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Library of Congress Civil War Classroom Material

Library of Congress Civil War Classroom Material

Abraham Lincoln: Rise to National Prominence
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring Abraham Lincoln and his national role. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions. Speeches, correspondence, campaign materials and a map documenting the free and slave states in 1856 chronicle Lincoln’s rise to national prominence.

The Civil War: The Nation Moves Towards War, 1850-61
Conflict between abolition and slavery marked the 1850s, preceding the election of 1860 and the attack on Fort Sumter that started the Civil War. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and secession in maps, newspapers, political cartoons and song sheets.

After Reconstruction
Students use Library of Congress primary sources to identify problems and issues facing African Americans immediately after Reconstruction.

Civil War Images: Depictions of African Americans in the War Effort
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the ways in which African Americans were depicted in the Civil War effort. This set also includes a Teachers Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.

Civil War Music
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring historical perspectives about the American Civil War. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.

Civil War Photographs: What Do You See?
Students use Library of Congress primary sources to examine the Civil War and American industrialization.

Civil War Photographs: New Technologies and New Uses
Photographs that help to document the photographic technologies used during the Civil War. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.

Civil War Photographs: The Mathew Brady Bunch
Students use Library of Congress primary sources to examine Civil War photographs as primary sources.

Civil War Photojournalism: A Record of War
Students use Library of Congress primary sources to explore how and why war has been photographed and also see the bias within the recording/reporting of war.

Civil War Soldiers' Portraits: The Liljenquist Family Collection
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the Civil War portraits in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress. This set also includes a Teacher s Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.

The Civil War Through a Child's Eye
Students use Library of Congress primary sources to examine the Civil War from a child's perspective.