David Peal, Tutor and Coach
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Civil War

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  • Teaching Hard History (from Teaching Tolerance)
  • Interactive maps comparing North and South in 1861
  • Ken Burns's Civil War (resources related to the television series)
  • History Blueprint: Civil War: Primary Sources (curriculum based on primary sources and aligned with the Common Core standards)
  • Parliament and the British Slave Trade, 1600-1807 (includes sources and dramatizations)
  • Civil War in Art (classroom resources)
  • Frederick Douglass (PBS)
  • Abolitionist Movement (anti-slavery) (Encarta)
  • Thoughts Upon Slavery by John Wesley (1774)
  • Abolition of Slavery (William Wilberforce)
  • Abolition Project
  • African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachussetts
  • David Walker (abolitionist) (includes links to his writings)
  • America's Story: Civil War (Library of Congress)
  • Slavery in the North
  • African-American Civil War
  • Abolitionist map of the US (nice concept; interactive)
  • National Parks Service: Web Rangers (nice interactive simulation, with role playing)
  • Cotton in a global economy (Mississippi); animation of cotton gin
  • Civil War: The Nation Moves to War (Library of Congress primary sources)
  • Civil War 150 (History.com)
  • Underground Railway Digital Classroom
  • Torn in Two (Civil War virtual tour)
  • North and South before the Civil War: Interactive Map
  • Civil War Discovery Trail
  • Civil War: Interactive maps
  • Civil War maps (incl. animated maps)
  • Diary of a Civil War Nurse
  • Civil War artifacts (Gettysburg College)
  • Journey through Hallowed Ground (Gettysburg to Charlottesville)
  • Civil War in America (primary sources and images from the Illustrated London Times)
  • Civil War in DC
  • Valley of the Shadow (classroom use of primary sources - Civil War)
  • Battles and Casualties of the Civil War map (excellent map)
  • Civil War Trust (detailed analysis and photos of dozens of battles)
  • 3D photos
  • Antietam 360 (multimedia tour of the battlefield)
  • Reconstruction: A Second Civil War (PBS) (includes good primary sources)
  • Diary of Emma LeConte (account of of the destruction of Charlestown, SC, in 1865)
  • Toward Racial Equality (primary sources -- from Harpers Weekly -- in the decade after the Civil War; includes anti-KKK editorials and cartoons)
  • Civil Rights Act of 1875
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    • Podcasts on history and the news