Civil War Homework Help

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General Sites

American Civil War Home Page
Civil War at Smithsonian: Collecting, Preserving, Remembering the National Experience This site, produced by the National Portrait Gallery, provides information and pictures from the Smithsonian Institution's extensive collections on the United States Civil War. The collections represented include slavery and abolition, Abraham Lincoln, weapons, leaders, cavalries, navies, the surrender at Appomattox, and the life and culture of the time. A bibliography of resources and timeline of events relating to the war are also available.
Great American History's Civil War Page Includes lesson plans, outline, and much more! Content by Civil War historian Gordon Leidner.
The History Place Civil War Website
Photographic Time Line of the Civil War
United States Civil War Center
The Valley of the Shadow Two communities in the American Civil War

Don't forget to check out the Biography Homework Help page to look up biographies of President Lincoln, General Lee, General Grant and others!