Civil War Newspaper Project-Final Project

1 Teaching with Primary Sources—MTSU CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION LINKS Educator Resources Exhibitions, Collections of Pho- tographs and Maps Prints, Music, and Text-Based Primary Sources Additional Links from the Library of Congress, Resources for the Civil War Sesquicentennial Don’t forget to check out the “Top Ten” (1-page) summary version of this tool. EDUCATOR RESOURCES From the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area Web site: Heritage Area Teacher’s Guides Choose from several ready-to-print classroom activities on the Civil War, ranging from fun worksheets for younger students to primary source investigations for older students. For example:  Character cards and related activities: 17 pages in- cluding Musical Memory, Document Detective, and Investigative Journalist  Witnesses to Battle: Accounts of the Home Front, Part I and Part II  Letters Home: Two Perspectives From the Library of Congress Web site: Teachers Page: Themed Resources: Civil War One of the best places to start in any search; contains primary source sets, lesson plans, and other materials organized for teachers about the Civil War. For ex- ample:  Primary source set: Civil War Photographs: New Technologies and New Uses  Lesson plan: Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies  For Students: fun, short presentations and games especially geared towards students From the Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU Web site: Civil War Resources Web page One-stop shop for all the Civil War-related primary sources, lesson plans & activities, newsletters, and other resources produced by TPS-MTSU, as well as links to Civil War materials from outside sources. For example:  Lesson plan: Voting Rights in the Reconstruction Era  Primary source set: Reconstruction  Content resource: Soldiers’ Lives during the Civil War Benjamin Singleton, and S.A. McClure, Leaders of the Exodus, leaving Nashville, Tennessee. Photomural from montage. [n.d.] pp. 1-2 p. 3 p. 4 p. 5 http://www.loc.gov/teachers/ http://library.mtsu.edu/tps/tools/Civil_War_Links--Top_Ten.pdf http://www.tncivilwar.org http://www.tncivilwar.org http://www.tncivilwar.org/research_resources/heritage_ed http://www.sitemason.com/files/iTCjgQ/Character%20Cards%20and%20Related%20Activities.pdf http://www.sitemason.com/files/hlW9j2/Witnesses%20to%20Battle%20Activity.pdf http://www.sitemason.com/files/e4Usgg/Nashville%20Addition%20to%20Witnesses%20to%20Battle.pdf http://www.sitemason.com/files/bTyETK/Letters%20Home%20Activity%202.pdf http://www.loc.gov/ http://www.loc.gov/ http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/civil-war/ http://loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/civil-war-photographic-technologies/ http://loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/civil-war-photographic-technologies/ http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/women-cw/ http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/women-cw/ http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/civil-war/students.html http://library.mtsu.edu/tps http://library.mtsu.edu/tps/civilwar.php http://library.mtsu.edu/tps/lessonplans&ideas/Lesson_Plan--Voting_Rights_in_the_Reconstruction_Era.pdf http://library.mtsu.edu/tps/lessonplans&ideas/Lesson_Plan--Voting_Rights_in_the_Reconstruction_Era.pdf http://library.mtsu.edu/tps/sets/Primary_Source_Set--Reconstruction.pdf http://library.mtsu.edu/tps/Soldier_Lives.pdf http://library.mtsu.edu/tps/Soldier_Lives.pdf http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/images/leaders.jpg http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam009.html#obj8 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam009.html#obj8 2 More educator resources from the Library of Congress Web site: Library of Congress Blogs Stories and teaching strategies from Library staff on a variety of interesting Library holdings, good for brief content; search “Civil War” within each of the Library’s blogs for more entries  Teaching with the Library of Congress blog:  “Civil War Photography: New Technologies and New Uses, a Teacher Primary Source Set”  “Choosing Civil War Photos from the Liljenquist Family Collection: Selecting Nee- dles in a Fascinating Haystack”  “Civil War Sketch Artists: Pencils on the Front Lines”  Voices of the Civil War blog:  Lewis Henry Douglass, “I must bid you fare- well should I be killed”  Varina Davis, “As he strode off I threw over his head a little black shawl”  Library of Congress blog:  “Civil War Chic”  Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business blog:  “Civil War Sesquicentennial: Prices & Salaries” America’s Story from America’s Library Fun, interactive, and informative stories geared towards grades 3-5 (but good for everybody)  Jump Back in Time: Civil War  Meet Amazing Americans:  Abraham Lincoln  Frederick Douglass  Harriet Tubman Today in History Stories, primary sources, and links about events that occurred on each day of the year; search “Civil War” in the archive for additional stories  June 8: Tennessee Secedes  December 16: The Battle of Nashville  December 29: The 17th President (Andrew John- son)  November 23: The Battle of Chattanooga Web Guide: Primary