Civil War

Books - 973.7

Encyclopedias -

Web Sites - try Google -
(use quotation marks around the person's name-ie., "Sally Tompkins")

• American Civil War Biographies, Maps and Timeline. Casualties, Colored troop information and state battle maps
• Civil War@Smithsonian Virtual exhibit produced by the National Portrait Gallery and dedicated to examining the Civil War through the Smithsonian Institution's extensive and historic collection
• Civil War Cartoons (American Studies, UVa)
• Civil War Homepage extensive set of links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War
  • including Biographies
• Civil War Photographs Library of Congress American Memory Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/orientation/keywords/civilwar.html
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors
  • including Afican Americans
• The History Place: the Civil War
• Home of the American Civil War
  • including Biographies
• The United States Civil War
• United States Civil War Center a very thorough listing of Civil War information available on internet
• The War Of Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies - actual written log of entries - searchable by word or name - equivalent to 70 volumes

Biographies/Information

• 54th Massachusetts Infantry
• Dred Scott Case
• Presidents and politicians
• Soldiers and generals
• Ulysses S. Grant PBS interactive
• US Civil War Generals
• Women

42Explore - Civil War - thorough list of links and lesson plans

Civil War Revisited (webquest) Your classroom has been selected for a space mission that lasts for 2 months. Upon your return to the United States, however, you find a very different country from the one you left. You trace the roots of the change back to 1865 and determine that history has been altered, and that the South has emerged victorious in the Civil War.