Den amerikanske Borgerkrig - the civil War

inkl. optakten og "secession" (Sydens udtræden af unionen)

Den Amerikanske Borgerkrig (1861-65) generelt samt årstal

	The American Civil War WebQuest
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/coming_civilwar/index.cfm
	www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog10/index.html
	http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module9/index.html
	americanhistory.about.com/cs/civilwarmenu/ udvalgte links fra About.com
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAevents.htm www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilwarC.htm
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USApolitical.htm Amerikansk politik fra Spartacus An encyclopedia of American politics between 1840 and 1980. The website includes entries on political parties (10), pressure groups (26) and biographies of leading political figures: 1840-1900 (106), 1900-45 (56) and 1945-1980 (46). ...

	www.vlib.us/eras/war.htm secession og Borgerkrigen - links fra Kansas univ.(perioden 1855-1865) + optakten til borgerkrigen 1850-1860
	www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html årstal og links (langsom)
	www.pbs.org/civilwar/images/ billeder fra borgerkrigen
	memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html Civil War Maps
	www.cwc.lsu.edu U.S. Civil War Center fra Louisian State University
	USCWC -- Index of Civil War Information available on the Internet links til emner vedr. borgerkrigen
	www.civilwar.si.edu/home.html The Smithsonian's presentation on the Civil War. A+ This site offers tons of information and resources about the Civil War for teachers, students or anyone interested in this part of American History. The Smithsonian section discusses the beginning of the war and the museum during that time period. The Collections include Abraham Lincoln, Slavery and Abolition, first blood, soldiering, weapons, leaders, cavalries, navies, life and culture, Appomattox, Winslow Homer, and Matthew Brady. Each topic has an overview page and a link to the artifacts. By clicking on the thumbnails of the various artifacts, ranging from personal effects to portraits, more information is revealed. An interactive timeline is also available that highlights the important events of the war. Additionally a list of print and online resources is provided. (educ world)
	Civil War Resources on the Internet Abolitionism to Reconstruction fra Rutgers univ.
	The American Civil War Homepage særdeles omfattende opdateres ofte The American Civil War Homepage . fine links "Dr. George H. Hoemann (univ Tenn) has gathered together in one place hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War. The page opens a gateway to Internet's multi-formatted resources Not only was the War the occasion for the abolition of slavery, but by conflict's end the re-United States had emerged as a modern, industrialized power. The material is organised under the following headings: General Resources, Secession Crisis, Images of Wartime, Biographical Information, Histories and Bibliographies, Documentary Records, Local Studies, Battles & Campaigns, Rosters & Regimental Histories, Civil War Reenactors and Civil War Round Tables." (fra newsletter - se også : Best Free Reference Web Sites 2004 )
	www.civil-war.net info + mange links +musik
	www.civilwar.com "This comprehensive account of the American Civil War is produced by Premier Internet. Sections include Timeline (9th February, 1861 to 4th May, 1865), Battles (chronological list), Documents (government papers, diaries, letters) Places (battlefields, cemeteries, forts, historic parks, monuments, museums), Music (recordings of civil war music), Discussion Forum and Links."
	www.historyplace.com/lincoln/index.html Lincoln tidslinje med links til vigtige dokumenter mv, f.eks.www.historyplace.com/lincoln/divided.htm "a House divided against itself cannot stand" - talen
	OpenUW A series of free courses presented by UW Educational Outreach
	www.hti.umich.edu/l/lincoln/ The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln "In 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a multi-volume set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Roy P. Basler and his editorial staff, with the continued support of the association, spent five years transcribing and annotating Lincoln's papers. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln represented the first major scholarly effort to collect and publish the complete writings of Abraham Lincoln, and the edition has remained an invaluable resource to Lincoln scholars." memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html Abraham Lincoln Papers "The complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 20,000 documents. ..Most of the 20,000 items are from the 1850s through Lincoln's presidential years, 1860-65. Treasures include Lincoln's draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, his March 4, 1865, draft of his second Inaugural Address..." showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln.html Abraham Lincoln This website contains everything you will ever want to know about Abraham Lincoln.
	Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project også andet materiale fra antebellum Illinois www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is a project seeking to identify, gather images of, and publish documents written either by or to Abraham Lincoln. The Web site doesn't have any published documents yet (and it's not clear when that's going to happen), but there are some things here. There's an description of the project, some back issues of two newsletters related to Lincoln, and a really extensive chronology and bibliography. (researchbuzz)
	www.click2history.com/abraham_lincoln/lincoln_assassination.htm Mordet på Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as America's 16th President just before the Civil War began. His life was ended by an assassin's bullet five days after General Robert E. Lee surrendered. This website, produced by Carole Bos, provides a clear account of the story.
	Abraham Lincoln Online -- Your Source for Lincoln News se også under præsidenter
	Causes of the Civil War dokumenter mv Jim Epperson : The Causes of the Civil War med dokumentation
	Civil War Collection Minn hist soc

