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====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is an amazing resource, well organized with links to a number of credible and scholarly resources including primary sources for photos and first hand accounts from both Confederate and Union soldiers. ====

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">From the American Civil War dot com "About" page:American Civil War dot com began as a Fifth Grade American History school project in 1996. Information has grown with help from many who have submitted original works and many who have supplied information from Historical Archives. This is why there is an abundance of grade targeted reading material on the site. __<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;">Includes flags, maps and timelines, casualties of the civil war, battles and statistics, women in the war, life stories and people search. __ ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The mission of the Center for Civil War Photography is to educate the public about Civil War photography, its role in the conflict, and its rich variety of forms and formats; to digitally secure original images and preserve vintage prints; to enhance the accessibility of photographs to the public; and to present interpretive programs that use stereoscopic and standard images to their fullest potential. ====

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">A thousand sites in one!
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mrussbaum.com was developed with the idea that crucial concepts, themes, ideas, and fact sets taught in the classroom can be enhanced over the internet through interactivity. Furthermore, for teachers to have a reliable k -8 internet site to use in the computer lab or in the classroom, that likely covers one or many themes currently being taught. ====



====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">This online collection provides access to about 7,000 different views and portraits made during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and its immediate aftermath. The images represent the original glass plate negatives made under the supervision of Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner as well as the photographic prints in the Civil War photographs file in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room. These negatives and prints are sometimes referred to as the Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eaton Collection to indicate the previous owners. The Library purchased the negatives in 1943. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Search tip for this collection: Try putting in very few search terms, particularly when searching for people (for example, try just the person's last name) .====

**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Community & Conflict the Civil War in the Ozarks] **
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">This collection offers a portrait of life in the Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma between the years of 1850 and 1875. It includes photographs, letters, journals and other artifacts that relay the difficulty of conducting everyday matters amid the destruction of the American Civil War. The accounts in this collection offer first hand perspectives on this conflict from a variety of sources: soldiers and civilians, merchants and farmers, men and women. ====



<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Don't miss Sallie Ann's best Civil War websites**
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|The American Civil War Photo Gallery] ** ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">All of the images on this website have been released to the public domain since they are government works. Includes flags, maps and time line, casualties of the civil war, battles and statistics, women in the war, life stories and people search. ====

====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Living Under Enslavement: African Americans on Hermitage Plantation] ** ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Visit the home of an enslaved carpenter from the Hermitage Plantation in Georgia and explore the ways in which African Americans cared for their families, used their skills, preserved their African traditions, and resisted enslavement. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Outline/Table of Contents for this site includes links to audio files, movies, and images.] ** ====

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Civil War-- SonoftheSouth.net] **
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Welcome to <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**The Civil War**, the WEB's most extensive source of original Civil War resources. This site has over 7,000 pages of original Civil War content, and is full of incredible photographs, original illustrations, and eye-witness accounts of the defining moments of this Historic Struggle. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hyperbole aside, this is an amazing resource in particular year by year coverage of the Civil War including battles, Lincoln's assassination, and the complete of run of Harpers Weekly newspapers from the period. ====

**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Causes of the Civil War Primary Sources] **

 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">5th Grade List of notable persons and events related to US Westward Expansion and pre and post Civil War. **

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