Teaching with Civil War Documents
Primary Sources and Online Activities
Find Activities about the Civil War and Reconstruction Era
Choose a Topic to Find Documents from the Civil War Era
More Civil War Resources from the National Archives
- Visit the website for the Discovering the Civil War exhibition.
- Teach with Civil War lesson plans.
- Visit the Mathew Brady Civil War Photographs collection on Flickr.
- See more Civil War records in the Archival Research Catalog.
- Find information on researching Civil War military records.
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