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April Jorgensen

The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War - 1 views

valley.lib.virginia.edu

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  • April Jorgensen on 13 Sep 10
     
    This site is presented by the Virginia Center for Digital History and the University of Virginia Library. It showcases two communities during the Civil War. One count was in the north, and one was in the south. It provides an interesting case study of life on both sides of the war. Students and teachers can use this site to compare maps, letters, diaries, newspaper articles, speeches and records in both communities. It also organizes the war into three eras: the eve of war, the war years, and the aftermath.
ljorasmussen

The American Civil War Homepage - 1 views

sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war

UNORef10 American History Civil War Primary Documents

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  • ljorasmussen on 25 Sep 10
     
    This site which began as a class project for the University of Tennessee's School of Information Sciences during the Fall 1994 semester has grown to an extensive site over the years. It contains links to numerous sources for primary documents from the Civil War. Documents which one can be linked most notably include images and maps of battles, but sources from Civil War music and poetry can also be accessed from the page,
Kathie White

The Civil War - 1 views

www.sonofthesouth.net/...the-civil-war.htm

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  • Kathie White on 26 Sep 10
     
    This is a cool site. It has newspapers that were actually written during the Civil War era. It has them listed by year. The man who teaches next to me does an awesome job of teaching the Civil War each year. A good project for the kids might be to have them in groups or pairs and each research a particular time line during the war. They may not even believe newspapers existed back then so this site would be a good one to lead them toward to do research. Each paper has pictures and writing.
Lindsay Peterson

U.S. Civil War Effects on People: Primary Sources - 2 views

www.ket.org/primary.html

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shared by Lindsay Peterson on 23 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Denise Adams on 23 Sep 10
     
    This site talks about the causes of the Civil War and has letters, memoirs and diaries of people that lived through the Civil War. It would give kids a better feeling about how people felt at the time the war was going on.
  • Lindsay Peterson on 02 Oct 10
     
    This cite shares differing points of views during the civil war. This site includes letters to and from family members, soldiers, slaves, women and children. It would be interesting to compare the letters to the social studies books kids use in class.
Christine Sturgeon

Harper's Weekly full scans of Civil War newspapers - 1 views

www.sonofthesouth.net/...abraham-lincoln-death.htm

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  • Christine Sturgeon on 23 Sep 10
     
    This website is a veritable prize for teaching the Civil War. There are full page scans of every weekly issue of Harper's Weekly during the Civil War. Beautiful line art and verbose writing style included for free. The site has Google ads, but no pop-ups at least, and the content is valuable enough to be worth wading through those. The site is easily navigated, so that isn't difficult. Great for writing Civil War DBQs.
April Jorgensen

The Papers of Jefferson Davis - 1 views

jeffersondavis.rice.edu

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  • April Jorgensen on 13 Sep 10
     
    This site would be a great addition to a civil war unit because it uses documents from Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. It would help to present both sides of the war to students. Often in teaching the civil war, we neglect to explain some of the ways that the South felt slighted and it would make for a good analysis for students to be able to view and examine the papers of Jefferson Davis.
Valerie Kubick

The Civil War Home Page - 0 views

www.civil-war.net

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  • Valerie Kubick on 25 Sep 10
     
    This site offers a plethora of primary source documents from the Civil War. From photographs to battle maps and diaries to speeches this site is a great resource for teaching students to do the real work of historians with primary sources. Instead of copying answers students can make their own, as McKenzie would say.
Nancy Coffey

First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 - 0 views

memory.loc.gov/...fpnashome.html

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  • Nancy Coffey on 26 Sep 10
     
    This site gives personal narratives from slaves during the Civil War and after.
  • Nancy Coffey on 26 Sep 10
     
    This site includes diaries, autobiographies and travel accounts from ex-slaves. I would use this site in the study of the Civil War to give the students a better understanding of what the slaves thought of their situation.
Christine Sturgeon

Civil War diaries - 0 views

digital.lib.uiowa.edu/...document.php

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  • Christine Sturgeon on 23 Sep 10
     
    The University of Iowa Archives have put online scans of Civil War diaries, including soldiers held at Andersonville Prison, with full transcriptions to make sense of that 1800s penmanship.
ljorasmussen

Primary Source Documents from Virginia - 1 views

www.lva.virginia.gov/...index.htm

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  • ljorasmussen on 26 Sep 10
     
    This site hosted by the Library of Virginia contains a number of transcriptions of primary documents. The documents (most of which are excerpts from larger texts) are related to Virginia and are organized for time period, for example "A Nation in the Making" or "Virginia and the New South". This site would be useful in a number of American History Units as it contains texts from before the Revolution as well as from the Civil War.
ljorasmussen

Kansas Memory - 1 views

www.kansasmemory.org

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  • ljorasmussen on 26 Sep 10
     
    Similar to our own Nebraska Memories site, this site provides a wealth of information dealing with Kansas history. This includes photos, letters, diaries, government records and much more. They also have the documents organized in a number of ways including topically and by date in addition to search capabilities. This site could be especially helpful when learning about Bleeding Kansas, the Civil War and Plains settlement.
Nancy Coffey

100 Top Documents in History - 0 views

www.ourdocuments.gov

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  • Nancy Coffey on 27 Sep 10
     
    This site has 100 of the top primary doucments in history. I would use this site in the study of the Civil War and link to the telegram that announces the surrender of Fort Sumter.
Deb naidenovich

The University of Oklahoma College of Law: A Chronology of US Historical Documents - 1 views

www.law.ou.edu/...index.shtml

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  • Deb naidenovich on 03 Oct 10
     
    An excellent site for social studies research with major documents from pre-colonial to the present. I searched for primary documents about the civil war and found this site.
Deanna Reilly

