Civil War Resources
Compiled by V. Guarino
General Resources/Historical Backdrop
Documenting the American South
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/
Civil War resources at PBS/American Memory
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/classroom/archives.html
History Place
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/index.html
Underground Railroad article
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/explore/magazine/sprsum96/UNDERGRR.htm
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
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/outlines/secession.html
http://alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/scgese112260.htm
Women soldiers in the Civil War
http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/women1.html
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
Great Overview of Sectionalism
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/ooah/ooah6.htm
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
Harper’s Weekly – Covers Every Topic
http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/3CivilWar/CivilWarLevelOne.htm
Multimedia Resources
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
The Freedom Center
http://www.undergroundrailroad.com/main.asp
Civil War Satirical Cartoons (offensive)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/SCARTOONS/cartoons.html
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/cartoon/civilalbum.html
http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/cartoons/cw/index_punch.html
Satirical Cartoons Worksheet
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/analysis_worksheets/cartoon.html
http://www.nebraskastudies.org/1100/1100_1004.html
Listen to a few Civil War tunes
http://home.att.net/~dmercado/music.htm
Civil War Music
MIDI Files – Listen to Civil War Music
http://www.pabucktail.com/songs.htm
http://www.bartonpara.com/civilwar/
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/civil.html
Sheet Music about Abe Lincoln
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html
Contract for Indenture of a Slave Girl
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AnoCont.html
Images of African American Slavery
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/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 fife tunes at
http://www.civilwarmusic.net/fife.php
African American Sheet Music
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmtitlindex1.html
Civil War resources at PBS/American Memory
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/classroom/archives.html
images
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/107_civw.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.
African Slave Trade – Description
http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/divine5e/medialib/timeline/docs/sources/
theme_primarysources_Slavery_7.html
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
A Confederat Woman’s Diary
http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/divine5e/medialib/timeline/docs/sources/
theme_primarysources_Slavery_18.html
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
Harriet Beecher Stowe
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA97/riedy/hbs.html
Harriet Tubman
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/35.htm
Political Cartoon (highly offensive)
http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/fi/000000a8.htm
Up From Slavery
http://stills.nap.edu/btw/Vol.1/html/211.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
Abe Lincoln’s Speeches
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/linc.html
Battle Maps
http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/
Missouri Compromise Map/Territories
http://www.princeton.edu/~voteview/xtabmap.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
The Debates & Speeches
A House Divided Speech
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/22.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
Bleeding Kansas
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
Dred Scott
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
Slavery in Debate
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
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
Southern Defense of Slavery: Danger of Insurrection
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/teaching/vclassroom/proslavewsht1.html
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/teaching/vclassroom/proslavewsht2.html
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/teaching/vclassroom/proslavewsht3.html
The following information can be found at:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/sla_bibl.htm
Quotations by learned men from the 19 th 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 19th-century 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.
Anti-Slavery Perspective
Opinions of a wide variety of abolitionists (with images)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3.html
Rhodes – Chapters on the Civil Wart/Abolitionists
http://www.bartleby.com/252/2.html
Black Newspapers in Canada (1851)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/h18-225-e.html
African-American Mosaic – Publications regarding abolition
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html
Lydia Maria Child
Correspondence with Gov. Wise, John Brown, and Mrs. Mason
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_lmc_as1_01.htm
Newspaper Articles
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/politics/es_media.html
Declaration of Sentiments
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/18.htm
Bannaker – Letter to Jefferson
http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/divine5e/medialib/timeli
ne/docs/sources/theme_primarysources_Slavery_9.html
Great Overview at Worldbook
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wbol/wbAuth/jsp/wbArticle.jsp
Wendell Phillips
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASphillips.htm
William Lloyd Garrison
http://www.nps.gov/boaf/garris~1.htm
Thoreau: Slavery in Massachusetts
http://eserver.org/thoreau/slavery.html
Excerpt from the last chapter of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
http://americancivilwar.com/women/hbs.html