The American Civil War: Web Sources

Using photographs, documents and state of the art audio visual equipment, the museum helps visitors understand the African American's heroic and largely unknown struggle for freedom. The museum is located two blocks west of the Memorial in the historic U street corridor. To assist visitors, researchers, and descendants of USCT, the Museum also offers important educational and research tools.

The American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) promotes the preservation of significant historic battlefields associated with wars on American soil. The ABPP focuses primarily on land use, cultural resource and site management planning, and public education.

"The American Battlefield Trust preserves America’s hallowed battlegrounds and educates the public about what happened there and why it matters."

The website for a touring exhibition from the Virginia Historical Society, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. With photographs, biographical information, and links to relevant articles and websites.

The National Park Service's sesquicentennial commemoration.

These pages link to selected collection content available online at the Library of Congress, arranged by broad categories. The Library's online content represents only a small percentage of its physical holdings.

A browse able collection of links organized by topic, designed to meet the needs of "historians, educators, reenactors, and the interested public". Contains links to a variety of Civil War resources, but emphasizes military information such as orders of battle, regimental histories, and battle summaries.

A listing of some of the primary sources related to Maryland's involvement in the Civil War.

Biographical information, including an online exhibit featuring digitized versions of Douglass's documents, via the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

A virtual museum with a large number of high quality images and biographical information on Frederick Douglass.

"Hidden Patterns of the Civil War" collects a number of interrelated projects on the sectional crisis, slavery, and emancipation during the Civil War era, with a particular emphasis on the histories of the city of Richmond and the state of Virginia. Grouped as "texts" and "maps," these projects use digital tools and digital media to uncover and represent patterns that are not easy to find when we look at particular pieces of evidence in isolation and only become evident when we visualize a wealt

"The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive of primary sources that document the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War."