Online Resources

The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down  4:30  


Documentaries 

   (PBS video)  Ken Burns' Civil War doc (episode 1)

    (PBS Video)  Death and the American Civil War  (120 min)

   Mississippi's War:  Slavery and Secession  (58 min)
   
   Antietam

   Fredericksburg

   Gettysburg  (107 min)  

   Chickamauga  (55 min)

   The Overland Campaign  (22 min)

   Cold Harbor  (54 min)

   The Atlanta Campaign  (59 min)
     
    Sherman's Marches  (Georgia & the Carolinas)  (90 min)



Lectures and Interviews with Top Historians

    Yale Civil War Lecture Series (27 videos) Dr.  David Blight   (about 50 minutes each)  

    Civil War class by Gary Gallagher of the University of Virginia (90 - 120 min each)

       MOOC Talks with Eric Foner:  77 short talks on various Civil War Era topics (about 10 min each)

    W. Todd Groce - Rethinking Sherman's march to the Sea  (52 min)

    James McPherson, Harold Holzer, and John Marszalek - Round table discussion of Sherman's March through the Carolinas  (60 min)

    James McPherson:  Why Men Fought: North & South  (audiobook preview)  

       Michael F. Holt:  Dividing a Nation: The Origins of the Secession Crisis & the Civil War  (93 min)

    Burlingame, Michael:  Lincoln's Leadership During the Civil War  (42 min)

   Aaron Sheehan-Dean:  When West Virginians Remained Loyal  (65 min)

   Clay Mountcastle:  Confederate Guerillas and Union Reprisals   (55 min) 

   Buddy Sullivan:  The Burning of Darien, Ga  55 min

   Megan Kate Nelson: Ruins of Revenge: The Burning of Chambersburg Pa 

   Joseph Glatthaar:  Grant vs. Lee in 1864  (53 min)

    Joseph Glatthaar: Why the Confederacy Lost: The Experiences of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia  (54 min)

   Stephanie McCurry:  Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South  (58 min) 

   Stephanie McCurry: Antigone's Claim: Gender and Treason in the American Civil War  (75 min) 

   Nina Silver:  (Northern) Women and the American Civil War  (57 min)         

   Thavolia Gymph  Disappeared... Enslaved Women and the Armies of the Civil War  (65 min) 

   Mark Neely, Jr.  Lincoln, the Civil War, the Constitution  (1 hour 25 min)  

 

   John Barr (Loathing Lincoln) and Wm. Blair (With Malice Toward Some) (60 min) Parts 1,2,3,4.   

   Edward Baptist:  The Half has Never Been Told  (65 min)  

     Ira Berlin:  American Slavery in a Global Perspective  (42 min)

   Daniel Crofts:  "The Would-Be Thirteenth Amendment of March 1861"   (55 min) 

   Eric Foner:  Abraham Lincoln and Slavery  (55 min)

   Four Historians on Eric Foner's Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery  (125 min) 

   George Rable:  Was the Civil War a Holy War? (51 min) 

    George Rable:  The Civil War as a Political Crisis  (67 min)


Journal Articles

Foner, Eric. "The South's Inner Civil War"  American Heritage,  Vol 40, Issue 2, March 1989 

Marszalek, John.  "Scorched Earth: Sherman's March to the Sea"

Rhea, Gordon.  "Why Non-slaveholding Southerners Fought" 


Other Articles 

Groce, W. Todd.  "Rethinking Sherman's March"

Horton, James Oliver.  "Confronting Slavery and Revealing "The Lost Cause"" 

Basic Civil War Facts  (soldiers, deaths, POWs, etc)

List of states by admission date

Union Army
List of Union Generals
Confederate Army
List of Confederate Generals
Personal Weapons of the Civil War (swords, rifles, etc)
Field Artillery in the Civil War
Siege Weapons of the Civil War
Ironclad Warships

Demographics and Geography of Free Blacks...

George Stoneman's Failed Attempt to Relieve Andersonville Prison


Primary Sources  


    Websites:

           Southern Home Front 1861 -1865 primary sources @ Documenting the American South at UNC.

          Valley of the Shadow project (Shenandoah Valley documents) @ University of Virginia. 

         The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

          Abraham Lincoln Online

                    Lincoln Quotes on Slavery
                    Lincoln Quotes on Preserving Liberty
                    Lincoln Quotes regarding God & Christianity  
                    Lincoln Quotes on Perseverance



           Singular documents:

    The Published State Secession Declarations (S.C., Ga, Ms, Tx, Va)  
    Florida's Unpublished State Secession Declaration
    Alexander Stephens' Cornerstone Speech, March 21, 1861 (full text)
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    Abraham Lincoln speeches/addresses/letters:
    
        Lyceum Speech, 1838 
          Temperance Speech, 1842
          House Divided Speech, 1858
          Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
          Cooper Union Speech, 1860
          First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861  (full text)
          Gettysburg Address, November 19,1863
          Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865  (full text) 
           Lincoln's letter to James C. Conklin, August 25, 1863


Tariff rates and the secession crisis.