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he Smithsonian Institution houses an extraordinary array of Civil War artifacts in nearly a dozen of its museums and archives. They range in interest from personal effects-Abraham Lincoln's black beaver top hat-to examples of uniforms and weapons, some of which were manufactured in the tens of thousands. Many artifacts, like a sheet of ninety-six Confederate postage stamps accessioned in 1886, were gifts to the Smithsonian from the American people. In the case of these stamps, they were the first items in what became the national philatelic collection, housed today under its own roof at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum.

To find oral history projects available on the internet, try the following resources:American Slave Narratives (University of Virginia)Conversations with America (Chicago History Museum)Conversations with History (University of California, Berkeley)Go for Broke (National Education Center)Guardians of Freedom (Nieman School)Oral History Collections (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)Oral History Archives (Rutgers University)Mississippi Oral History Project (University of Southern Mississippi)Regarding War (PBS)Shoah Foundation Institute (University of Southern California)Southern Oral History Program (University of North Carolina)Telling Their Stories (Urban School of San Francisco)Tibet Oral History ProjectVeterans History Project (Library of Congress)Veterans Remember D-Day (Encyclopedia Britannica) The Vietnam Center and Archive (Texas Tech University)Voices of the Dust Bowl (Library of Congress)What Did You Do in the War Grandma? (Brown University)The Whole World Was Watching (Brown University)