Civil War, Slavery, and Reconstruction
Aboard the Underground Railroad
(Learn about the people & places associated w/the Underground Railroad including maps) |
African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
(Explores black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century) |
African-Americans During the Civil War
(Learn about the African-Americans who fought during the Civil War) |
America's Reconstruction
People & Politics After the Civil War (An all-text exhibition about one of the most turbulent and controversial eras in American history) |
The American Civil War
(Teaches that the everyday objects in society have authentic historical value & reflect the social consciousness of the era that produced them) |
American Civil War
@ spartacus-educational.com (Links to information about the timeline, battles, political figures, military leaders, events, and more) |
American Civil War for Kids
(Learn about the history of the American Civil War including causes, timeline, generals, battles, daily life, Abraham Lincoln, the North vs. South, border states, and slavery) |
Civil War
@ battlefields.org (Scroll down to learn about battles, maps. biographies, and more) |
The Civil War
@ historycentral.org (Learn about all the major events and battles of the war including the causes) |
Civil War 1860-1865
(Read about the time period that included the Civil War) |
Civil War Causes
@ mrnussbaum.com (Learn about the causes and effects, battles, people of the war, Union, Confederacy, and much more) |
Civil War Era
(Learn all about American history from 1860 to 1865) |
Dear America
Civil War (Learn about the Civil War era, view a timeline & more by clicking on Civil War on the timeline) |
Diary of a Civil War Nurse
(Read about the wartime role of women, hospital routine & more) |
Discovering the Civil War
(Exhibit takes a fresh look at the Civil War through little-known stories, seldom-seen documents, and unusual perspectives) |
Gettysburg National Military Park
(Learn about camp life in Gettysburg) |
A House Divided
(An all-text exhibition about America in the age of Lincoln) |
Mission US
Flight to Freedom (It's 1848. You are Lucy King, a 14-year-old slave in Kentucky. Will you find a path to freedom?) |
Music in Slave Life
(Select from religious, work & recreational songs to hear them, read their lyrics & explore the instruments involved in the soundscape of slavery) |
Reconstruction 1866-1877
(Information on the time period just after the Civil War) |
Sectional Conflict
(Links include Two Americas, Slavery & Sectionalism, The Abolitionists & more) |
Slave Voyages
(Analyze slave trades and view interactive maps, timelines, and animations) |
Slavery in the USA
@ spartacus-educational.com (Links to information about slave accounts, the slave system, slave life, events, issues & more) |
Slaves' Stories
(The year is 1780 & European traders will take thousands of Africans into slavery. This website follows four of those people & you will meet them on board a transatlantic slave ship) |
The Underground Railroad
@ nationalgeographic.org (You are a slave in Maryland in the 1800s. Can you escape?) |
Page updated January 17, 2021