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Civil War and Reconstruction

K-12 Teachers' Workshop

March 6, 1998

 

Sponsored by the History Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Hands-on Activities

Civil War - Reconstruction General Resources

• Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction (1830's - 1890's), Rutgers University -- includes a range of primary document links
• The American Civil War, Dakota State University -- primary and secondary resource links on ~50 topics
• The American Civil War Home Page, Dr. George Hoemann, University of Tennessee, Knoxville -- primary and secondary resource links on 100+ topics
• The U.S. Civil War Center, Louisiana State University -- resources for locating individuals involved in the U.S. Civil War

Primary Documents

General

• Civil War Photographs Collection, American Memory Project, Library of Congress
• CIVIL WAR WOMEN: Primary Sources on the Internet, Duke University
• Civil War Music and Poetry
• Archives of African American Music, Indiana State University
• The Jesuit Plantation Project, American Studies Department, Georgetown University
• African American History, Historical Text Archive, Mississippi State University

 

Abolition

• Selections on Abolition from the African-American Mosaic, Library of Congress
• Abolition Debate in the 1831-32 Virginia Assembly, Corey McLellan, University of Virginia

 

Emancipation

• The Emancipation Proclamation, National Archives and Records Administration
• Freedman and Southern Society Project, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park
• The Fight for Civil Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War, National Archives and Records Administration

 

First Person Accounts by African Americans

• Library of Congress Manuscripts: African-American History and Culture
• Third Person, First Person, Special Collections, Duke University
• Excerpts from Slave Narratives, Steven Mintz, University of Houston

 

First Person Accounts by Civil War Soldiers

• The Civil War Letters of Galutia York, SUNY Morrisville
• Letters From an Iowa Soldier, William Scott Proudfoot, West Valley College

 

Comparative Records/Evidence for the North and the South

• Valley of the Shadow, Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia -- explores the Civil War and Reconstruction through 1000s of pages of historical evidence on Staunton, Virginia and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

 

Massachusetts Regimental Histories and Related Materials

• 11th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Boston)
• 20th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Harvard)
• 27th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
• 44th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
• 54th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Celebrated unit of black soldiers)
  • Site 1
  • Site 2 (Company B)
  • Site 3 (Casualty List from National Archives and Records Administration)
• 56th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Other Resources

• Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation, an electronic journal
• History and Social Science Framework, Massachusetts Department of Education