External Resources
Sesquicentennial Link
Civil War Centers
- Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar in VA
- The George Tyler Moore Civil War Center in WV
- Young-Sanders Center for the Study of the War Between the States in Louisiana
- Civil War Trust
- Civil War Center at Virginia Tech
- The American Civil War Museum
- George and Anne Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State
- George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War at Shepherd University
- US Army Heritage and Education Center
Historical Archives and Documents
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University
- Virginia Military Institute: VMI Archives
- Illinois in the Civil War
- Duke University: The Civil War: Women and the Homefront
- Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Reading Room
- AbrahamLincoln.org
- The Valley Project
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Documenting the American South
- Library of Congress: Frederick Douglass papers
- The Freedmen's Bureau
- H-CivWar
- Penn State Univerisity: PA’s newspapers from Civil War Era
- National Archives
- National Park Service Soldiers and Sailors System
- Library of Congress Civil War Photographs
- Center for Civil War Photography
- Library of Congress Photographs by Mathew Brady
- Clara Barton & the Red Cross
- Provides information on those who served from Massachusetts
- Center for Archival Collection in Bowling Green, Ohio
Historical Museums & Locations
- Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
- Atlanta History Center
- Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History
- Laurel Hill, J.E.B. Birthplace
- U.S. National Parks Service
- Pamplin Park
- US Army Heritage and Education Center
- Michigan State University Civil War Collection
- Smyrna, Georgia, Civil War Collection
- Fort Moultrie
- McDuffie Museum (great collection of period documents - click here.)
Resources for Educators
- Civil War educational links
- Smithsonian Home Page
- Smithsonian Lesson Plans
- Civil War links for Teachers
- Provides a bibliography of suggested readings
- Civil War Lesson Plans and Additional Links
- America's Story from America's Library
- NPS Focus Group Report: African American Attitudes
- African American Troops in the Civil War
- A Soldier's Civil War Diary
- "The Civil War in America" Special LOC Exhibit
- Clara Barton
- Interactive map/timeline
- History Simulation Tools for Teachers