Civil War Resources
General Resources/Historical Backdrop
Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
History Place
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/index.html
Underground Railroad at National Gaographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
Civil War – Timeline and hyperlinks – History Place
http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/
Encyclopedia Overview of Civil War
http://www.us-civilwar.com/
More secession info at Valley of the Shadow
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/outlines/secession.html
Primary Source Doc Re: secession
http://alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/scgese112260.htm
Contract for Indenture of a Slave Girl
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AnoCont.html
Civil War Home
http://www.civilwarhome.com/links3.htm
Civil War General Resources
http://www.civil-war.net/
Seven Civil War stories Your Teacher Never Shared
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/06/12/mf.civil.war/index.html
The Monitor
http://monitor.noaa.gov/about/history.html
Multimedia Resources
National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian – Civil War
http://www.civilwar.si.edu/
Civil War Multimedia – Battlefields from NatGeo
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature5/multimedia.html
Photo Journal of the Civil War (with audio & images)
http://www.postgazette.com/journal/photos_bygallery.asp?special=National+Civil+War+Museum&x=10&y=8
Civil War at PBS
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/
The Coming of the Civil War from Inst of Amer Hist
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module9/index.html
Lincoln’s Secret Weapon.
Interactive Timeline
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/lookingforlincoln/featured/timeline-lincoln-over-time/260/
Interactive Battle Map & Battle Summaries
http://www.civilwar.com/component/option,com_battlemap/
MapMachine Interactive – Civil War Edition
http://java.nationalgeographic.com/maps/civilwar/
Civil War at History Place
http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html
Civil War Photos
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
National Parks of the Civil War
http://cwar.nps.gov/civilwar/
Listen to a few Civil War tunes
http://www.civilwarmusic.net/
http://www.pdmusic.org/civilwar2.html
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettkidz/music.htm
A Soldier’s Letter Exhibit
http://www.nps.gov/cwdw/photosmultimedia/fort-marcy-letter.htm
Civil War Currency
http://www.frbsf.org/currency/civilwar/index.html
Sheet Music about Abe Lincoln
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html
Images of African American Slavery
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/082_slave.html
Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture-Multimedia Archive
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/
Slave Shackle
http://www.kshs.org/cool/shackle.htm
Songs of the Confederacy & Songs of the Union
http://www.civilwarmusic.net/songs.php
Listen to tunes at
http://www.civilwarmusic.net/fife.php
African American Sheet Music
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmtitlindex1.html
Slavery Resources/Primary Source Documents
Slavery Primary Source Sets at Lib of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/psources/slavery.html
“A Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” by E.B. Browning – annotated version for students
http://caxton.stockton.edu/runawayslave/stories/storyReader$10
The African American Pamphlet Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html
Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Ida B. WellsBarnett.
Slave Narrative excerpts
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/10.htm
First Person Narratives of the American South
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnashome.html
Excerpts of Slave Narratives
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm
African American History at the Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm
Slave Story
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AnoSlav.html
Public Hiring of Free Negroes (poster)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccernew2?id=ManPubl.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=publ
ic&part=all
The Sale of a Family of Slaves - Correspondence
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccernew2?id=SmyLett.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=publ
ic&part=all
Illustrations from Uncle Tom’s Cabin
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Sto1Cab.html
Slave Voices
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery/
Slave Life
http://gropius.lib.virginia.edu/Slavery/search.html
Fugitive Slave Act
http://americancivilwar.com/documents/Fugitive_Slave_Act_1850.html
Additional Primary Source Documents
Journals
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/letters.html
Letters Written During the Civil War
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/civilwar/
Editorials regarding each of the major topics (Dred Scott, Nebraska Bill, etc)
http://history.furman.edu/~benson/docs/index.htm
Secession speeches
http://americancivilwar.com/documents/williamson_address.html
http://americancivilwar.com/documents/dargan_speech.html
http://americancivilwar.com/documents/south_carolina_address.html
Declaration of Secession
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html
Confederate Declaration
http://americancivilwar.com/documents/confederate_constitution.html
Women soldiers in the Civil War
http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/women1.html
Great Overview of Sectionalism
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/ooah/ooah6.htm
Abe Lincoln’s Speeches
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/linc.html
Battle Maps
http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/
Civil War resources at PBS/American Memory
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/classroom/archives.html
John Brown Information
John Brown’s Raid
http://www.civilwarhome.com/johnbrown.htm
Article about the raid (1859)
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vshadow/ssnews.html
PBS John Brown’s Holy War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/
Worldbook overview-John Brown
http://worldbook.bigchalk.com/079060.htm
Africans In America – John Brown – general info
http://www.bigchalk.com/cgibin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/wa/HWCDA/file?fileid=31375&flt=ga
Popular Sovereignty
Definition – Encyclopedia
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0839723.html
Constitution Basics – meaning
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/sections/basics/basic_1f.asp
Issues revolving around popular sovereignty
http://www.bartleby.com/65/po/populars.html
General Info
http://www.gliah.uh.edu/modules/civwar/historiography.html
http://ragz-international.com/american_civil_war.htm
All of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates at Bartleby
http://www.bartleby.com/251/
Abraham Lincoln Online
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/education/educate.htm
Lincoln-Douglas Debates Site
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/lincolndouglas/about.html
Lincoln Douglas Interactive Map
http://atlas.lib.niu.edu/Website/Camp_1858/viewer.htm?Title=LincolnDouglas%20Campaign%20of%201858
CNN on debate form (Lincoln/Douglas)
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/debates/history.story/intro2.html
Overview of Calhoun, Hayne
http://216.202.17.223/hwdebate.htm#What%20Was%20It%20About?
