by TeachCivilWar | Nov 18, 2011 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Lesson Plans
Ever wonder how newspapers during Civil War covered the battles? Are your doing any research into an aspect of the Civil War and need a great primary source? Well, the Son of the South website has digitized versions of Harper’s Weekly online for your review....
by beeghleytech | Sep 17, 2011 | Lesson Plans
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following post is contributed by Beth A. Twiss Houting, Senior Director of Programs & Services, Historical Society of Pennsylvania. It talks about Civil War related topics for the National History competition. With a new school year...
by TeachCivilWar | Sep 8, 2011 | Lesson Plans
EDITORS NOTE: This is a guest post about a website that I recently found and thought was very interesting. Let me know what you think and how you can have your students create a newscast from a part of the Civil War. A casual study of history teaches our...
by beeghleytech | May 24, 2011 | Civil War Related Websites, Lesson Plans
As part of the 150th Civil War celebration, the Washington Post has created a special Civil War 150 website to share articles and resources related to the Civil War. One of these is resources is an interactive map that shows battles and casualties from the war....
by beeghleytech | Mar 14, 2011 | Civil War Related Websites, Lesson Plans
Here is a cool link that I cam across recently, a database of battlefield and historical markers. According to the website, “Listed here are blog entries, pages, and links to marker lists which detail the historical markers located on Civil War...
by beeghleytech | Feb 14, 2011 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Lesson Plans
I came across the following link and thought I would share: The HarpWeek website and has over 400 political cartoons on the Lincoln presidency. You can view different people, symbols, topics, places or artists that had something to do with these cartoons. ...
