As of 5/2/02
As of 5/2/02
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1. To learn about your topic, first start with an encyclopedia or your textbook.
Link to online encyclopedias on the "Tools For Everybody" page.
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2. Next try your topic in the ICONN database on the "Tools For Everybody" page.
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3. Try the sites below before "surfing" on your own.
Clara Barton / American Red Cross
American Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org/museum/
Civil War Nurses
http://www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarnurses.htm
Medicine
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
http://www.civilwarmed.org/exhibits.cfm
Civil War Medicine From Civil War Home
http://www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarmedicineintro.htm
Civil War Battlefield Medicine From EHistory
http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/features/medicine/cwsurgeon/index.cfm
University of Toledo - Civil War Medicine
http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/quackery/quack8.html
National Museum of Health and Medicine
http://www.natmedmuse.afip.org/exhibits/nationswounds/index.html
General Civil War Info.
America's Library - Civil War
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/1860-1865
New York Times Historical Newspapers
http://www.nyt.ulib.org/read.cgi?type=contents
Learner.org - Civil War
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog11/index.html
General Civil War Battles
Civil War Sites Advisory Commission -
Battlefield Summaries
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/tvii.htm#sums
Manassas National Battlefield
http://www.nps.gov/mana/battlefield_history/bhistory.htm
Antietam
http://www.antietam.com/antietam/
http://www.civilwarhome.com/antietamdescription.htm
Shiloh
http://www2.una.edu/history/shiloh.htm
http://www.civilwarhome.com/shilohdescription.htm
Gettysburg
Gettysburg National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/gett/getttour/main-ms.htm
The Gettysburg Address
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/
Voices of Battle at Gettysburg
http://www.nps.gov/gett/getttour/voices.htm
Civil War Soldier (from Gettysburg)
http://www.nps.gov/gett/soldierlife/soldiers.htm
Flag History
Infoplease Almanac-Confederate Flag History
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/confederate1.html
U.S. Embassy Stockholm - U.S. Flag History
http://www.usis.usemb.se/usflag/
Missouri Compromise
Africans in America - PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
Missouri Compromise Map - 1820 (requires
Shockwave)
http://www.uoregon.edu/~atlas/america/interactive/map19.html
NOVA - In The Time Of The Lincolns
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/politics/es_shift.html
Compromise of 1850
John Calhoun's Speech Against The Compromise
of 1850
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar18.html
Africans in America - PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
Struggles Over Slavery: The Compromise
of 1850
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/treasuresofcongress/page_11.html#
Compromise of 1850 Map (requires Shockwave)
http://www.uoregon.edu/~atlas/america/interactive/map20.html
Compromise of 1850-Map
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/tindall/timelinf/comp1850.htm
Compromise of 1850-Texas Online
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/nbc2.html
Compromise of 1850
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm043.html
NOVA - In The Time Of The Lincolns
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/politics/es_shift.html
Missouri Compromise
http://www.africana.com/Utilities/Content.html?&../cgi-bin/banner.pl?banner=Education&../Articles/tt_362.htm
Henry Clay
Abraham Lincoln's Eulogy on
Henry Clay
http://speaker.house.gov/library/texts/lincoln/clay.asp
Henry Clay Estate - Ashland
http://www.henryclay.org/index.htm
John C. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun
http://sciway3.net/2001/john-c-calhoun/Man.htm
Use the "Tools For Everybody" Page
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford
http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture (Click
on Interpret Mode)
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/sitemap.html
Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site
http://www.uncletomscabin.org/history.htm
Harriet Tubman / Underground Railroad
Aboard the Underground Railroad
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/ugrrhome.htm
African-American Odyssey-Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
Africans in America - PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
African-American Journey from World Book
http://www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/index.html
Underground Railroad - National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j1.html
Frederick Douglass
Africans in America-Frederick Douglass
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html
American Visionaries - Frederick Douglass
http://www.cr.nps.gov/csd/exhibits/douglass/
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
-Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln Exhibit
http://www.gliah.uh.edu/exhibits/douglass_exhibit/index.html
John Brown
John Brown - Award Winning Student Thinkquest
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/john_brown.htm
Harper's Ferry
