs advantage of rich historical documents online with work that closely resembles that of a real historian. The site works to engage students and teachers in investigations of a variety of historical topics.

“New Interpretations of the Civil War.” History Now American History Online. December 2010. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. [] The “Interactive History” component provides images of selected Civil War letters. Along with transcripts this site provides audio narrations of the letters along with a lens that changes the script writing into type making it easier to read.

Lowell and the Civil War [] A collection of images on the Civil War and Lowell. It includes individuals’ photographs, memorials, and historic sites.