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Teacher Resources

The Civil War Preservation Trust is including this list of resources as a service to teachers. The Trust has no control over the contents of the websites listed here except our own, http://www.civilwar.org.

Civil War Sites:

Battle Summaries from Civil War Sites Commission Report
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/abpp.html

Civil War Women Archival Collection of Duke University
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html

Jewish-American History, Jews in the Civil War
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1867/jewish.htm

Letters from an Iowa Civil War Soldier
http://www.ucsc.edu/civil-war-letters/home.html

Library of Congress (do a search for Civil War and get many interesting things from photos to oral histories)
http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

Maine State Archives Civil War Page
http://www.state.me.us/sos/arc/archives/military/civilwar/
civilwar.htm

Making of America Digital Library
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa

National Park Service Links to the Past
http://www.cr.nps.gov/

Valley of the Shadows
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow.html

United States Civil War Center
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/civlink.htm

Abraham Lincoln Research Site
http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html

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Teacher Resources:

Blue Web'n
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

Busy Teachers' Website
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/BusyT/toc.html

Camp Grinnell - Civil War Living History in Grinnell, Iowa
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/campgrinnell

Computer Learning Foundation
http://www.thejournal.com

Edsitement
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us

Education World
http://www.education-world.com/

Impact II-The Teachers Network
http://www.teachnet.org

National Archives Digital Classroom
http://www.nara.gov/education/classrm.html

National History Day
http://www.Thehistorynet.com/NationalHistoryDay/

National Park Service's The Learning Place
http://www.nps.gov/interp/learn.htm

Tech Corps
http://www.techcorps.org/resources/index.html

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Here are a few phone numbers, if your mouse gives out and you have to turn to more traditional methods of communication:

• Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network 501-450-1727
  
• The Center for the Study of Southern Culture 601-232-5993
  
• The Civil War Education Association 703-678-8598
  
• Cobblestone Publishing, Inc. 603-924-7209
  
• Educational Technology 1-800-952-2665
  
• The History Channel 212-210-9780
  
• Library of Congress 202-707-5000
  
• National Archives 202-501-5400
  
• National Council for History Education 216-835-1776
  
• National Council for the Social Studies 202-966-7840
  
• National Foundation for the Improvement of Education 202-822-7840
  
• National Genealogical Society 703-525-0050
  
• National Park Service Resources:
  American Battlefield Protection Program 202-343-3941
  National Register of Historic Places 202-343-9536
  Parks as Classrooms 202-785-4500
  PARTNERS Project 304-535-6767
  Teaching With Historic Places 202-343-9536
  
• Smithsonian Institution 202-357-1300
  
• United States Army Center of Military History 202-761-5373
  
• United States Civil War Center 504-522-3328

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