Documents in American History: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860- 1877 Selection of ten documents from the highlighted era with links and bibliography Hidden Treasures Brief video clips, created in partnership with the History Channel, that tell stories from history using Library of Congress documents and artifacts  Watch a President Age (Lincoln’s life masks) 1min 48sec  Mapmaking...on Horseback (Hotchkiss Confederate maps) 2min 35sec  How a President Learned to Write (Lincoln’s gram- mar book) 2min 25sec  The Most Wanted Man in America (John Wilkes Booth) 2min 43sec  The Union Sends a Message (Siege of Vicksburg) 3min 1sec  What Was in Lincoln’s Pockets? (Lincoln assassina- tion) 2min 21sec  273 Words to a New America (Gettysburg Address) 2min 59sec The TPS Journal: The Civil War Across Disci- plines, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter 2012) Civil War-themed issue of quarterly newsletter from the nationwide TPS program, with content contributed by TPS-MTSU Primary Source Investigation: Civil War Mini primary source sets from the Song of America Pro- ject; topics include the Confederacy, the Union, Walt Whitman, and Harriet Beecher Stowe American Memory Timeline: Civil War and Re- construction, 1861-1877 Narrative overview of different aspects of the war, with a brief selection of documents (largely interviews from the 1930s) to illustrate each aspect Mapmaking...on Horseback [at 2min 22sec] http://www.loc.gov/ http://blogs.loc.gov/ http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2015/05/civil-war-photography-new-technologies-and-new-uses-a-teacher-primary-source-set-from-the-library-of-congress/ http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2015/05/civil-war-photography-new-technologies-and-new-uses-a-teacher-primary-source-set-from-the-library-of-congress/ http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2013/10/choosing-civil-war-photos-from-the-liljenquist-family-collection-selecting-needles-in-a-fascinating-haystack/ http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2013/10/choosing-civil-war-photos-from-the-liljenquist-family-collection-selecting-needles-in-a-fascinating-haystack/ http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2013/10/choosing-civil-war-photos-from-the-liljenquist-family-collection-selecting-needles-in-a-fascinating-haystack/ http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2011/06/civil-war-sketch-artists-pencils-on-the-front-lines/ http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2011/06/civil-war-sketch-artists-pencils-on-the-front-lines/ http://blogs.loc.gov/civil-war-voices/about/lewis-henry-douglass/ http://blogs.loc.gov/civil-war-voices/about/lewis-henry-douglass/ http://blogs.loc.gov/civil-war-voices/about/varina-davis/ http://blogs.loc.gov/civil-war-voices/about/varina-davis/ http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2013/05/civil-war-chic/ http://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2011/10/civil-war-sesquicentennial-prices-salaries/ http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_subj.html http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/lincoln/aa_lincoln_subj.html http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/douglass/aa_douglass_subj.html http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/tubman/aa_tubman_subj.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun08.html#tennessee http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec16.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec29.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec29.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov23.html http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/CivilWarRecon.html http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/CivilWarRecon.html http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/CivilWarRecon.html http://www.loc.gov/collections/hidden-treasures-at-the-library-of-congress/about-this-collection/ http://www.loc.gov/item/myloc14 http://www.loc.gov/item/myloc9 http://www.loc.gov/item/myloc15 http://www.loc.gov/item/myloc11 http://www.loc.gov/item/myloc4 http://www.loc.gov/item/myloc16 http://www.loc.gov/item/myloc6 http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/journal/civilwar/ http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/journal/civilwar/ http://www.loc.gov/creativity/hampson/workshop/civilwar.html http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/civilwar/civilwar.html http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/civilwar/civilwar.html http://myloc.gov/Multimedia/HotchkissMap.aspx 3 Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints Incredible collection of over 7000 images of various scenes and people taken during the Civil War; from the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog  “Solving a Civil War Photograph Mystery”: fasci- nating examination of how photographs could be altered in the days before PhotoShop! Brady-Handy Collection Civil War photographs from the studio of Mathew Brady and Levin Handy; mostly portraits Photographs of African Americans During the Civil War: A List of Images in the Civil War Pho- tograph Collection Selected images of African Americans during the