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

• Civil War Audio Links: