Brief Description Students select a photograph from the Civil War era and write a story that tells about the photograph. Objectives Students think critically about the composition of a photograph taken by Matthew Brady, the famous Civil War photographer. They use a graphic organizer to analyze the ...
Description This app allows you to view and search a collection of photos of the American Civil War, 1861 - 1865, at the Library of Congress and in the public domain. The images are from the original glass plate negatives made under the supervision of Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner plus...
Posts Tagged ‘American Civil War’ When Mary and Abraham Lincoln moved into the White House in 1861, Mary was 42 years old, a time when women her age dressed in somber grays, dull browns, and boring blues. But not Mary Todd Lincoln. For her, expensive clothes were a mark of importance...
well-written descriptions of the lives and everyday activities of ordinary Northern soldiers and sailors will help the reader understand daily life in the Union Army. The 118 black-and-white photos and images, largely from the Library of Congress, further illustrate the impact of the war ...
CIVIL WAR: AMERICA'S EPIC STRUGGLE features over 1,000 high-resolution photos many of them colorized, more than an hour of multimedia presentations, in excess o…
On September 14th, “3,500 leaguers, mostly Civil War veterans, overwhelmed an equal number of black militiamen and Metropolitan Police under the command of Confederate Gen. James Longstreet, and occupied the city hall, statehouse, and arsenal.” The insurrection ended when President Grant sent ...
We hope you find it useful and, together with the first two bibliographic books that preceded it, make your love of the Civil War that much more enjoyable.
Jonathan Williams, African American Patriot of the Civil War Jonathan Williams was born in Campbell County, Kentucky, located at the northern edge of that slave state, nestled along the southern shore of the Ohio River, directly south of Cincinnati and southern Ohio, on the border of slavery an...
… This good woman remained with our family till 1865, when the Civil War ended, when she left us and moved down to Greenville, N.C., where her husband, whose name was ‘Shade,’ lived. After the emancipation of the slaves she said that she could never enjoy her ‘freedom’ as long...
also. This shift began in earnest with the “Great Society” and the federalization of welfare, perhaps the worst public policy experiment ever conceived. People blame Lyndon Johnson for the foul execution of military policy in the Viet-Nam War, as they should, but 100 times as much damage ...