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Causes of the Civil War: Document-Based Questions - scaffold questions using historical documents and primary sources to support the 5th grade social studies performance standards and assessments.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