External Resources

Sesquicentennial Link

• Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Sesquicentennial Website

Civil War Centers

• Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar in VA
• The George Tyler Moore Civil War Center in WV
• Young-Sanders Center for the Study of the War Between the States in Louisiana
• Civil War Trust
• Civil War Center at Virginia Tech
• The American Civil War Museum
• George and Anne Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State
• George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War at Shepherd University
• US Army Heritage and Education Center

Historical Archives and Documents

• Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University
• Virginia Military Institute: VMI Archives
• Illinois in the Civil War
• Duke University: The Civil War: Women and the Homefront
• Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Reading Room
• AbrahamLincoln.org
• The Valley Project
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Documenting the American South
• Library of Congress: Frederick Douglass papers
• The Freedmen's Bureau
• H-CivWar
• Penn State Univerisity: PA’s newspapers from Civil War Era
• National Archives
• National Park Service Soldiers and Sailors System
• Library of Congress Civil War Photographs
• Center for Civil War Photography
• Library of Congress Photographs by Mathew Brady
• Clara Barton & the Red Cross
• Provides information on those who served from Massachusetts
• Center for Archival Collection in Bowling Green, Ohio

Historical Museums & Locations

• Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
• Atlanta History Center
• Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History
• Laurel Hill, J.E.B. Birthplace
• U.S. National Parks Service
• Pamplin Park
• US Army Heritage and Education Center
• Michigan State University Civil War Collection
• Smyrna, Georgia, Civil War Collection
• Fort Moultrie
• McDuffie Museum (great collection of period documents - click here.)

Resources for Educators

• Civil War educational links
• Smithsonian Home Page
• Smithsonian Lesson Plans
• Civil War links for Teachers
• Provides a bibliography of suggested readings
• Civil War Lesson Plans and Additional Links
• America's Story from America's Library
• NPS Focus Group Report: African American Attitudes
• African American Troops in the Civil War
• A Soldier's Civil War Diary
• "The Civil War in America" Special LOC Exhibit
• Clara Barton
• Interactive map/timeline
• History Simulation Tools for Teachers

Additional Links

• Civil War Artifact Preservation Association
• Civil War Traveler
• Georgia Humanities Council
• The Civil War Home Page Search Engine
• The American Civil War Homepage
• American Civil War.com