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"But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." |
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The Civil War and events leading to it impacted our nation in a way that continues to have lasting effects. The following Web Sites offer resources and activities related to our course of study for this term: Activists & Reformers: Jane Addams, Rachel Carson, ... Harriet Tubman. They struggled for change to make America a better place for all. History of Women's Suffrage - Women's History: Changing social conditions for women during the early 1800's combined with the idea ... Two reformers, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton... Underground Railroad - History of Slavery, Pictures, Information: You are a slave in Maryland in the 1800s. Can you escape? Learn what challenges slaves faced in National Geographic's Underground Railroad adventure. Africans in America - This is a companion site to the PBS series tracing the struggle against slavery. Crisis at Fort Sumter - This site offers great content but also short video clips and music selections like Lincoln's campaign song. The American Civil War Homepage - This site provides biographies and information on the battles and the military. You can also access music, period newspapers, maps, and lots more. Freedmen and Emancipation - Drawing upon the rich resources of the National Archives of the United States, this collection of documents helps o explain how black people traversed the bloody ground from slavery to freedom between the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 and the beginning of Radical Reconstruction in 1867. The documents vividly speak for themselves, and interpretive essays by the editors provide historical context. Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture - This website from the University of Virginia presents a vast multimedia archive
of primary material, 1830 to 1930, organized around Harriet Beecher Stowe's
seminal work. The primary source materials do give both opposing and favorable views on slavery and the enslaved people. Since these views are accurate representations of the time, many of these views are controversial and represent African Americans in ways that are unacceptable today. Valley of the Shadow - Multimedia sources examine two communities during the Civil War, one northern and one southern. |