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The Emancipation Proclamation

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Black History

Civil Rights Movement

The Civil War Book Collection

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Brother against Brother
The American Civil War

Links

Civil War Timeline Americancivilwar.com

Civil War Exhibits Americancivilwar.com

Civil War Documents Americancivilwar.com

Civil War Maps Library of Congress

Images of the Civil War selected images from the National Archives

Civil War Illustrated Timeline History Homepage

Civil War Center United States Civil War Center Louisiana State University

American Civil War War Homepage

Shotgun's Civil War Home Center lots of info presented with the author's personal perspective

Civil War Rare Map Collection

Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library Library of Congress exhibits on the Lincoln assassination and the Emancipation Proclamation

Civil War exhibit Library of Congress - includes photographs

United States Civil War Canadian Forces College

American Civil War Washington College

Civil War Modern History Internet Sourcebook Fordham University - primary documents

Civil War Trust articles on the civil war as well this day in Civil War history

The Secession and its Causes North Carolina Division of Archives and History

Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation White House Historical Association

The Civil War Chronology North Park University - a useful detailed chronology

Cartoons and Caricatures of the Civil War Gary Wait

Reconstruction Chronology North Park University

Atlanta and the Election of 1864 Civil War Trust

Battle of Gettysburg National Park Service - articles, images, maps

Antebellum America Primary Sources Longman American History Online

Antebellum South Primary Sources Longman American History Online

The Road to War Primary Sources Longman American History Online

The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War University of Virginia Research Project - an extensive site

Crisis at Fort Sumter University of Tulane - a multimedia exhibit exploring the events leading up to the Civil War

Civil War Women  Online Archival Collections Duke University

Compromise of 1877 North Park University

Ratification of 14th Amendment North Park University

Plessy v. Ferguson North Park University - about the Supreme Court case which articulated the "separate but equal" doctrine, upholding segregation

The Civil War Primary Sources Longman American History Online

Reconstruction Primary Sources Longman American History Online

Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy North Park University

The Civil War Ragz International - a visually interesting site on the Civil War 

The Civil War History Education Homepage

History Books

Featured Exhibits


The First American Colony at Jamestown


Civil War Book Pick

Hallowed Ground by James McPherson


McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and renowned Civil War historian, walks us through the site of the bloodiest battle ever fought by Americans.

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Pulitzer Prize winning Author Joseph J. Ellis says in this new biography that Americans see their first president on dollar bills, quarters, and Mount Rushmore, but only as "an icon--distant, cold, intimidating." Ellis gives us a fresh portrait.


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Meriwether Lewis


The official leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition, surviving the expedition in defiance of the odds, returned home to commit suicide.

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