Civil War Websites
Topic 6
Links Updated 2.1.22
Civil War Activities
Civil War Jeopardy (https://www.quia.com/cb/183337.html)
Civil War Review Game: Rags to Riches (https://www.quia.com/rr/237589.html)
Flight to Freedom: Game (www.mission-us.org)
*Map: Test yourself on the states (http://mrnussbaum.com/cwchallenge/)
Underground Railroad Interactive (http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/)
Civil War Information
Abraham Lincoln (History Channel)
Andersonville: Confederate POW Camp (https://www.history.com/news/andersonville-150-years-ago)
Biographies of Famous Americans (http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/biographies/)
Civil War By the Numbers (PBS)
Deaths: Who, What, Why: How many soldiers died in the US Civil War? (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17604991)
John Brown's Holy War (PBS)
Juneteenth by The Numbers (https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/18/us/btn-juneteenth/index.html)
Map of 1860 Election (https://www.270towin.com/1860_Election/interactive_map)
Map of Secession (https://www.nationalgeographic.org/photo/union-confederacy/)
Maps That Explain the Civil War & Reconstruction (https://www.vox.com/2015/4/14/8396477/maps-explain-civil-war)
Medicine in the Civil War (https://www.cprcertified.com/medicine-in-the-american-civil-war)
Medicine: Clara Barton & Nursing in the Civil War (https://www.rosenfeldinjurylawyers.com/historical-nurses-all-about-clara-barton.html)
Presidents who owned slaves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_who_owned_slaves)
Slave Narratives (http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/intro.html)
Slave and Free States Map 1789-1861 (upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/US_Slave_Free_1789-1861.gif)
Slave and Free States Map 1820-1890 with explanations (http://etc.usf.edu/maps/galleries/us/complete/index.php)
Slavery: Historical Overview of African Americans' Legal Rights (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/legal/history.html)
Slavery: Voices from the Days of Slavery Interviews (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/)
Slavery: Making of America Timeline (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1739.html)
Slavery: Music (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/feature.html)
Slavery: Info & Statistics (https://eh.net/encyclopedia/slavery-in-the-united-states/)
Slavery: Slide Show (http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/slideshows/plantation_slides.htm)
Slavery: Timeline of the History of Slavery in America (http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/slavery.html)
Slavery: Underground Railroad Interactive (Scholastic)
Timeline: African Americans in the Civil War (PBS)
Timeline: African American Voting Rights (https://www.aclu.org/timeline-history-voting-rights-act)
Timeline: Robert E Lee (PBS)
Timeline: Ulysses S Grant (PBS)
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Entire Book Online (http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/uncletom/uthp.html)
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Stowe's Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/uncletom/key/kyhp.html)
Zachary Taylor: American Presidents (History Channel)
Civil War Pictures
Civil War Photography Then & Now (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2015/jun/22/american-civil-war-photography-interactive)
Robert E Lee Photo Gallery (PBS)
Segregation Pictures (https://www.frishphoto.com)
Slavery: Pictures showing the history of slavery in the U.S. (History Channel)
Slavery Pictures (https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/082_slav2.html)
Slavery Pictures (http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/enslavement/text1/photosenslaved.pdf)
Slavery Pictures: Getty Images
Ulysses S Grant Photo Gallery (PBS)
Civil War Primary Sources
19th Century (1800-1899) Primary Sources: Yale Law School (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/19th.asp
Abolitionist Movement (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html)
Confederacy Lee's Letters (PBS)
Frederick Douglass' Escape from Slavery (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Frederick Douglass' Speech 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?' (PBS)
Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3837/3837-h/3837-h.htm)
Lincoln's Last Speech (http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/last.htm)
Slavery 12 Years A Slave online book (http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/northup/northup.html)
Slavery American Slavery as It Is by Theodore Weld online book (http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/amslavhp.html)
Slavery A Slave's Life (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Slavery Life on a Southern Plantation (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Slavery Return of a Fugitive Slave 1854 (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Slave Auction 1859 (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Slavery (PBS)
