Civil War Archeology
NPS Archeology Program
- Archeology and History in Rock Creek Park
- Archeology at the U.S. Armory, Harpers Ferry NHP
- Archeological Investigations at Ulysses S. Grant NHS
- Archeology of Buffalo Soldiers and Apaches in the Southwest
- Fort Washington Yields Unusual Find
- "Wake Nicodemus:" African American Settlement on the Plains of Kansas
National Capitol Region: Regional Archeology Program
- African-American Households from Manassas National Battlefield Park
- Archeology at Antietam: The Effect of Battle on a Agrarian Landscape
- Lost, Tossed, and Found: Clues to African-American Life at Manassas National Battlefield Park
- To Be Public or Private: Changing Uses of Landscape at Sudley Post Office, 1840s-1920s
Midwest Archeological Center
Southeast Archaeological Center
- Archeology at Monroe's Crossroads, North Carolina
- Echoes from the Past: Archeology at Fort Pulaski, Georgia
- Remote Sensing at Shiloh National Military Park
Submerged Resources Center
Lesson Plans
- Lesson Plan Index: History Standards: Era 5
- Civil War to Civil Rights: From Pea Ridge to Central High (NPS)
- Teaching with Historic Places - Civil War (NPS)
- History Now. From the Teacher's Desk - New Interpretations of the Civil War
- Civil War Preservation Trust - Lesson Plans
- Abraham Lincoln on the American Union (NEH)
- African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War (NEH)
- American Civil War: A "Terrible Swift Sword" (NEH)
- The Battle Over Reconstruction (NEH)
- Homer's Civil War Veteran (NEH)
- Life in the North and South 1847-1861(NEH)
- Slave Narratives (NEH)
Podcasts
- Multimedia Resources from the Parks (NPS)
- Historians on Record (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
Teaching with Museum Collections
Arlington House - The Robert E. Lee Memorial
Clara Barton National Historic Site
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Gettysburg National Military Park
Hampton National Historic Site
Lincoln Home National Historic Site
- Lincoln's Legal Career
- Lincoln, The Candidate: The Taste is in My Mouth a Little
- Reminder of the Past, Lincoln Keepsakes
- The Abraham Lincoln Home in Springfield, IL
- Mary Todd Lincoln and the Boys
Vicksburg National Military Park
- Life Aboard the USS Cairo
- Naval Warfare during the Civil War
- The Army and Navy: Significant Factors in the Vicksburg Campaign
- The Siege of Vicksburg
- William T. Rigby and His Walking Cane
Virtual Museum Exhibits
- Museum Collections At the Rock: Alcatraz Island
- Gettysburg: Civil War Collections
- Robert E. Lee: Arlington House
- Symbols of Battle: Civil War Flags
- Vicksburg Siege and U.S.S. Cairo
Additional Resources
- "A House Divided"
- America's Reconstruction
- Civil War in the Lower Mississippi River Valley (NPS)
- Digital History: Online Textbook
- NPS History - Historical Themes in America - Civil War (NPS)
- University of Virginia Historical Census Browser: 1860
- War for Freedom: African Americans in the Era of the Civil War (NPS)
- Web Rangers: Civil War Soldier (NPS)
- Washington Court House High School (Ohio) - History Class
- Valley of the Shadow
Last updated: January 27, 2012