http://216.202.17.223/hwdebate.htm#Robert%20Y.%20Hayne%20and%20Daniel%20Webster
Summary of debate (Webster/Hayne)
http://216.202.17.223/hwdebate.htm#A%20Brief%20Summary%20of%20the%20Debate
Paraphrase and Originals
http://216.202.17.223/hayne1.htm
http://216.202.17.223/hw_parap.htm
Missouri Compromise Map/Territories
http://www.princeton.edu/~voteview/xtabmap.html
Harriet Beecher Stowe
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA97/riedy/hbs.html
Harriet Tubman
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/35.htm
Bleeding Kansas – Kansas Museum
http://www.kshs.org/places/mainble.htm
An Appeal to American People – A Woman from Kansas Speaks Out
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/kancoll/books/robinson/r_chap24.htm
Kansas article
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/kancoll/articles/progress/civil.htm
The Lawrence Massacre
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/kancoll/books/cordley_massacre/quantrel.raid.html
Kansas Nebraska Act – History Place
http://www.bigchalk.com/cgibin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/wa/HWCDA/file?fileid=220714&flt=CAB
Civil War Music
http://www.bartonpara.com/civilwar/
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/civil.html
http://www.civilwarmusic.net/
MIDI Files – Listen to Civil War Music
http://www.pabucktail.com/songs.htm
Dred Scott Court Case Summaries (Touro law)
http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/CaseSummary.html
Summary of Opinion of the Court
http://www.hrcr.org/docs/US_Constitution/dscott3.html
PBS-Dred Scott
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html
Documentation of Decision
http://www.civics-online.org/library/formatted/texts/dred_scott.html
Dred Scott Case – Missouri Archives
http://www.sos.state.mo.us/archives/resources/africanamerican/scott/scott.asp
Anti-Slavery Sentiment
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3.html
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html
Frederick Douglass on “The Anti-Slavery Movement”
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/classes/Sources/Douglass.html
Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/aass_a58.htm
Douglass Archives
http://douglassarchives.org/directory/_4_Slavery_and_the_Ordeal_of_the_Union/
Great Timeline – Black History and Slavery Issues
http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/2Slavery/SlaveryTimeline.htm
Civil War Women
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html
http://americancivilwar.com/women/women.html
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/spring_1993_women_in_the_civil_war_1.html
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/hearts/
http://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/remember/rtl6.htm
http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/women.html
images
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/107_civw.html
American Slavery As It Is
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/abolitn/amslavhp.html
General Info about Calhoun
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcalhoun.htm
Apologist’s Perspective – Obviously, many of these quotes are especially
offensive and inflammatory. Please keep that in mind when you are selecting from
them.
Several Quotes
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/quotes.html
Another set of quotes with interesting info
http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/features/faq/sectional.cfm
Cotton Is King
http://www.gliah.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=22
Slavery – Ordained by God (1853)
http://smith2.sewanee.edu/gsmith/Courses/Religion391/DocsMilitantSouth/1853GovHammond.html
Scroll down to Chapter 21 (XXI) entitled “Negro Slavery”
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fitzhughcan/fitzcan.html#fitz294
John Calhoun Quotes
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/a128906.html
The Universal Law of Slavery (Fitzhugh)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3141t.html
A clear and concise overview of the Civil War
A Comprehensive, clear overview of the Civil War and the Events Leading to it
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog10/transcript/page02.html
The following information can be found at :
http://www.religioustolerance.org/sla_bibl.htm
Quotations by learned men from the 19th century:
"[Slavery] was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments,
from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed in all ages, has been found among the people of the highest
civilization, and in nations of the highest proficiency in the arts." Jefferson Davis, President of the
Confederate States of America. 1,2
"There is not one verse in the Bible inhibiting slavery, but many regulating it. It is not then, we conclude,
immoral." Rev. Alexander Campbell
"The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example." Rev.
R. Furman, D.D., Baptist, of South Carolina
"The hope of civilization itself hangs on the defeat of Negro suffrage." A statement by a prominent 19thcentury southern Presbyterian pastor, cited by Rev. Jack Rogers, moderator of the Presbyterian Church
(USA).
"The doom of Ham has been branded on the form and features of his African descendants. The hand of fate
has united his color and destiny. Man cannot separate what God hath joined." United States Senator James
Henry Hammond. 3
Overview:
The quotation by Jefferson Davis, listed above, reflected the beliefs of many Americans in the 19th century.
Slavery was seen as having been "sanctioned in the Bible." They argued that:
Biblical passages recognized, controlled, and regulated the practice.
The Bible permitted owners to beat their slaves severely, even to the point of killing them. However, as long
as the slave lingered longer than 24 hours before dying of the abuse, the owner was not regarded as having
committed a crime, because -- after all -- the slave was his property. 4
Paul had every opportunity to write in one of his Epistles that human slavery -- the owning of one person as
a piece of property by another -- is profoundly evil. His letter to Philemon would have been an ideal
opportunity to vilify slavery. But he wrote not one word of criticism.