Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 10/14/2008
From 1861-1865, Americans battled over preserving their Union and ending slavery. The Civil War is the focus of this section of The Price of Freedom: Americans at War, an online exhibition. This pivotal and complicated period of American history is divided into sections that allow students to focus either on a specific aspect of the war, or the conflict as a whole. The sections included are: John Brown, Fort Sumter, the Battle of Bull Run, major turning points, the war at sea, Wilderness to Appomattox, political leaders, military leaders, soldiers in blue and gray; battles and casualties and Reconstruction and the legacies of the war. A non-flash version of this site is available: The Civil War.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education, Thematic approach
Photographs can be powerful connections to the past. Soldiers, for example often had their portra...
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Meet Robert Smalls, a man who was born a slave, but made a daring escape and went on to become a...
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