Secession Ordinances: Battlefield Trust (https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states)
South Carolina's Declaration of Secession (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp)
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Surrender Documents (PBS)
Civil War Videos
Abolitionists Part 1 (YouTube)
Abolitionists Part 2 (YouTube)
Abolitionists Part 3 (YouTube)
Abraham Lincoln Disney Presidents (YouTube)
Abraham Lincoln: Every Known Photo (YouTube)
Abraham Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address (YouTube)
Abraham Lincoln Mini Bio (YouTube)
Abraham and Mary Lincoln: American Experience (PBS)
Abraham Lincoln "Now!" scene (YouTube)
Anaconda Plan NBC (YouTube)
Andersonville (YouTube)
Battle of Gettysburg Smithsonian (YouTube)
Battle of Shiloh (History Channel)
Battle of Vicksburg (History Channel)
Confederate Monuments History Channel (YouTube)
Election of 1860 and the Road to Disunion: Crash Course US History (YouTube)
Emancipation Proclamation (History Channel)
Fort Sumter and the Path to the Civil War (History Channel)
Gettysburg Address (History Channel)
Gettysburg Address Read by Johnny Cash (YouTube)
Grant & Sherman Lead the Union (History Channel)
James Buchanan's Presidency (History Channel)
James Buchanan: Presidential Minute (YouTube)
Jefferson Davis by History Channel (YouTube)
Jefferson Davis Bio (YouTube)
John Brown's Body Lies Rotting In The Grave Song (YouTube)
Lee Bio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AVMoo_PT40)
Lee (History Channel)
Lee's Farewell Address (YouTube)
Massachusetts 54th Infantry (History Channel)
*Medicine in the Civil War (YouTube)
Missouri Compromise (YouTube)
Mr. Jordan's Videos (former AP at Granada whose ancestors were slaves)
North: Economic Developments (education-portal.com)
Sherman (History Channel)
Slavery: 3 Slave Rebellions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyFSW6oACNo)
Slavery: Abolitionist Movement (History Channel)
Slavery: American Slavery As It Is book of first-hand accounts about slavery (PBS)
Slavery: Black Codes (History Channel)
*Slavery: Slave Narratives PG-13 (YouTube)
Slavery: Underground Railroad & Harriet Tubman (YouTube)
Slavery: Wade in the Water Spiritual with Info (YouTube)
Surrender at Appomattox (YouTube)
Ulysses S Grant's Road to Success (YouTube)
Women in the Civil War History Channel (YouTube)
CURRENT EVENTS
3.26.21 Robert E Lee High School Board Meeting on Renaming (CNN)
4.21.21 Harriet Tubman's Father's Home Discovered (NBC)
Civil War Activities
Civil War Jeopardy (https://www.quia.com/cb/183337.html)
Civil War Review Game: Rags to Riches (https://www.quia.com/rr/237589.html)
Flight to Freedom: Game (www.mission-us.org)
*Map: Test yourself on the states (http://mrnussbaum.com/cwchallenge/)
Underground Railroad Interactive (http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/)
Civil War Information
Abraham Lincoln (History Channel)
Andersonville: Confederate POW Camp (https://www.history.com/news/andersonville-150-years-ago)
Biographies of Famous Americans (http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/biographies/)
Civil War By the Numbers (PBS)
Deaths: Who, What, Why: How many soldiers died in the US Civil War? (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17604991)
John Brown's Holy War (PBS)
Juneteenth by The Numbers (https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/18/us/btn-juneteenth/index.html)
Map of 1860 Election (https://www.270towin.com/1860_Election/interactive_map)
Map of Secession (https://www.nationalgeographic.org/photo/union-confederacy/)
Maps That Explain the Civil War & Reconstruction (https://www.vox.com/2015/4/14/8396477/maps-explain-civil-war)
Medicine in the Civil War (https://www.cprcertified.com/medicine-in-the-american-civil-war)
Medicine: Clara Barton & Nursing in the Civil War (https://www.rosenfeldinjurylawyers.com/historical-nurses-all-about-clara-barton.html)
Presidents who owned slaves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_who_owned_slaves)
Slave Narratives (http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/intro.html)
Slave and Free States Map 1789-1861 (upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/US_Slave_Free_1789-1861.gif)
Slave and Free States Map 1820-1890 with explanations (http://etc.usf.edu/maps/galleries/us/complete/index.php)
Slavery: Historical Overview of African Americans' Legal Rights (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/legal/history.html)
Slavery: Voices from the Days of Slavery Interviews (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/)
Slavery: Making of America Timeline (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1739.html)
Slavery: Music (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/feature.html)
Slavery: Info & Statistics (https://eh.net/encyclopedia/slavery-in-the-united-states/)
Slavery: Slide Show (http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/slideshows/plantation_slides.htm)
