Grade 5

CIVIL WAR
videos and images you can use: http://www.neok12.com/American-Civil-War.htm

Battles and fighting

          The Battle of Gettysburg
        http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/battle.htm
        http://americancivilwar.com/getty.html
        http://americancivilwar.com/kids_zone/gettysburg_battle.html

          Civil war weapons 
         http://www.civilwarartillery.com/
        http://165.29.91.7/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/weapons/CIVIL~1.

          War in the navy
          http://www.wideopenwest.com/~jenkins/ironclads/ironintr.htm
          http://americancivilwar.com/tcwn/civil_war/naval_submarine.html

Specific People

         Abraham Lincoln
         http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln/

         Fredrick Douglass
        http://americancivilwar.com/colored/frederick_douglass.html
        http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/home.html

        Sojourner Truth
        http://www.civilwarhome.com/truthbio.htm
         http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/trut-soj.htm

        Clara Barton
        http://americancivilwar.com/women/cb.htm

        Harriet Tubman
        http://americancivilwar.com/women/harriet_tubman.html

         Robert E.Lee
         http://americancivilwar.com/south/lee.html
         http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/netscape/people/lee.html  
          http://www.imahero.com/herohistory/robert_herohistory.htm

         Ulysses S. Grant
         http://americancivilwar.com/north/grant.html 
         http://www.imahero.com/herohistory/ulysses_herohistory.htm

         Harriet Beecher Stowe

        http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761569317/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe.html  
        http://americancivilwar.com/women/hbs.html

       Jefferson Davis
       http://americancivilwar.com/south/jeffdavi.html

       Dred Scott http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html

     John Brown
     http://afgen.com/john_brown1.html

Soldiers

      Boy soldiers 
      http://www.civilwarhome.com/boysinwar.htm

    The soldier’s life
      http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/usaHistory/CivilWar/CampLife.htm
       http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/usaHistory/CivilWar/Life.htm
       http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettkidz/hardtack.htm
       http://www.civilwarhome.com/camplife.htm

       Women of the battlefield
       http://americancivilwar.com/women/index.html
 
      Black soldiers
      http://memory.loc.gov/learn///features/timeline/civilwar/aasoldrs/soldiers.html    
      http://americancivilwar.com/colored/histofcoloredtroops.html

       Uniforms
        http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/usaHistory/CivilWar/Uniforms.htm   
         http://www.memorialhall.mass.edu/activities/dressup/civil_war_soldier.html

Slavery

         What slavery was like
          http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/history.html

         Underground railroad
         http://americancivilwar.com/kids_zone/underground_railroad.html
      **  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/

         Map of Underground Railroad routes http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/map.htm

Other topics

            Women nurses
             http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/wworld/qt_hospital.html

          Women spies
           http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/spies.htm
                  Sarah Emma Edmonds
                  http://www.civilwarhome.com/edmondsbio.htm
                 Elizabeth Van Lew
                 http://www.civilwarhome.com/vanlewbio.htm

Doctors and medicine 
          http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/usaHistory/CivilWar/Hospitals.htm
         http://www.powerweb.net/bbock/war/medical.html
         http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettkidz/doctor.htm
          http://americancivilwar.com/kids_zone/civil_war_medicine.html  
          http://www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarmedicine.htm


Slavery

American Slave Narratives
Real interviews from ex-slaves accompanied by their photos