Civil War (especially in Virginia), organized into six catego- ries ranging from soldiers to contrabands to naval scenes Civil War Maps Thousands of printed and hand-drawn maps made dur- ing the war; mostly Union; many of various Tennessee towns, regions, and topographical features  “History of Mapping the Civil War”: detailed, multi -part essay full of contextual information The Hotchkiss Map Collection: Confederate Army Maps Maps made by Jedediah Hotchkiss for the Confederate Army during the war; mainly depicting the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia (none from Tennessee) EXHIBITIONS The Civil War in America Exhibition to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, with over 200 primary source documents and artifacts covering myriad points of view  Follow the timeline through primary sources With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lin- coln Bicentennial Exhibition In-depth look at Lincoln’s life and experiences; this exhibition also contains interactive features African American Odyssey Special exhibition containing narrative and images about the African American experience from different eras of U.S. history  See Civil War section & Reconstruction section Gettysburg Address Exhibition examining the Gettysburg Address and relat- ed documents American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Memory Gallery B Multi-part exhibition telling the story of slavery, seces- sion, Lincoln’s assassination, etc., through images  A Civil War Sketch Artist: brief exhibit about Al- fred Waud and his sketches of Civil War engage- ments (largely in Virginia) COLLECTIONS OF PHOTOGRAPHS & MAPS Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photo- graphs More than 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs de- picting named and unnamed Union (including US Col- ored Troops) and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War  Civil War Faces: Liljenquist Collection on Flickr  Also view in slideshow  The Last Full Measure: Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection: exhibition with feature essays and special presentations Civil War page from the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog Special page where you can search among several collec- tions in Prints & Photographs for Civil War-related sources Panorama of the Mississippi Valley : and its fortifications / [1863?; detail] http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/ http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/mystery.html http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/brhc/ http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/081_cwaf.html http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/081_cwaf.html http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/081_cwaf.html http://www.loc.gov/collection/civil-war-maps/about-this-collection/ http://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-war-maps/articles-and-essays/history-of-mapping-the-civil-war/ http://www.loc.gov/collection/hotchkiss-maps/about-this-collection/ http://www.loc.gov/collection/hotchkiss-maps/about-this-collection/ http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/civil-war-in-america/pages/default.aspx http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-war-in-america/special-presentation.html http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lincoln/ http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lincoln/ http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lincoln/special-presentations.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart4.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5.html http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gettysburg-address/ http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr11b.html http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr11b.html http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm041.html http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/ http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157625520211184/ http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/slidelilj/ http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-war-photographs/ http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-war-photographs/ http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/civwar/ http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/civwar/ http://www.loc.gov/item/85695690 4 The Library of Congress Presents the Songs of America Collection of song recordings and sheet music, with an essay on songs of War and Conflict; a graphic Mapping the Songs of the Civil War state-by-state search; an in- teractive timeline for 1850-1899; and music video-like illustrated sound recordings, four of which pertain to the Civil War:  “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (3min 54sec)  “Booth killed Lincoln” (3min 7sec)  “The iron Merrimac” (2min 16sec)  “The last fierce charge” (5min 23sec) Charles Wellington Reed Papers, 1776 to 1926 Letters, sketches, articles, and other memorabilia from a Massachusetts soldier in the Civil War; sketches and writings in particular highlight the experiences of the common soldier A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Se- lections