Civil War and Reconstruction

1850-1877


Slavery and The Underground Railroad
Harriet: The Moses of Her People
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/harriet/harriet.html
The Underground Railroad
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/
Footsteps to Freedom: Retracing the Underground Railroad
http://rims.k12.ca.us/ugr/
Slave Narratives
Lesson Plan for grades 3-5 from EDSITEment
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=364
Families in Bondage
Lesson Plan for grades 9-12 from EDSITEment
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=280
African American Women: The Lives of Slaves
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
Steel Away: Songs from the Underground Railroad
http://www.appleseedrec.com/underground/sounds.html
The Civil War
The American Civil War Home Page
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
American Civil War.com
http://www.americancivilwar.com/
A Nation Divided
http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/
A Biography of America: The Civil War
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog11/index.html
We Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Lesson Plan for grades 3-5 from EDSITEment
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=246
Eve of the Civil War: Factory v. Plantation in the North and South
Lesson Plan for grades 6-8 from EDSITEment
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=289
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Teacher Cyber Guide based on the book by Russell Freedman
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/linc/linctg.html
Lincoln Goes to War
Lesson Plan for grades 8-12 from EDSITEment
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=263
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
The Battle of Bunker Hill
http://www.masshist.org/bh/index.html
The Battle of Bull Run
Teacher Cyber Guide
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/bull/bulltg.html
Drummer Boy of Shiloh
Teacher Cyber Guide
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/drum/drumtg.html
Choices and Commitments: The Soldiers at Gettysburg
Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plan for Grades 5 and up
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/44gettys/44gettys.htm
Black Soldiers in the Civil War
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/blacks_in_civil_war/
blacks_in_civil_war.html
Civil War Women
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html
Emma Spaulding Bryant Letters
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/bryant/
The American Civil War: Biographies, Letters, and Publications
http://www.genealogy.org/~ajmorris/us/us.htm
Civil War Memorabilia at the Smithsonian
http://civilwar.si.edu/collections.html
Civil War Artillery
http://www.cwartillery.org/artillery.html
What do You See?
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/loc/hinesday.html
Selected Civil War Photographs
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
Civil War and Reconstruction
Documents from the National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/american_originals/civilwar.html
Images of the American West and Civil War
http://www.treasurenet.com/images/
Civil War Music
Lists songs by era
http://www.contemplator.com/america/index.html
Reconstruction
A Biography of America: Reconstruction
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog12/index.html
Mapping the Changes (Activity)
Comparing life the West before and after the Civil War
http://www.eduplace.com/activity/mapping.html
Free African Americans' Life Stories
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/seminar/unit6/index.html
Freedman and Southern Society Project
http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/home.html
Web Quests
The American Civil War 
Recommended for upper grades
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/education/projects/webquests/
civilwar/webthecivir.htm
When Johnny Went Marching Off... A Civil War Documentation Team
Activity
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/johnny_marching/index.html
Not Just a Man's War: Women in the American Civil War 1861-65
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/manswar/index.htm


 



Please send comments, questions, suggestions, or any broken links to
John David Shanks,
Gifted Education Teacher, Greene County Schools