Born in Slavery - 1 views

memory.loc.gov/...snhome.html

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  • Sandra Kriz on 27 Sep 10
     
    Thousands of narrative excerpts giving first person accounts of slavery and the individuals it affected. These are accounts of the cruelty and plantation life. There are also hundreds of photos of former slaves.
  • Deanna Reilly on 29 Sep 10
     
    This site contains narratives of past slaves that were created in the late 1930's. This site, which is a part of the Library of Congress, provides excellent primary sources that respresent a group of people whose voice was often not heard. Teachers and students could use this site when studying the Civil War and slavery, the Civil Rights movement, writing using dialect, to partner with an historical fiction novel that touches on the subject of slavery, and more.
Denise Adams

Documenting the American South - 0 views

docsouth.unc.edu

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  • Denise Adams on 22 Sep 10
     
    This is a great source when studying southern history, literature or culture. In this source you will find slave and other first-person narratives of the South, as well as a collection of southern literature. It could be used when studying the Civil War to get more of a southern point of view.
Anne J. Coffman

Civil War Letters - 0 views

www.civilwarletters.com/index.html

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  • Anne J. Coffman on 22 Sep 10
     
    This site caught my attention because the letters are from an Iowa soldier. He was actually from my grandmother's home town. The site shows pictures of the soldier and the women he was sending them to. It has the original letters along with lesson plan ideas for teachers how to use them with a class.
Deanna Reilly

Footnote - 1 views

www.footnote.com

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  • Deanna Reilly on 24 Sep 10
     
    Site's front page uses timeline to break history of US into 7 eras; ie 1700-1815, 1815-1860 and so on. You can search by era, or by topic. Topics include Civil War, Holocaust, Vietnam Memorial and more. Documents can be zoomed in on enough to read legible writing.
Laura Horn

American Slave Narratives - 3 views

xroads.virginia.edu/...wpahome.html

Slavery; Civil War; First Person Narratives

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  • Valerie Kubick on 25 Sep 10
     
    This site offers readers a chance to hear the voices of people the history textbooks have traditionally left out. Interviews done in the 1930's with former slaves are transcribed on this site, some with photographs of the former slave included. The transcripts are difficult to read because of dialect, racial slurs, and some troubling content. With teacher assistance, though, I think these transcripts could help students better understand life for slaves in our country's history.
  • Laura Horn on 26 Sep 10
     
    This site provides first-person accounts from former slaves. I have actually used this site in American Literature to show students what slaves went through. It gives them a voice and students have really connected with the slaves' stories. Students can find lots of material about slavery, but the first-person accounts make it much more personal.
Jennifer Misbach

Digital History - 1 views

www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/...documents_p1.cfm

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  • Ronda Deabler on 26 Sep 10
     
    This site has over 600 primary source documents from the time of Christopher Columbus to the Civil War. This would connect with 5th grade curriculum about the American Revolution and Native Americans. This would be a great resource to introduce to teachers and students.
  • Jennifer Misbach on 28 Sep 10
     
    This is an amazing site with hundreds of annotated American political documents.  There are items written by Christopher Columbus, Cotton Mather, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and William Bradford.  This site would be very useful to a classroom teacher to show the actual documents that are discussed in a textbook. 
Juli Steen

American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page - 3 views

memory.loc.gov/index.html

American History Primary Source

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  • April Jorgensen on 13 Sep 10
     
    This site is a WEALTH of information on the history of the United States. It includes letters, documents, photos, audio and video that are all in the public domain (and there fore also legal to use) since they are all owned by the U.S. government. Using the search box will yield many results. My favorite search on this site is to find primary sources about the great depression. A search tip: be sure to click "gallery view" when you look at your search results. It helps you know what type of source you are looking at.
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  • Annette Coon on 22 Sep 10
     
    This site covers historical topics, contains historical images and has a special teacher page with lessons and materials that are ready to use in the classroom. I love this site and use it often especially when I need some extra material for historical holiday celebrations in the classroom.
  • Juli Steen on 22 Sep 10
     
    This website has loads of links to primary sources on US history. I like the flexibility of the "more browse options" to find collections by time period, place or source format in addition to the browse by topic option. Source formats include books, periodicals, photos and film, some dating back to the 1400's. The "today in history" link is a good place to find daily tidbits to throw into lessons.
  • Tammy Davis on 26 Sep 10
     
    This site from the Library of Congress provides a vast collection of primary sources for educators. I like the way the site is organized so you can browse the collections by topic. One of the collection highlights is the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Abraham Lincoln. This is a collection of more than 11,100 items donated to the Library of Congress in 1953. This collections includes Lincoln's life, Presidency, slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Primary sources available from the Lincoln era include newspapers, Lincoln's law papers, sheet music, broadsides, prints, cartoons, maps, drawings, letters, and campaign tickets.
  • Caitlin Nelson on 26 Sep 10
     
    There is a lot on this website for students to search for primary and government documents. They are organized by topic or you can search for specifically what you need. This site is a great resource . There are many different ways you could use the documents found here.
  • Laura Horn on 26 Sep 10
     
    This site provides information that teachers from many different disciplines could use in their classrooms. There's information about literature, the environment, immigration, as well as culture and sports. There's also a link specifically for teachers where they can get lesson plans and ideas for their classroom.
  • MK Kreikemeier on 28 Sep 10
     
    search: Oregon Trail first person accounts and maps that help to explain trails and settlements Lincoln Public - grade 4 - Social Studies * Major rivers and terrain determined trail paths and settlement sites * Motivation varied (Oregon = land, California = gold, Mormon = religious freedom)
  • Catherine Wilkinson on 02 Oct 10
     
    There are some great sites at this source. Their topics run from Women's history to Native American history. There are even maps. This would be a big help for upper elementary to 12th grade.
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