Grade 8 - Civil War

Assignment & Expectations

Link to the project expectations

American Civil War Online Resources

Antecedents & Contributing Factors

• Confederate States of America - Declaration of the Immediate Causes .....

• Constitution of the Confederate States: March 11, 1861

• The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States

• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Civil War & Reconstruction, 1861-1877

• Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

  • Her Words Changed the World

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Library of Congress 

  • Abolition/Anti-slavery Primary Sources

  • Slavery - The Peculiar Institution

• Massachusetts Historical Society

  • Anti-Slavery Images

  • The Case for Ending Slavery

• National Archives & Records Administration

  • E. Cady Stanton Address - "To the Women of the Republic"

  • Map Showing Virginia's Slave Population: 1860Census

  • "Peter" Showing Whipping Scars

• PBS - Africans in America/Abolition

North & South at War

• American Civil War in Missouri

• Civil War Trust

• Death and the Civil War

• Death & Mourning in the Civil War Era

• Library of Congress(LOC) 

• Massachusetts Historical Society

  • 54th Regiment!

• National Archives 

  • Civil War Military Records

  • Discovering the Civil War

  • Matthew Brady Civil War Photographs

  • Teaching with Civil War Documents

• National Park Service: Civil War

• National Portrait Gallery - Civil War 150

• PBS - Civil War Innovations

• Slavery, Famine and the Politics of Pie: What Civil War Recipes Reveal

• Union Attacks Confederacy at Petersburg, Virginia

• U.S. National Library of Medicine: African Americans in Civil War Medicine

• The Valley of the Shadow Project

• LOC - Women Soldiers in the Civil War -Part 1

• LOC - Women Soldiers in the Civil War - Part 2

Evaluate!

Read!

Think!

Read!

Look away & think!

Write!

Check!

Cite!

Write page numbers!

Pathfinder Keywords

Citation Expectations

Information Evaluation & Note Taking Expectations

"Many factors contributed to the Civil War. 

One caused it: slavery."

Ken Burns, Twitter post, 31 Oct. 2017

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." 

William Faulkner 1897-1962

"Allowing bad history to stand literally makes the public stupid about the past - today."

James W. Loewen, born 1942

General Online Resources    

• ABC-Clio  - Search "American Civil War" in following databases

  • American Government

  • American History

  • Daily Life Through History

  • U.S. Geography

• EBSCOHost

• World Book Online

Video Resources

Annenberg Learner 

• Slavery: The South and Slave Culture

• The Coming of the Civil War

• The Civil War: Vicksburg

Link to print resources

 in the library collection