- Teacher Resources
- Student Activities
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Slavery
Collection Connections
- African-American Experience In Ohio 1850-1920
- African-American Sheet Music
- African American Odyssey
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer’s Project
- The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
- The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
- Voices From the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Story
Exhibitions
Lesson Plans and Web Guides
- Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record
- Slavery
- African American Sites in the Digital Collections: 1861-1877 Civil War and Reconstruction
- Frederick Douglass
- Harriet Tubman
- Sojourner Truth
Additional Library of Congress Resources
- Themed Resources: Civil Rights
- Digitized Book: Uncle Tom’s Cabin for Children
- Presentation: From Slavery to Civil Rights: A Timeline of African-American History
- Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom
- Pictorial Americana: Slavery
Civil War and Reconstruction
Collection Collections
- Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
- Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
- Band Music from the Civil War Era
- Civil War Maps
- Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers
- Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society
- First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
- Historic American Sheet Music: 1850 – 1920
- Jedediah Hotchkiss Confederate Map Collection
- Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library
- Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection
- Selected Civil War Photographs
- Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865
Exhibitions
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
- Artifact – Lace cap and collar
- Band Book - Port Royal Band Books
- Broadside – Women’s War Relief (pattern for hospital slippers)
- Diary - Diary of a Confederate Woman
- Diary – Andersonville (Clara Barton)
- Drawing - Civil War Sketch Artist (Alfred Waud)
- Letter – Lincoln Fires McClellan (Mary Todd Lincoln)
- Map - Civil War Maps (Jedediah Hotchkiss)
- Newspaper - The Fall of Vicksburg
- Notebook -Walt Whitman and the Civil War
- Photograph - Brother Against Brother
- Political Cartoon - Reconstruction (Thomas Nast)
- Poster-map - Promoting the Union Cause
- Sheet Music - “O Let My People Go”
- Speech - First Draft of the Gettysburg Address
- Telegram - The Fall of Savannah
- Watercolor - Civil War Ironclads
- Gettysburg Address
- The Last Full Measure: Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection
- Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and the Leaves of Grass
- With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition
Lesson Plans and Web Guides
- The Civil War Through a Child's Eye
- Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies
- Civil War Photographs: The Mathew Brady Bunch
- Civil War Photojournalism: A Record of War
- Civil War Photographs: What Do You See?
- Library of Congress Poetry Resources: Civil War
- Presidential Election of 1864
- Primary Documents – Civil War and Reconstruction
Primary Source Sets
Additional Library of Congress Resources
- Themed Resources: Abraham Lincoln -
- Themed Resources: Civil War
- Americas Library: Jump Back in Time: Civil War
- Digitized Book: Gardner’s photographic sketchbook of the War
Hidden Treasures at the Library of Congress
- How a President Learned to Write (Lincoln’s grammar book)
- Watch a President Age (Lincoln’s life masks)
- What was in Lincoln’s Pockets? (Items in Lincoln’s pockets when he was shot at Ford’s Theater)
- The Book Lincoln and Obama Have in Common (Inauguration Bible)
- Mapping on Horseback (Civil War field sketchbook)
- The Union Sends a Message (newspaper printed on wallpaper)
- 273 Words to a New America (Gettysburg address drafts)
Map Interactives
- With Malice Towards None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition
- The Journey of the President-Elect Interactive
- The Long Journey Home Interactive
- Performing Arts: Civil War Sheet Music Collection
Presentations
- American Memory Timeline: Civil War and Reconstruction
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Does the Camera Ever Lie?
- Finding the Heart in History: Making Connections Through Poetry
- History of Mapping the Civil War
- Sampler of Collection Themes: The Civil War
- Time Line of the Civil War
Prints and Photographs
- Documentary: Drawings
- The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Photographs of African Americans During the Civil War
- Pictorial Americana
- John Brown and Harper’s Ferry
- Confederate States of America
- Civil War – 1861
- Civil War – 1862
- Civil War – 1863
- Civil War – 1864
- Civil War – 1865
- Civil War – 1866 (Aftermath)
- Women's Activities During the Civil War: A Select List of Photographs
- Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 - Slide Show: Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress
- Civil War Images Slide Show
- Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs – Slide Show/
- Topics Page: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Webcast: Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery and the Civil War Through Reconstruction
- America’s Library: Jump Back in Time: Reconstruction