	members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html Abraham Lincoln Research Site "While reluctant to add "homegrown" sites; this one seems to offer an unusual array of resources and links with no advertisements. ...members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln.html Created and maintained by Roger Norton."
	nyt.ulib.org/ The Historical New York Times Project : Universal Library New York Times 1860-1866.

Forskellige sider af borgerkrigen, dagbøger m.v.

NB : en del af nedenstående har nok mest interesse i engelsk eller opgave sammenhæng, men flere har fået meget fine bedømmelser.

	Valley of the Shadow: Two communities in the American Civil War http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/ The Valley of the Shadow : 2 samfund i hhv Nord og Syd før, under og efter borgerkrigen : tonsvis af herligt kildemateriale. ( University of Virginia. (A+)) "this site is a massive, searchable archive of thousands of pages of maps, images, letters, diaries, newspapers, and church, agricultural, military, and public records--all relating to two communities, Staunton, Virginia, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, before, during, and after the Civil War. Offers both a narrative "walking tour" and direct access to the archive. ...This is an important and innovative site, particularly valuable to historians of 19th-century American life. "Aside from the Library of Congress," write historians Roy Rosenzweig and Michael O'Malley, "no single site offers a more eclectic and complete range of material on line." se f.eks. avisartikler vedr. syden/slaveriet 1859-60 på jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/xml_docs/valley_news/html/topics.html "....As a resource to explore the first-hand experience of the Civil War from the point of view of both the South and the North, the Valley of the Shadow is indispensable." (best free reference sites 2004)
	etext.virginia.edu/civilwar American Civil War Collection at the Electronic Text Center "The Electronic Text Center is home to a variety of primary source material on the American Civil War, including letters, diaries and newspapers. Letter collections include searchable transcriptions as well as digital images of the manuscripts."
	www.civilwarphotos.net/ Fotografier fra den amerikanske borgerkrig Over 1,000 Civil War Images, Photographs and Cartes de Visites including Army Life, United States and Confederate Government Officers, Union and Confederate Generals and Soldiers, Civilians, Battle Field Photos, Casualties, Infantry Units, Cavalry Units, Artillery Units, Engineering Units, Navy Units and Vessels, Prisoners, Hospitals and Doctors, Factories, Quartermaster and Lincoln Assassination Conspirators
	www.library.miami.edu/archives/shedd/index.htm Breve fra borgerkrigen Calvin Shedd, a carpenter from New Hampshire, enlisted in the Seventh Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers and served the Union Army during the Civil War from 1862 - 1863. During this period Shedd wrote 53 letters to his wife and three young daughters about military life in Key West, Fort Jefferson and St. Augustine, Florida. These documents convey the extraordinary circumstances that life in the Union Army offered one New Hampshire solider during the early years of the Civil War. The website includes a biography of Shedd and photographs of people mentioned in the text.
	A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment "documents the Civil War experience of Captain Tilton C. Reynolds, a member of the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. Comprising 164 library items, or 359 digital images, this online presentation includes correspondence, photographs, and other materials dating between 1861 and 1865. The letters feature details of the regiment's movements, accounts of military engagements, and descriptions of the daily life of soldiers and their views of the war. Forty-six of the letters are also made available in transcription"

