United States - History - Civil War - 1861-1865
Link Elementary School


What are Primary Sources? - students have to identify civil war primary and secondary sources and justify their answers.

National Geographic's The Underground Railroad - pretend your a runaway slave using the underground railroad to escape to Canada. Includes other useful information like timeline, resources, teacher's page and more.

Causes of the Civil War: Document-Based Questions - scaffold questions using historical documents and primary sources to support the 5th grade social studies performance standards and assessments.

Smithsonian Civil War 

The American Civil War Page 

American Civil War Sites - including primary sources

The Civil War For Kids - offers a timeline, graphs of resources, and student reports on Civil War leaders, as well as maps, flags, and activity sheets.

Civil War: The History Place

The Civil War - read short lessons about many topics and take a quiz for each one. Find timelines and ideas for activities too.

A Country Divided - links to Civil War letters, diaries, documents and more.

Civil War Stories from Harper's Weekly - primary source of news stories that appeared in Harper's Weekly during the Civil War.

Index of Civil War Information

Jump Back in time - take a trip to an era in American History


Selected Civil War Photographs - from the American Memory Library of Congress

Timeline of the Civil War - from the American Memory Library of Congress


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