http://www.nps.gov/hafe/home.htm
American Experience-John Brown's Holy War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/index.html
John Brown - Underground Railroad
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/pa2.htm
William Lloyd Garrison
Copy of "The Liberator"
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam007.html
William Lloyd Garrison
http://www.nps.gov/boaf/garris~1.htm
Africans in America - William Lloyd Garrison
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1561.html
William Lloyd Garrison House
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/ma2.htm
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 (actual document)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/kanneb.htm
Kansas-Nebraska Act - Award Winning Student
Thinkquest
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/kansas-nebraska_act.htm
Today In History - Kansas
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan29.html
Africans in America - Kansas-Nebraska Act and
Bleeding Kansas
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4narr4.html
African-American Journey from World Book
http://www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/index.html
NOVA - In The Time Of The Lincolns
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/politics/es_shift.html
Kansas-Nebraska Act (map-requires Shockwave)
http://www.uoregon.edu/~atlas/america/interactive/map21.html
Dred Scott
Dred Scott
http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/
Dred Scott Decision
http://www.nps.gov/jeff/ocv-dscottd.htm
Africans in America - PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4narr4.html
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincoln Douglas Debates
http://www.lincoln-douglas.org/
Lincoln & Lincoln- Douglas Debates
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/biography7.html
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/debates.html
Abraham Lincoln
Essays on Lincoln's Life
http://www.nps.gov/liho/essays.htm
Ford's Theatre National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/foth/index2.htm
Abraham Lincoln
http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/Courses/AL/AL_In_Brief.htm
Life of Lincoln
http://www.nps.gov/liho/life/life.htm
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
-Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln Exhibit
http://www.gliah.uh.edu/
NOVA -The Time Of The Lincolns
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis Chronology
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pjdavis/chron.htm#youth
Use "Student Resource Center" and "Grolier Online" on "For Everybody" page
Ulysses S. Grant
Civil War Generals
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/generals.html
Ulysses S. Grant
http://www.americanpresident.org/kotrain/courses/USG/USG_In_Brief.htm
Ulysses S. Grant - PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/index.html
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee Birthplace
http://www.stratfordhall.org/index.htm
Civil War Generals
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/generals.html
Stonewall Jackson
Civil War Generals
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/generals.html
Stonewall Jackson
http://www.vmi.edu/archives/jackson/jackson.html
Slavery History
How Slavery Grew Along The
Savannah River Valley Prior To The Civil War
http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/beneathweb/ch14.htm
Status of Slavery in The 13 Original States
(map-requires Shockwave)
http://www.uoregon.edu/~atlas/america/interactive/map18.html
Spread of Slavery In the South 1790-1860
(map-requires Shockwave)
http://www.uoregon.edu/~atlas/america/interactive/map17.html
Slave Crops In the South (map)
http://www.uoregon.edu/~atlas/america/static/map16.html
Slavery and Religion in America-Timeline
http://www.ipl.org/ref/timeline/
African-American Odyssey-Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
Africans in America - PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
African-American Journey from World Book
http://www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/index.html
Slavery in New England - Christian Science
Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1997/10/29/feat/feat.1.html
Civil War and Reconstruction (also
African-Americans)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/civilwar.html
Slavery & Freedom from NOVA - In TheTime
Of The Lincolns
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/slavery/index.html
Union Strategy in the West
Military Strategy
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/misc/civilwar/civilwar.htm
Vicksburg
http://www.nps.gov/vick/vcmpgn/vcmpgn.htm
Anaconda Plan - Civil War Military Strategy
http://www.mariner.org/monitor/02_navalst/anaconda_plan.html
Stages of the Civil War
http://bioinfo.clemson.edu/aged/dl/aged480/jennifer/stage.htm
Learner.org - Civil War (Scroll down to the
Geography of the War)
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog11/transcript/page02.html
Resources
Military History, 1861 (scroll to section 192
"The Opponents")
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/AMH-09.htm
Women in the Civil War
Southern Women and the Civil War
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/hearts/
Women Soldiers in the Civil War
http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/women1.html
NOVA - In The Time Of The Lincolns - A
Women's World
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/wworld/index.html
