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Abraham
Lincoln Online - Quotes by and about Abraham Lincoln, historical
information about Lincoln, and photographic tours of places significant
in his life.
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln.html
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Abraham
Lincoln's Presidential Library and Museum - This new museum offers a timeline of Lincoln's life and a virtual tour of the facility.
http://www.alplm.org/home.html
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Africans
in America: Judgment Day, 1831-1865 - An illustrated narrative
about the period, a resource bank containing biographies, primary
sources, commentary from modern historians, and a teacher's guide.
The companion to the PBS series.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/title.html
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The
American Civil War - Current, comprehensive, and well-organized
set of links on Civil War topics such as battles, music, and women
in the war. Maintained by Jim Janke at Dakota State University.
http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm
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The American Civil
War Home Page - Gateway to Internet resources on the American
Civil War. Includes public and personal documents, visual documents,
and maps. Maintained by George Hoemann at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
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American Civil War
Collections - The University of Virginia presents seven collections of Civil War letters, including letters from both Confederate and Union soldiers.
http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/
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American
Visionaries: Frederick Douglass - An introduction to Douglass's
life and work, illustrated with photographs of Douglass, his home,
and various possessions. From the National Park Service.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/douglass/
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America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil
War - Detailed analysis illustrated with primary sources. From
the Gilder-Lehrmann Institute and the University of Houston, which
also hosts an exhibit on A
House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html
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Andrew
Johnson Impeachment Trial - Detailed information about the impeachment,
from Douglas O. Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Law School.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/impeach/impeachmt.htm
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The Civil War
in the Classroom - This companion site to the Ken Burns documentary
provides ready-to-use lesson plans, including lessons on researching
the Civil War in the local community.
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/classroom/
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Civil War @ Smithsonian
- This site provides access to many of the Smithsonian's resources
on the Civil War.
http://civilwar.si.edu/home.html
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Civil War Book Review - Reviews and author interviews related to new books on the Civil War. From the U.S. Civil War Center at Louisiana State University.
http://www.cwbr.com/
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Civil
War Women - The papers of three women who lived during the Civil
War—a spy, a Union Army recruiter, and a schoolgirl. From
Duke University.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html
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Crisis at Fort Sumter
- Detailed background information is provided to assist users in
solving the dilemmas facing President Lincoln in the events surrounding
the fall of Fort Sumter. From Richard Latner of Tulane University.
http://www.tulane.edu/~sumter/
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eHistory Primary Sources
- Ohio State University presents Civil War letters and diaries, as well as the official records of the Union and Confederate armies.
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/
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Emancipation Proclamation - Transcript of the document, an essay by noted historian John Hope Franklin, and an audio interview with a former slave who reflects on conditions after emancipation.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/
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Eye of
the Storm - The drawings and journal of Union soldier Knox Sneden,
newly discovered in the 1990s and made available by the Virginia
Historical Society.
http://www.musarium.com/eyeofthestorm/main.html
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Freedmen and Southern
Society Project - Essays and many primary source documents related
to emancipation of American slaves. Among the tools on the site
is a Chronology of Emancipation During the Civil War. From the University
of Maryland.
http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/
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Gettysburg National Military Park Virtual Tour – The National Park Service provides detailed information about the Battle of Gettysburg.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/main-ms.htm
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Gilmer Civil War Maps Collection – Collection of 161 Civil War maps drawn by Confederate officer Jeremy Gilmer; provided by the University of North Carolina libraries.
http://dc.lib.unc.edu/gilmer/index.php
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HarpWeek - Cartoons, photographs,
magazine covers, and articles published in the mid-19th century.
Some products must be purchased, but many others are available free
on the site.
http://www.harpweek.com/
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Historical New York
Times Project - The New York Times is putting selected historic
newspapers online to illustrate how major events were covered by
journalists of the time.
http://www.nyt.ulib.org/index.cgi
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Lincoln - A special issue of the Gilder Lehrman Institute journal History Now provides essays and lessons on aspects of the 16th President’s ideas and actions.
http://www.historynow.org/12_2005/index.html
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The Lincoln Institute – This nonprofit organization presents a variety of online exhibits on such topics as Lincoln in the White House, Lincoln’s female friends, and the impact of the Founders on Lincoln’s thinking; teaching materials are also provided.
http://www.abrahamlincoln.org/
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Lincoln/Net - Northern
Illinois University focuses on "the Illinois years" (through
1861), providing historical essays and such primary source documents
as transcripts of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/
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Lincoln North - An unusual collection of “Lincolniana” donated to McGill University by collector Joseph N. Nathanson.
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/lincoln/intro/cover1a.html
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Making of America
- A large collection of books and journal articles from the period
1850-1877. A project of the University of Michigan.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
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Missouri’s Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857
- This site from the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office provides background information and primary sources on the landmark case.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/africanamerican/scott/scott.asp
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Nebraska Studies: 1850-1874 - This site on Nebraska history provides insight into many events of national significance-the impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the first black settlers in the territory, the Homestead Act, and more.
http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0500/frameset.html
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North American Slave
Narratives - Part of the University of North Carolina's Documenting
the American South site, this page presents more than 200 narratives
by slaves and former slaves, many published between 1850 and 1877.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/neh.html
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Papers of Jefferson Davis
- Selected primary sources from the papers of the CSA's president.
http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/
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Reconstruction: The Second Civil War - This PBS site provides teaching activities; background information on such topics as access to learning, black legislators, and the impact of the Civil War on individual states; and access to the two American Experience episodes about reconstruction.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/
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Stratford Plantation: The
Birthplace of Robert E. Lee - Extensive information about Robert
E. Lee and the Lee family, including primary source documents.
http://www.stratfordhall.org/
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Thomas Nast - Extensive portfolio of Nast's work, along with an interesting essay by historian Morton Keller, who highlights Nast's work related to slavery and the Civil War.
http://cartoons.osu.edu/nast/
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Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters - This site presents writings of 49 people who traveled the trails to the west between 1846 and 1869. From Brigham Young University.
http://overlandtrails.lib.byu.edu/
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Ulysses S. Grant Association - Historical information and documents about the Union general and president.
http://twister.lib.siu.edu/projects/usgrant/
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Uncle Tom's
Cabin and American Culture - A rich site from Professor Stephen
Railton of the University of Virginia. The site provides primary
sources, teaching suggestions, and historical analysis.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/
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The Underground
Railroad - A site for young people provided by National Geographic.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
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The Valley of the Shadow
Project: Living the Civil War in Virginia and Pennsylvania -
A unique web site containing many types of primary sources on the
Civil War relating to two communities - one North and one South.
Maintained by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
at the University of Virginia.
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/