DISCUSSION TOPIC: CIVIL WAR
STARTING PLACES
History Place -- U.S. Civil War 1861-1865:
A concise time-line of the war's events.
A War To End Slavery: This is a brief overview from Freedom: A History of US, a multi-volume history designed for an adolescent audience. It may be neither in-depth nor hard-edged, but nonetheless provides a basic framework getting a handle on the chronology of the war. Click the ten small photo icons at the top of the page to access the different sections.
: More than 1,000
images from the American Memory site at the Library of Congress.
NEWS
Gene Thorp, "At Antietam, The Past Haunts The Present," Washington Post, October 25, 2007.
Teresa Mendez,
"At Gettysburg, A New Battle: Urban Sprawl,"
Christian Science Monitor, August 24, 2007.
Jacqueline Trescott, "Museum Shows Civil War From 3 Angles: Union, Confederate, African American Viewpoints Featured," Washington Post, October 15, 2006.
"U.S. Civil War 'Led To Ill Health," BBC News, February 7, 2006.
David Cannadine, "How The South Belatedly Won America's Civil War," BBC News Magazine, January 20, 2006.
Ken Shulman, "The Soul Of Resistance: Civil War Parallels In US And Iraq," Christian Science Monitor, August 21, 2005.
Edward Epstein, "Gettysburg's Enduring Grip On Nation's Imagination: Tragic Lore Still Pervades Battlefield," San Francisco Chronicle, July 4, 2004.
Mark Jenkins, "Gettysburg: From Battlefield To Civil War Shrine," National Geographic News, July 14, 2003.
Yancey Hall, "U.S. Civil War Prison Camps Claimed Thousands," National Geographic News, July 1, 2003.
Tom O'Brien, "A Turning Point In The Civil War," Christian Science Monitor, June 5, 2003.
Rick DelVecchio, "Battle To Save A Few Blood-Drenched Acres: Civil War Buffs, Soldiers' Families Fight To Save Site Of Tragic Campaign From Sprawl," San Francisco Chronicle, November29, 2002.
Janet Williams,
"Civil War Marker Sparks New Conflict,"
BBC News, May 6, 2002.
Georgia I. Hesse, "Gettysburg Remembrances: A Somber Tour Of America's Killing Fields," San Francisco Examiner, July 7, 1996.
ARTICLES
Jay Tolson, "The Man Who Would Shape The Future Of War," U.S. News And World Report (July 2, 2007).
Gervase Phillips, "Was The American Civil War The First Modern War?," History Review (December 2006): 28-33.
Randall Miller et al., "Lincoln: The Constitution And The Civil War," Journal of American History, 93 (December 2006):805-808.
Harold Holzer, "Prelude To Gettysburg," American Heritage (July 2006 Supplement): 2-23.
Grant Wicker, "Upon The Altar Of The Nation: A Moral History Of The American Civil War," Christian Century, 123 (May 30, 2006): 28-33.
Joshua Wolf Shenk, "The True Lincoln," Time (June 26, 2005).
John Stauffer, "Across The Great Divide," Time (June 26, 2005).
Jeff Chu, "Loathing Abe Lincoln," Time (June 26, 2005).
Adam Goodheart,
"Civil War Battlefields: Saving The Landscape Of America's Deadliest War,"
National Geographic (April 2005).
Steve Lopez, "Ghosts Of The South," Time (April 30, 2001).
Andrew Ward, "They Brought The Jubilee," American Heritage, 51 (July/August 2000).
WEB-SITES
Valley Of The
Shadow: A
remarkable web-site that uses primary documents to explore the impact of the
Civil War upon two individual counties, one in Pennsylvania and one in
Virginia.
Antietam National Battlefield: The National Park Service web-site for the important Maryland battle.
Gettysburg National Military Park: The National Park Service web-site for the war's climactic battle.
AUDIO SOURCES