Civil War and Reconstruction
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What Caused the Civil War
$3.00What Caused the Civil War The time was 4:30 in the morning; the day was April 12, 1861. Cannons from the mainland began to spew fire and lob shells into Fort Sumter--at this early hour just faintly visible on the horizon. America’s terrible Civil...$3.00 -
Making a Book about Washington D.C. During the Civil War
$8.00Making a Book about Washington D.C. During the Civil War An activity that combines process and content In 1861, Washington was a dusty, muddy city of a little over 50,000 inhabitants. Most Congressman and even the President fled the city at...$8.00 -
Interactive Image: The Massacre of New Orleans
$2.99This resource is a Google Form and Doc linked to an interactive image on the massacre of New Orleans in 1866. In July 1866, riots broke out in New Orleans when freedmen gathered to support extending the right to vote to African Americans. White mobs...$2.99 -
Interactive Gallery: Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction
$2.99This resource is a Google Form and Doc linked to an interactive gallery on President Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction. The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding...$2.99 -
Washington D.C. Peace Convention: February 4, 1861
$4.00Washington D.C. Peace Convention February 4, 1861 Could the Civil War have been prevented? On February 4, 1861 a “peace convention,” called by the Virginia legislature, assembled at the Willard Hotel in Washington D.C., the same day that...$4.00 -
Civil War Generals Most Effective or the Least Effective?
$4.00At the start of the American Civil War both the Union and the Confederacy an immediate problem of enlisting men into their respective armies and providing them with competent commanders. Many of the senior officers in both armies had their training...$4.00 -
Civil War Game
$4.00Most Civil War historians would agree that in order to win the war the North needed to carry the fight into the South. But the Southern commanders, especially General Robert E. Lee, believed that taking the fight into the North was the path to victory...$4.00 -
Summit: The Fort Laramie Treaty 1868
$5.00This is the third lesson of four about American wars and the treaties that settled those conflicts. We tend to think of peace negotiations as taking place after the end of a war, but in most cases peace discussions begin soon after the fighting starts...$5.00 -
Video Guide: Ken Burns The Civil War (complete series)
MSRP: $19.00$15.00Narrated by David McCulloch -- and featuring the voices of Sam Waterston, Morgan Freeman, Julie Harris, Laurence Fishburne, and George Plimpton -- Ken Burns' documentary on the Civil War is the definitive guide to this pivotal time in American history...MSRP: $19.00$15.00 -
Video Guide: Ken Burns The Civil War (Ep. 7)
$2.00Narrated by David McCulloch -- and featuring the voices of Sam Waterston, Morgan Freeman, Julie Harris, Laurence Fishburne, and George Plimpton -- Ken Burns' documentary on the Civil War is the definitive guide to this pivotal time in American history...$2.00 -
Video Guide: Ken Burns The Civil War (Ep. 4)
$2.00Narrated by David McCulloch -- and featuring the voices of Sam Waterston, Morgan Freeman, Julie Harris, Laurence Fishburne, and George Plimpton -- Ken Burns' documentary on the Civil War is the definitive guide to this pivotal time in American history...$2.00 -
Video Guide: The Civil War (Ep. 9)
$2.00Narrated by David McCulloch -- and featuring the voices of Sam Waterston, Morgan Freeman, Julie Harris, Laurence Fishburne, and George Plimpton -- Ken Burns' documentary on the Civil War is the definitive guide to this pivotal time in American history...$2.00