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Civil War Essay Contest Winners 2014

High School Division Click on the title to view a pdf of a winning essay. First Prize Mahir Rafi Riaz, The Collegiate School, New York, New York "An End to the Era of Compromise: Amending the Constitution in Civil War America" Second...

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Civil War Essay Contest Winners 2017

High School Division Click on the title to view a pdf of a winning essay. First Prize Kaylee Kimbrough , Pennsylvania Homeschoolers AP Online, Kitanning, Pennsylvania (based in Greenville, Texas) "‘I Shall Deal at the Other Shop’:...

History Now Essay

Lincoln’s Interpretation of the Civil War

Eric Foner

Government and Civics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy

10, 11, 12, 13+

On March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for the second time. The setting itself reflected how much had changed in the past four years. When Lincoln delivered his First Inaugural Address, the new Capitol dome, which...

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26 | New Interpretations of the Civil War Winter 2010

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Women in the Civil War: Vivandieres

Vivandieres, sometimes known as cantinieres, were women who followed the army to provide support for the troops. Ideally, a vivandiere would have been a young woman—the daughter of an officer or wife of a non-commissioned officer—who...

Lesson Plan

Colonists Divided: A Revolution and a Civil War

Government and Civics

6, 7, 8

Background The Stamp Act, the Quartering Act, the Declaratory Act, the Sugar Act, and the Tea Act were just a few of the many policies Great Britain enacted in the British North American colonies in the eighteenth century. To many...

News

Civil War Essay Contest: Deadline Approaching

Middle and high school students with a passion for the Civil War can flex their writing and research skills by submitting an entry to the Civil War Essay Contest . Students have the opportunity to explore a Civil War topic of their...

Collection Item

1863

Nichols, Ambrose S., fl. 1863

Diary belonging to a Civil War soldier

A war-weary soldier's diary provides contemporary eyewitness accounts of the entire Gettysburg Campaign, including the march from Maryland up into Pennsylvania, the battles at Brandy Station and Gettysburg, and the later push in pursuit of the...

GLC09272

Collection Item

1885

Porter, David Dixon, 1813-1891

Naval History of the Civil War

GLC08409

Collection Item

1861-1865

[Civil war patriotic postal cover collection]

Two scrapbooks with 2133 covers and some broadsides pasted in. Containing many unusual Union covers, a number of which are rare and unlisted in Wolcott. Scarce designs from printers such as Magnus, Berlin & Jones, etc., with single, tonal or...

GLC00496.017

Collection Item

1862-1865

Various

Civil War letters and covers [decimalized]

GLC00434