Slavery: Timeline of the History of Slavery in America (http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/slavery.html)
Slavery: Underground Railroad Interactive (Scholastic)
Timeline: African Americans in the Civil War (PBS)
Timeline: African American Voting Rights (https://www.aclu.org/timeline-history-voting-rights-act)
Timeline: Robert E Lee (PBS)
Timeline: Ulysses S Grant (PBS)
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Entire Book Online (http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/uncletom/uthp.html)
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Stowe's Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/uncletom/key/kyhp.html)
Zachary Taylor: American Presidents (History Channel)
Civil War Pictures
Civil War Photography Then & Now (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2015/jun/22/american-civil-war-photography-interactive)
Robert E Lee Photo Gallery (PBS)
Segregation Pictures (https://www.frishphoto.com)
Slavery: Pictures showing the history of slavery in the U.S. (History Channel)
Slavery Pictures (https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/082_slav2.html)
Slavery Pictures (http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/enslavement/text1/photosenslaved.pdf)
Slavery Pictures: Getty Images
Ulysses S Grant Photo Gallery (PBS)
Civil War Primary Sources
19th Century (1800-1899) Primary Sources: Yale Law School (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/19th.asp
Abolitionist Movement (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html)
Confederacy Lee's Letters (PBS)
Frederick Douglass' Escape from Slavery (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Frederick Douglass' Speech 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?' (PBS)
Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3837/3837-h/3837-h.htm)
Lincoln's Last Speech (http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/last.htm)
Slavery 12 Years A Slave online book (http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/northup/northup.html)
Slavery American Slavery as It Is by Theodore Weld online book (http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/amslavhp.html)
Slavery A Slave's Life (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Slavery Life on a Southern Plantation (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Slavery Return of a Fugitive Slave 1854 (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Slave Auction 1859 (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Slavery (PBS)
Secession Ordinances: Battlefield Trust (https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states)
South Carolina's Declaration of Secession (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp)
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Surrender Documents (PBS)
Civil War Videos
Abolitionists Part 1 (YouTube)
Abolitionists Part 2 (YouTube)
Abolitionists Part 3 (YouTube)
Abraham Lincoln Disney Presidents (YouTube)
Abraham Lincoln: Every Known Photo (YouTube)
Abraham Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address (YouTube)
Abraham Lincoln Mini Bio (YouTube)
Abraham and Mary Lincoln: American Experience (PBS)
Abraham Lincoln "Now!" scene (YouTube)
Anaconda Plan NBC (YouTube)
Andersonville (YouTube)
Battle of Gettysburg Smithsonian (YouTube)
Battle of Shiloh (History Channel)
Battle of Vicksburg (History Channel)
Confederate Monuments History Channel (YouTube)
Election of 1860 and the Road to Disunion: Crash Course US History (YouTube)
Emancipation Proclamation (History Channel)
Fort Sumter and the Path to the Civil War (History Channel)
Gettysburg Address (History Channel)
Gettysburg Address Read by Johnny Cash (YouTube)
Grant & Sherman Lead the Union (History Channel)
James Buchanan's Presidency (History Channel)
James Buchanan: Presidential Minute (YouTube)
Jefferson Davis by History Channel (YouTube)
Jefferson Davis Bio (YouTube)
John Brown's Body Lies Rotting In The Grave Song (YouTube)
Lee Bio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AVMoo_PT40)
Lee (History Channel)
Lee's Farewell Address (YouTube)
Massachusetts 54th Infantry (History Channel)
*Medicine in the Civil War (YouTube)
Missouri Compromise (YouTube)
Mr. Jordan's Videos (former AP at Granada whose ancestors were slaves)
North: Economic Developments (education-portal.com)
Sherman (History Channel)
Slavery: 3 Slave Rebellions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyFSW6oACNo)
Slavery: Abolitionist Movement (History Channel)
Slavery: American Slavery As It Is book of first-hand accounts about slavery (PBS)
Slavery: Black Codes (History Channel)
*Slavery: Slave Narratives PG-13 (YouTube)
Slavery: Underground Railroad & Harriet Tubman (YouTube)
Slavery: Wade in the Water Spiritual with Info (YouTube)
Surrender at Appomattox (YouTube)
Ulysses S Grant's Road to Success (YouTube)
Women in the Civil War History Channel (YouTube)
CURRENT EVENTS
3.26.21 Robert E Lee High School Board Meeting on Renaming (CNN)
4.21.21 Harriet Tubman's Father's Home Discovered (NBC)