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Primary Resources--Photos and Documents

The Civil War: The Nation Moves Toward War, 1850-61

The Civil War in America (Library of Congress)

Library of Congress: Civil War photos

Matthew Brady Civil War Photographs (National Archives)

Library of Congress: Slave Narratives

DPLA: Primary Source Sets: Civil War and Reconstruction

DPLA: Torn in Two: Mapping the American Civil War

Abolition

Abolition Overview (ABC-CLIO American History)

The New York African Free School Biographies (New York Historical Society)

The Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (Digital Public Library of America)

Reform Movements:Abolition (GVRL: American Eras)

What Conditions Led to the Abolition of Slavery? (GVRL: The Abolition of Slavery)

What is the Legacy of the Abolition of Slavery? (GVRL: The Abolition of Slavery)

American Anti-Slavery Society (GVRL: What Happened? An Encyclopedia of Events That Changed America Forever)

Abolitionists (GVRL: The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of the Civil War)

The Abolitionist Movement (The History Channel)

Timeline of the Abolitionist Movement (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)

"I Will Be Heard" Abolitionism in America (Cornell University Library)

Science / Technology / Medicine / Art

Technological Advances in Agriculture and Industry

(GVRL American Civil War)

Photography (GVRL American Civil War)

Photography (ABC-CLIO American History)

Civil War Photography (ABC-CLIO American History)

Civil War Medicine (ABC-CLIO American History)

Health and Medicine (GVRL American Civil War)

Popular Culture (GVRL American Civil War)

Music (GVRL American Civil War)

Civil War Innovations (PBS)

Artillery (GVRL Greenhaven Encyclopedia of the Civil War)

Ironclads (GVRL Greenhaven Encyclopedia of the Civil War)

Bridges (GVRL Greenhaven Encyclopedia of the Civil War)

Equipment (GVRL American Civil War)

Women

Contributions of Women (GVRL Greenhaven Encyclopedia)

Nursing (GVRL American Civil War)

Motherhood (GVRL American Civil War)

War Widows and Orphans (GVRL American Civil War)

Women Spies (GVRL American Civil War)

War on the Homefront, 1861-1865 (ABC-CLIO American History)

Women on the Battlefield (GVRL American Civil War)

A Soldier's Life

A Soldier's Life Overview (GVRL American Civil War)

Games (GVRL American Civil War)

African-American Soldiers (GVRL American Civil War)

Soldiers in Camp (GVRL American Eras)

A Soldier's Life, 1861-1865 (ABC-CLIO American History)

Correspondence of a Civil War Captain (Library of Congress)

Women on the Battlefield (GVRL American Civil War)

Waging War

Military Strategies, Northern vs. Southern

(GVRL Greenhaven Encyclopedia of the Civil War)

Battles and Campaigns

(GVRL Greenhaven Encyclopedia of the Civil War)

Generals, Confederate and Union

(GVRL Greenhaven Encyclopedia of the Civil War)

The New War of Attrition (GVRL American Eras)

Field Defenses (GVRL Greenhaven Encyclopedia of the Civil War)

Confederate Leaders (GVRL Reconstruction Era Reference Library)

The Union (IC - UXL Encyclopedia of U.S. History) *

1861: Creation of the Confederacy *

(IC - American Civil War: Almanac)

Ulysses S. Grant (IC - American Civil War: Biographies) *

George B. McClellan (IC - American Civil War: Biographies) *

George G. Meade (IC - American Civil War:Biographies)*

Joshua L. Chamberlain (IC - American Civil War:Biographies) *

Jefferson Davis (IC - American Civil War: Biographies) *

*MLA 8 Citations can be gathered from Destiny Discover Favorites

Using Destiny Discover to create citations - Video

Destiny Discover - Civil War Exhibit - Collection

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