Primary Source Gallery

Using Primary Sources for Learning

Active Learing with War Letters
War Letters offers insights into American history topics including the personal narrative, veterans, wartime service and sacrifice, military actions, and U.S. involvement in foreign affairs.
Northern Visions of Race, Region & Reform
An online resource by the American Antiquarian Society, in the press and letters of freedmen and freedmen's teachers in the Civil War Era.
Documents of Abraham Lincoln
Civil War Artifacts-UGA Digital Collection

Two Communities: One North, One South

Visit Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania and see the Civil War from both sides of the battle lines.

What can photographs tell us?

http://www.civilwarphotogallery.com/

The following link will take you to the photo analysis sheet created by the education staff at the National Archives

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/photo.html

Telling Details

The meaning is in the details. Explore the photo archive of the Civil War, scroll over the images and experience what images can tell us.

History Detectives - How do historians "do" history?

Follow this link to the History Detectives Civil War Era Investigations.

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/era_civilwar.html

Eyewitness To History

Eyewitness to History-Civil War

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