Primary Source Learning: Civil War
Civil War photograph lessons & activities
- Devil in the Details: Examining Visual Material from the Civil War
- The Mathew Brady Bunch
- New Technologies and New Uses
- Using Sources: Civil War Photography Technology & Tricks
- What Do You See?
Learning from the Source lesson plans
- Gettysburg Address Game On
- Civil War Prison Experiences
- Geography & the Civil War
- Gettysburg Address Image Sequencing
- Perspectives in Civil War Song Sheets
- Primary Source Perspectives of the Civil War
- Where Do I Run to? Where Do I Hide?
Guided Primary Source Analyses
- Admiral Farragut Enters Mobile Bay map
- Has the war ruined the country? text/chart
- Jeff Davis Reaping the Harvest engraving/political cartoon
Collection Connections teaching strategies & activities
- Abraham Lincoln Papers
- Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
- Civil War Maps
- Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment
- Poet at Work: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Journals
- Selected Civil War Photographs
- Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865
More lesson ideas
- Civil War Photojournalism: A Record of War
- The Civil War Through a Child’s Eye
- The Inside Scoop: Civil War Prison Experiences
- Teaching Now: Integrating Literacy, History & Geography
- Teaching Now: Using Primary Sources with 21st-Century Learners
- What were the challenges to African American citizenship after the Civil War? Teaching with Primary Sources program at the University of California, Davis
- Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies
Teaching with the Library of Congress activity ideas
Primary source sets & teacher guides
- Abraham Lincoln: Rise to National Prominence
- Civil War Images: Depictions of African Americans in the War Effort
- Civil War Music
- Civil War Photographs: New Technologies and New Uses
- The Civil War: The Nation Moves Towards War, 1850-61
- Civil War & Reconstruction
- Civil War Soldiers’ Portraits: The Liljenquist Family Collection
Related resources
- Civil War primary sources
- Reconstruction guided primary source analyses
- The Carpet-bagger sheet music
- The constitutional amendment broadside
- Strong-Weak Government political cartoon
- Primary Source Learning: Slavery (U.S.)