Build Background Knowledge: Overview
Discovery Kids: American Civil War (click the topics)
Eyewitness to History: American Civil War
The History Place: US Civil War
Library of Congress: Timeline of the Civil War
Civil War Causes
America's Library: Missouri Compromise
BrainPop VIDEO: Civil War Causes
Crash Course History VIDEO: Election of 1860 & Road to Disunion
Ducksters: Civil War (Note: additional links at bottom)
TedED VIDEO: How One Piece of Legislation Divided a Nation
Combat & Life During the War
Crash Course History VIDEOS: Civil War Part I - AND - Part II
Digital Public Library of America: Civil War Topics (multiple topics to explore)
Khan Academy VIDEO: Start of the Civil War
National Park Service: Union vs. Confederacy Facts
USHistory.org: A House Divided
Weapons & Technology (NEW 2019)
Famous Battles & Turning Points
Google Arts & Culture: First Battle of Bull Run, 1861
Google Arts & Culture: Battle of Antietam, 1862
Google Arts & Culture: Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
Google Arts & Culture: Gettysburg Address, 1863
Civil War Results & Consequences, Reconstruction
BrainPop VIDEO: Reconstruction
Digital Public Library of America: Mapping the Civil War Primary sources!
Google Arts & Culture: American Civil War Portal
PBS Civil War: Video Clips from the Documentary
Google Arts & Culture: American Civil War Portal
Civil War Trust: Primary Sources
Eyewitness to History: Civil War Selections (tons of perspectives included - some linked below)
Crash Course History VIDEO: Civil War Part I (discusses perspectives)
Eyewitness to History: The Civil War Ends, 1865 Primary Source!
Facing History: 'A Day of Triumph' Primary Source!
National Humanities Center: Religion in the North
Crash Course History VIDEO: Civil War Part I (discusses perspectives)
Digital Public Library of America: Creating the Confederacy
Eyewitness to History: Life on a Southern Plantation, 1854 Primary Source!
Eyewitness to History: Sherman's March to the Sea, 1864 Primary Source!
Eyewitness to History: The South in Defeat, 1865 Primary Source!
Facing History: 'Conquered' Primary Source!
National Humanities Center: Religion in the South