by TeachCivilWar | Aug 8, 2009 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Lesson Plans
So I thought that I would start a series on how to use photographs from the Civil War era in order to increase understanding. Looking at photographs can tell us a great deal about many different aspects of the war. Today we will discuss the following photograph from...
by TeachCivilWar | Jul 3, 2009 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Famous Civil War Locations, Lesson Plans
The National Park Service has created a series of lesson plans known as Teaching with Historic Places and one of those historic places is Gettysburg. Choices and Commitments: The Soldiers at Gettysburg is one such lesson plan. This lesson plan starts with an inquiry...
by TeachCivilWar | Apr 25, 2009 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Famous Civil War People
April 26th marks the day that John Wilkes Booth was shot in the neck and killed by a Union Calvary soldier while hiding in a barn on the farm of Richard Garrett near Bowling Green, Virginia. Photo of the Garrett farm from http://www.nps.gov/archive/foth/escapjwb.htm...
by TeachCivilWar | Apr 15, 2009 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Famous Civil War People
On April 14, 1863, President and Mrs. Lincoln were attending a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Washington’s Ford’s Theater. As the Lincolns and their guests, Major Rathbone and his fiancee Clara Harris, watched the play John Wilkes...
by TeachCivilWar | Apr 14, 2009 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Famous Civil War People
Special thanks to Dennis Lawrence of the Gettysburg Discussion Group for pointing out the following from Speaking about Lincoln and The Lincoln Log for April 14...
by TeachCivilWar | Mar 30, 2009 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Lesson Plans
As many of you know, the Library of Congress has a website called Selected Civil War Photographs. This page makes browsing the photographs easy because they have a Search feature, a Subject browse, or you can look at photos from each year of the War. There is also...
