THIST 410 Early American Politics and Law: The Civil War Era, 1819-1896: Primary Resources on the Web

The exhibit "explores the institution of slavery, the fierce sectionalism of free and slave economies in the rapidly expanding county, and the destructive power of the Civil War." The exhibit is replete with images and includes a narrative written by Eric Foner.

Goal of this project is to " bring together digital versions of documents, images, and music related to Abraham Lincoln's life in Illinois."

First release of 2,200 documents from the General Correspondence series. This series includes "incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and printed material." Part of American Memory.

Site exploring Lee as an icon of "devotion, humility, self-sacrifice, reserve, gentlemanliness, Christian character, acceptance of defeat, moderation." See also a small collection of Lee papers at Washington and Lee University.

"The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government" from all historical periods.

Collection of more than 1000 Civil War photographs held by the Library of Congress. Part of the American Memory project. For other images see Civil War Images of Northern Virginia and Civil War Image Portfolio at the American Memory Project.

Collection of photographs, drawings, posters and a small selection of letters from the collections of the New York Historical Society. Part of the American Memory project.

Links to primary sources dealing with women in the Civil War including letters, diaries and photographs. Also includes a bibliography of Duke University holdings on the topic.

Digitized version of the printed set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings.

Wake Forest's digitized collection of 250 Confederate broadside poems written by southerners and southern sympathizers.

"Crisis at Fort Sumter is an interactive historical simulation and decision making program. Using text, images, and sound, it reconstructs the dilemmas of policy formation and decision making in the period between Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860 and the battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861."

"This collection is comprised of pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880.

Small collection of documents and images dealing with the Confederate ship includes selections from the ship's log, articles from contemporary magazines and letters.

Ambitious project from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to present "primary sources documenting the culture of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners." Includes diaries, slave narratives, and images.

Digitized collection of thousands of anti-slavery and abolitionist material from Cornell University.

Library of Congress exhibit includes various drafts of the Gettysburg Address.

"This site contains the full text of 57 sermons published on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. The original copies of the sermons have been drawn from the Pitts Theology Library" at Emory University.

Ongoing project to produce a multimedia historical database on the impact of the Civil War on two towns. Includes military records, census data, diaries, photographs and newspapers.