United States Civil War 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Online Encyclopedias

 

Try one of these three online encyclopedias to search your topic. In addition to the encyclopedia articles, you will find links to websites, media (illustrations, pictures, etc.), and magazine articles. 

 

World Book Advanced

 

Grolier Online      

 

    

   

 

INFOhio Electronic Resources            www.infohio.org

 

You may  want to try one of these research databases available through INFOhio. (Don't forget that you will need a username and password to access these from your home computer).

 

Oxford Reference Online

Contains more than 130 complete reference titles, fully indexed and cross-searchable, from a wide range of disciplines, as well as Web sites and timelines

 

These two articles were taken from EBSCOhost

 

'The Cause' of the American Civil War

Article taken from EBSCOhost- must cite accordingly

 

Causes of the American Civil War- Georgia's Secession

Article taken from EBSCOhost- must cite accordingly

 

 

 

 

 

You might find the following websites useful when researching the United States Civil War. 

Hint: Be sure to look for a search window on the website, and enter your keywords.

 

The Civil War Home Page

http://www.civil-war.net/ (sponsored by Michael Frosch)

 

 

The American Civil War Home Page

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

 

 

Shotgun’s Home of the American Civil War  (Hint: try following link called "Civil War Potpourri")

http://www.civilwarhome.com/  (sponsored by Dick Weeks)

 

 

AmericanCivilWar.com

http://www.americancivilwar.com/  (sponsored in part by March Through Times)

http://americancivilwar.com/civil.html  

 

 

Gettysburg Kidz

http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettkidz/cause.htm

 

 

Africans in America- 1831-1865

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/title.html

 

 

American Memory

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

 

 

Kid Info- Civil War

http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Civil_War.html

 

 

The Civil War Explorer    

http://www.civilwar.org/historyctandclassrm.htm

 

 

From Revolution to Reconstruction: An Outline of American History: Sectional Conflict

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1954uk/chap5.htm

 

 

Outline of U.S. History- Chapter 6: Sectional Conflict

http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/histryotln/conflict.htm

 

 

Teacher Net

http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/civilwar.html

*Home access only- blocked from school due to Free Host

 

 

CivilWar.com

http://www.civilwar.com/

 

 

Teacher Oz- Civil War Causes

http://www.teacheroz.com/Civil_War_Causes.htm

 

 

Causes of the Civil War

http://www.civilwarhistory.com/slavetrade/causes.htm#i    

(produced by the Southern Civil War Society)

 

 

MSN Encarta- Civil War

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567354/American_Civil_War.html

 

 

Causes of the Civil War- A North Georgia Perspective

http://ngeorgia.com/history/why.html

 

 

Causes of the Civil War- A Southern Perspective

http://blueandgraytrail.com/features/southerncauses.html

 

 

Civil War History- About.Com 

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/civilwarmenu/Civil_War.htm

 

 

Oracle Thinkquest- Civil War

http://www.thinkquest.org/library/cat_show.html?cat_id=71

            These are two of the better Thinkquest sites for this assignment

            http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215472/

              http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215469/

 

 

American Civil War Search Directory     

http://www.civilwarsearch.com/CivilWarHistory/Causes/tabid/107/Default.aspx

 

 

International World History Project- American Civil War

http://history-world.org/american_civil_war.htm

 

 

The American Civil War- Dakota State University   

http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm 

 

 

James Epperson's Civil War Page- Civil War Chronologies

http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/causes.html

*Home access only- blocked from school due to Free Host

 

 

American Civil War: Causes  (About.com)

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/civilwar/a/CivilWarCauses.htm

 

 

 

Overview of Project and Survey

 

An overview of the requirements for this project can be found here, sample of the bibliography here, and the opening paragraph here. This is a template for the project paper, with margins and header set. The rubric for this presentation can be found here.

 

Two ways to get to Mrs. Cline's Web page:

 

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