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Civil War Era Topics for Research Projects
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Internet Public Library
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Smithsonian Institute
You can search from within this resource.
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Tennessee Electronic Library
(Password: elvis) Variety of resources on most topics!!
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Anything you ever wanted to know about the Civil War
Covers MOST topics on the Civil War Era
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American Civil War Page
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Eyewitness to History
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Links to all kinds of topics, including Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Another Civil War page
Site put together by college; has great resources/links!!
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Civil War Women
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More Civil War Women
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Civil War links list
People
Abraham Lincoln
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Bio of Lincoln
Whitehouse site
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Abe Lincoln Research Site
written by former history teacher--lots of research links off this page!
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Library of Congress
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The History Place
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Abraham Lincoln Institute
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Assassination of Lincoln
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The Death of Lincoln
Norbert Rillieux
Red Cloud
Charlotte Forten
Crazy Horse
Daniel Webster
Harriet Tubman
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Bio of Harriet Tubman
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More Harriet Tubman
site from PBS
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One more
John C. Calhoun
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John Calhoun
from Americana Brittanica
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John Calhoun
Kansas History
Dred Scott
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Bio of Dred Scott
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Dred Scott site
Be sure to check out "Additional Resources"
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Dred Scott Decision
Lots of interesting facts!
Battles
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Battle of Murfreesboro
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Battle of Stones River
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Civil War Battles
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Civil War Page
ANYTHING you ever wanted to know about the Civil War!!
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American Civil War Page
Stones River Battle Info
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Battles of Civil War
Check out the links on the left (battles are listed)
Events, etc.
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Civil War Page
ANYTHING you ever wanted to know about the Civil War!!
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Election of 1860
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Top Five Causes of Civil War
Be sure to check out the other links to topics.
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Several Events listed on this page, including Causes of Civil War
Special Interest Projects
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Civil War Uniforms
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Underground Railroad
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Primary Sources, etc.
Be sure to look at the links on the right!
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Civil War Page
ANYTHING you ever wanted to know about the Civil War!!
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Negro Leagues Info
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Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Be sure to look through the glossary for links to resources and also, use the toolbar at the top to find other resources!!
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Negro Leagues Baseball Museum2
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Jim Crow Laws
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Nurses in the Civil War
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Nurses during Civil War
Be sure to scroll down to find various paragraphs about some of the more famous Civil War nurses
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National Museum of Civil War Medicine
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Civil War letters
Primary Source
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Civil War music
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More Civil War music
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Poetry & Music of the War Between the States
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Civil War Uniforms
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Union uniforms
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Confederate Uniforms
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Civil War food
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Civil War Food--What the Union and Conferate Soldiers Ate
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Civil War food
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Railroads & the Civil War
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Pictures of Railroads
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Critical Role of Railroads
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The Negro Soldier and Reconstruction
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54th Massachusetts
Lots of links off this page! May need to turn down sound!
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Confederate States of America
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Civil War Era clothing/fashion
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Period Fashion & Fabrics
women's clothing
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More Civil War Era clothing
lots of pictures with years popular
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Era Clothing
Be sure to scroll down to the bottom for other links!
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Black Soldiers in WW II
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Life of a Civil War Soldier
All kinds of information on how a soldier lived!!
Special Permission Projects
States, Countries, Cities
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Awesome Library
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Reference & Periodicals
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People & Places
from KidCyber--great pics!
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GeoBee Challenge
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National Geographic
Photography--click on 'Travel'
States
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50 States, etc.!
Links to all kinds of information on the 50 states, as well as, Commonwealths & Territories -
The Fifty States-InfoPlease
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NetState
More information & trivia about states!
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Welcome to Stately Knowledge!
Internet Public Library: Kidspace
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State and Local Government Information
Library of Congress information on states
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Grolier Online
See teacher for username & password
Countries
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Countries of the World-InfoPlease
Everything you ever wanted to know about countries of the world!
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Countries of the World
An open window on world cultures
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Altapedia
Countries of the World, World Maps, Class Resources
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Geographic.Org
Geographic information about countries around the world
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Portals to the World
from the Library of Congress
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Grolier Online
See teacher for username & password
Cities
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Cities Around the World
Zoomable viewer of cities around the world
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Cities Around the World
presents over 6,100 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographical Society Library.
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Directory of Cities on the 'net'
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Time and Date
World Clock--time zones around the world
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The Best and most Informative Site about Cities of the world
Directory of all major cities of the world
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City Guides
List of major world cities
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Grolier Online
See teacher for username & password
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Digital Collection of Cities and Buildings