Additional Teacher and Student Civil War Curriculum Resources

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These resources can help you prepare educators for teaching their Civil War unit and can also help students with their essays, projects, and homework. 

1. Glossaries
2. Worksheets and teaching resources
3. Articles
4. Biographies
5. Videos
6. Virtual Tours
7. Mobile Apps
8. Quizzes

GLOSSARIES

• Glossary of 18^th and 19^th Century Political Terms
• Glossary of Civil War Terms
• Glossary of Fortification Terms
• Calvary Glossary
• Naval Glossary
• A Glossary of Small Arms

WORKSHEETS AND TEACHING RESOURCES

• National Archives Document Analysis Worksheets
• Primary Document Collection
• Virginia Center for Digital History (For Virginia SOL’s, but useful for other states.)

ARTICLES

This small selection of articles is only a fraction of the articles that the Trust has produced. For more please reference: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles

OVERVIEW OF THE CIVIL WAR

• A Brief Overview of the American Civil War
• Civil War Facts
• The Road to Emancipation

LEADING TO THE CIVIL WAR

• Bleeding Kansas
• John Brown’s War
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• Slavery and other Domestic Challenges of Western Expansion
• Slavery in the United States
• The Caning of Charles Sumner
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debate
• The Missouri Compromise
• The Nullification Crisis
• The Reasons for Secession
• The Wilmot Proviso
• Trigger Events of the American Civil War

THE MILITARY IN THE CIVIL WAR

• Bennet Place Surrender
• Civil War Casualties
• Civil War Medicine
• Damn the Torpedoes!
• Death and Burial: Guideposts to Gettysburg’s Dead
• Fort Wagner and the 54^th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
• Georgeanna Woolsey: A Day in the Life of a Northern Nurse
• Guerilla Warfare
• Life of a Civil War Soldier in Battle
• Life of a Civil War Soldier in Camp
• Life of a Civil War Soldier in the Army
• Petersburg: The Wearing Down of Lee’s Army
• Post War Lives
• The Atlanta Campaign
• The Navies of the Civil War
• The Overland Campaign  
• The United States Colored Troops
• To the Bitter End
• Why Non-Slaveholding Southerners Fought

CIVILIAN LIFE IN THE CIVIL WAR

• A House Divided: Civil War Kentucky
• Children of the Civil War
• Evidence for the Un-Popular Mr. Lincoln
• Music of the 1860s
• Saida Bird: A Day in the Life of a Southern Child

BIOGRAPHIES

This small selection of biographers is only a fraction of biographers that the Trust has produced. For more please reference: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies

MILITARY

UNION

• Albert Cashier (Jennie Hodgers)
• Ambrose Everett Burnside
• David G. Farragut
• George B. McClellan
• George G. Meade
• James B. McPherson
• Jonathan Letterman
• Mary Edwards Walker
• Sarah Emma Edmonds
• Sarah Rosetta Wakeman
• Ulysses S. Grant
• William Harvey Carney
• William T. Sherman

CONFEDERATE

• A.P. Hill
• Edward O.C. Ord
• George E. Pickett
• J.E.B Stuart
• James Longstreet
• Joseph E. Johnston
• Loreta Janeta Velazquez
• Nathan Bedford Forrest
• Robert E. Lee
• Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson

CIVILIAN

      UNION

• Abraham Lincoln
• Alexander Gardner
• Charles Sumner
• Clara Barton
• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Tubman
• John Brown
• Joseph E. Johnston
• Mary Jane Richards
• Thaddeus Stevens
• William Henry Seward

      CONFEDERATE

• Jefferson Davis
• Alexander Stephens
• John Wilkes Booth
• Maria “Belle” Boyd
• Loreta Janeta Velazquez
• Rose O’Neal Greenhow

OTHERS

• Andrew Johnson
• James Buchanan
• Lucretia Mott
• Pauline Cushman
• Mary Virginia “Jennie” Wade
• John C. Calhoun
• Henry Clay

VIDEOS

This small selection of videos is only a fraction of the videos that the Trust has produced. For more please reference: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/videos or check out our Vimeo and YouTube channels.

ANIMATED MAPS

• The Civil War Animated Map
• 1861 The Gathering Storm Animated Map
• 1862 The Long Road Ahead Animated Map
• 1863 The Shifting Tides Animated Map
• 1864 The Year of Decision Animated Map 
• The Battle of Antietam Animated Map
• The Battle of Shiloh Animated Map 
• The Siege of Vicksburg Animated Map
• The Battle of Gettysburg Animated Map
• Overland Campaign Animated Map

YOUR STATE IN THE CIVIL WAR

• Alabama in the Civil War
• Arkansas in the Civil War
• California in the Civil War
• Connecticut in the Civil War
• Delaware in the Civil War
• Florida in the Civil War
• Georgia in the Civil War
• Indiana in the Civil War
• Iowa in the Civil War
• Kansas in the Civil War
• Kentucky in the Civil War
• Louisiana in the Civil War
• Maine in the Civil War
• Maryland in the Civil War
• Massachusetts in the Civil War
• Michigan in the Civil War
• Minnesota in the Civil War
• Mississippi in the Civil War
• Missouri in the Civil War
• New Hampshire in the Civil War
• New Jersey in the Civil War
• New York in the Civil War
• North Carolina in the Civil War
• Ohio in the Civil War
• Oregon in the Civil War
• Pennsylvania in the Civil War
• Rhode Island in the Civil War
• South Carolina in the Civil War
• Tennessee in the Civil War
• Texas in the Civil War
• Vermont in the Civil War
• Virginia in the Civil War
• West Virginia in the Civil War
• Wisconsin in the Civil War

IN4 VIDEOS

In4 videos detail aspects of the Civil War in 4 minutes or less.

• In4: The Election of 1864
• In4: The Battle of Gettysburg
• In4: The Battle of Antietam
• In4: The Emancipation Proclamation
• In4: Women of the Civil War
• In4: Civil War Myths
• In4: Stonewall Jackson
• In4: Richmond During the Civil War
• In4: Leadership During the Civil War
• In4: Reconstruction After the Civil War
• In4: Freedman and the Civil War
• In4: Logistics of the Civil War
• In4: Equipment of the Civil War
• In4: The Vicksburg Campaign
• In4: The Battle of Antietam
• In4: Flags of the Civil War
• In4: Union During the Civil War
• In4: Civil War Medicine
• In4: Eastern Theater of the Civil War
• In4: Soldier Life During the Civil War
• In4: The Gettysburg Address
• In4: Black Soldiers in the Civil War

Virtual Tours and Virtual Reality

Take your students on a field trip from the comfort of your classroom. Our 360-degree Virtual Tours allow students to virtually engage with historic sites around the country. Built-in graphics and text enhance the learning experience.

Experience Civil War warfare, as never before, with the American Battlefield Trust’s virtual reality series. This immersive storytelling approach will put you back in time as you navigate in 360 degrees how it may have looked, felt and sounded to be soldier.

Mobile Apps

Utilize technology in the classroom by having your students download our free Battle Apps. Developed by the American Battlefield Trust, and featuring leading historians, our free battle apps are a great marriage of technology and place-based learning.

Quizzes

Test your knowledge with our history quizzes.