Women In Uniform In The Civil War
http://www.civilwarhome.com/womeninuniform.htm
Museum of the Confederacy - Women
http://www.moc.org/Articles/womanwar.html
Mathew Brady
Mathew Brady
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwbrady.html
Civil War Photographs
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
International Center of Photography-Mathew
Brady
http://www.icp.org/exhibitions/brady/brady.html
Eye of the Storm - This site is a promotion
for a book, but go to the lower right corner and click on Mathew Brady Studio
http://www.journale.com/eyeofthestorm/main.html
Mathew Brady
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/mbrady.html
NOVA - In The Time Of The Lincolns - The
Camera At War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/atwar/gal_camera.html
Learner.org - Civil War Photography
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog11/feature/index.html
African-American Soldiers
African-Americans in the Civil War
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/history/aa_history.htm
NOVA- In the time Of Lincoln -
African-American Regiments
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/atwar/es_aaregiments.html
African-American Odyssey-Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
Africans in America - PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
African-American Journey from World Book
http://www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/index.html
Civil War and Reconstruction (also
African-Americans)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/civilwar.html
National Archives - Black Men In Navy Blue
http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/reidy1.html
Black American Contributions To Union
Intelligence
http://www.odci.gov/csi/studies/winter98-99/art06.html
Ironclads
The Monitor-Lincoln's Secret Weapon
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/monitor/
Preserving The USS Monitor
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/monitor01/history/history.html
Monitor - Mariner's Museum
http://204.176.104.93/monitor/
Freedmen's Bureau
Freedmen's Bureau Records
http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/everly.html
Freedmen's Bureau
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vshadow2/HIUS403/freedmen/bureau.html
Civil War and Reconstruction (also
African-Americans)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/civilwar.html
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Civil War and Reconstruction (also
African-Americans)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/civilwar.html
Amendments to the Constitution
http://memory.loc.gov/const/amend.html
Amendments (These pages are tough, so know
something about the amendments before you get here)
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment13/
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment14/
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment15/
Constitution Center - Constitution and
Equality
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/sections/history/1c1.asp
U.S. Constitution Online - Notes on the
Amendments
http://www.usconstitution.net/constamnotes.html
Andrew Johnson
Civil War Generals
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/generals.html
Andrew Johnson
http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/Courses/AJO/AJO_In_Brief.htm
ABCNEWS - Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
http://204.202.137.115/sections/us/DailyNews/andrewjohnson981007.html
Reconstruction
Civil War and Reconstruction (also
African-Americans)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/civilwar.html
How Reconstruction Affected One Part Of The
South -- The Savannah River Valley
http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/beneathweb/ch16.htm
Jim Crow / Black Codes
Jim Crow
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/academics/courses/is182/s01/paint167.html
Examples of Jim Crow Laws
http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm
General Sherman
General William Tecumseh Sherman
http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/sherman.html
Civil War Generals
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/generals.html
Use the "Tools For Everybody"
Confederate States of America
White House of the Confederacy
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pjdavis/whouse.htm
White House of the Confederacy-Skidmore
http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/english/courses/en205d/student15/whiteh.html
Constitution of the Confederate States of
America
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/csa.htm
Rutherford B. Hayes
Civil War Generals
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/generals.html
Rutherford B. Hayes
http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/Courses/RBH/RBH_In_Brief.htm
Technology During the Civil War
NOVA - In The time Of The
Lincolns - Technology
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/nation/gal_technology.html
Civil War Technology
http://www.mtsu.edu/~cwtech/techwar/IR&CW.html
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney Museum
http://www.eliwhitney.org/ew.htm
Invention Dimension-Eli Whitney
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsR-Z/whitney.html
Africans in America - PBS (Scroll down for
the "Eli Whitney" article)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3narr6.html
Miscellaneous
19th Century Man
http://www.lahacal.org/gentleman/