The Civil War... 150 Years Later

 

 

Burnside Bridge, Gettysburg, PA    -Erica Decker



     Many of us are really excited about our deepened knowledge of the Civil War. This is the 150 year anniversary and there are many amazing resources available for teachers. 



    The House Divided Project, is by far, one of the most amazing resources available. Another really neat thing that is happening is a real-time Civil War Reenactment.  This is happening in conjuction with the House Divided Project through the Washington Post.  They are using primary source documents from both the Union and the Confederacy. Much like Twhistory, The Post is tweeting the events (and quoting Union and Confederate Leaders) of the Civil War as they occured150 years ago.  Sign up for Twitter today and follow the list @CivilWarWP.

 

Civil War Links and Resources:



Taken at Gettysburg By Erica Decker 



Civil War Life/Death


• Montgomery Letter (Confederate Soldier)
• "The Last Words" (Folder includes pieces to put it back together in case it doesn't download correctly)

Confederate and Union Haversacks

• Dialogue Idea - Williamsburg Packet

National Archives

• Amazing Primary Source Document Website
• Comparing Civil War Recruitment Posters
• Weighing the Effects of Freedman's Bureau using Primary Sources
• Sort Primary Sources that Show Events Simultaneous to Civil War (Highly Interesting)
• The Civil War As Photographed By Mathew Brady Lesson Plan
• Fugitive from Labor Cases Lesson Plan
• Black Soldiers in the Civil War and their Fight For Rights Lesson Plan

 Matthew Pinsker Professor/Historian/Author

•  House Divided Civil War Project (Amazing)
• CSPAN Book Interview Matthew Pinsker - Lincoln's Sanctuary
• Citizens Arise: Matthew Pinsker at Drake University (Vimeo)
• Lincoln's Cottage Videos (youtube channel)
• Erica's Pictures from Lincoln's Cottage (Flag too, before we realized no pictures)
• Underground Railroad Digital Classroom

From lincolncottage.org

Gilder Lehrman

• High Quality American History Teaching and Learning Resources
• Free Civil War Lectures and Music (iTunesU)
• 150 Civil War Articles, Lessons, Podcasts, Exhibitions
• Lincoln Digital Article

• Lincoln Douglass Online Exhibition 
• Civil War Letters "I Take Up My Pen" Exhibition
• Abolition of Slavery Online Exhibition
• Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation Online Exhibition

Library of Congress:

• The Last Full Measure: Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection
• With Malice Toward None Exhibition
• The Gettysburg Address Exhibition
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
• Brady Handy Collection
• First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
• History of the American West 1860-1920
• Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books From Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin ca. 1820-1910
• Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas B. Harned Walt Whitman Collection
• Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters 1862-1912
• Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and the Leaves of Grass : Wound Dresser
• The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region ca. 1600-1925
• The Church in the Southern Black Community 1780-1925
• The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books
• The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
• Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
• Lincoln and the Law
• The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
• The Gettysburg Address
• With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition
• A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers
• Band Music in the Civil War Era
• Civil War Maps
• Civil War Photographs
• Civil War Sheet Music
• Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society
• Hotchkiss Map Collection Confederate Army Maps
• Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Portraits
• Selected Civil War Photographs
• Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft 1861-1865
• African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A .P. Murray Collection 1818-1907
• African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives From the Federal Writers Project 1936-1938
• From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909
• The African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society
• The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
• The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
• Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories

Places We Visited and Resources We Can Share





Gettysburg, PA  by Erica Decker



Gettysburg

•  Gettysburg Pictures 1 of 5
• Gettysburg Pictures 2 of 5
•  Gettysburg Pictures 3 of 5
• Gettysburg Pictures 4 of 5
• Gettysburg Pictures 5 of 5

• Tredgar

• Antietam

• Grant's Cabin: City Point

• Ford's Theater

• Harper's Ferry

• Pamplin Park

• Confederate White House

• Fredrick Douglass Home

• Petersburg

City Point, Virginia - Grant (center) and some advisors, 1863

City Point, Virginia - Matthew Pinsker, Grant Cottrell, John MacNamara, 2011



Boston and Williamsburg Trip Presentations

TOPICS:

PILGRIMS

WAMPANOAG / AMERICAN INDIANS

This is a link to a good video if you have a streaming.discoveryeducation.com:

Contact and Conflict (video from American Indian Perspective, Great to talk about Steroetype)

LOYALIST INSTITUTE

A Civil War Picture Recreation

City Point, Virginia - Grant (center) and some advisors, 1863

City Point, Virginia - Matthew Pinsker, Grant Cottrell, John MacNamara, 2011