	freenet.vcu.edu/tourism/histrich/cw.html rejs igennem Virginia under borgerkrigen
	diary f.eks. : scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/williamson
	First-Person Narratives of the American South (American Memory, Library of Congress) First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 documents the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It includes over one hundred diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives published during and after the Civil War." (Library of Congress's American Memory Project.)
	moa.umdl.umich.edu/moa_browse.html Making of America (MOA) kildemateriale til USA's historie ca. 1850 - 1876 "Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. i marts 2001 er der tilføjet endnu 7000 værker til samlingen.. "The addition of these brings their online volume count to 8,500 -- about 2.89 million pages of text." Der kan heldigvis søges ! http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
	memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society "The images in this digital collection are drawn from the New-York Historical Society's rich archival collections that document the Civil War. They include recruiting posters for New York City regiments of volunteers; stereographic views documenting the mustering of soldiers and of popular support for the Union in New York City; photography showing the war's impact, both in the north and south; and drawings and writings by ordinary soldiers on both sides." Civil War Treasures is a part of the Library of Congress's American Memory Project." (infomine)
	Letters Home from an Iowa Soldier in the American Civil War
	www.mnhs.org/library/Christie/intropage.html Civil War letters of the Christie family This site, put together by the Minnesota Historical Society, chronicles the letters of three brothers as they served in the Civil War between 1861-1865. (reasearch buzz)
	Civil War Women scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html The Special Collections Library at Duke University maintains this archive of the papers of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Alice Williamson, and Sarah E. Thompson. The scanned images and transcripts present a picture of the lives of women during the American Civil War.... scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.htm
	www.journale.com/eyeofthestorm/index.html Eye of the Storm * Journal E "... At the center of the site is Robert Knox Sneden, a private in the Union army attached to the 40th New York Volunteers from 1861 through his liberation from the infamous Andersonville, Ga., prison camp near the end of the war. His own story emerges through the excerpts from his newly discovered journal... Sneden's writing is fresh, straightforward.. But more remarkable still--and perhaps more immediate--are Sneden's detailed watercolor paintings and the handmade battle maps that illustrate his diaries**. It is here that his personal story expands into the larger story of the Civil War, and these sketches are truly unparalleled even amid the extensive visual resources available for this period. A grim panorama of advancing troops in Virginia, Confederates destroying railroad cars, Union soldiers huddled in Andersonville prison, a surveillance balloon high above Yorktown, Va.--the 19 sketches and maps here give a striking overview of the war. ...." (britannica nyhedsbrev)
	docsouth.unc.edu/imls/index.html The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 " The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 documents Southern life during the Civil War, especially the unsuccessful attempt to create a viable nation state as evidenced in both private and public life. Homefront includes over four hundred digitized and encoded contemporary printed works and manuscripts, accompanied by ca. 1,000 images ... Southern Homefront is a part of the Documenting the American South project from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Academic Affairs Library." (infomine)
	nyt.ulib.org/ The Historical New York Times Project : Universal Library ; NY Times har iværksat et projektmed at få alle gamle numre af avisen på nettet - i første omgang er avisen 1860-1866 tilgængelig for enhver. særlige ønsker mv mod betaling. Borgerkrigen ny times rapporterer 1860-1866
	amillionlives.com/Collect_spec2.html#civil A Million Lives looks at the lives of individuals who took part in the Civil War, called Lives: The Biography Resource
	memory.loc.gov/ammem/tafthtml/tafthome.html Washington during the Civil War The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865 Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865 presents digital images and transcriptions of three manuscript volumes .. through the eyes of Horatio Nelson Taft (1806-1888), an examiner for the U. S. Patent Office. ... The diary details events in Washington during the Civil War years including Taft's connection with Abraham Lincoln and his family. Of special interest is Taft's description of Lincoln's assassination, based on the accounts of his friends and his son, who was one of the attending physicians at Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was shot,.." Washington during the Civil War is a part of the Library of Congress's American Memory Project.(infomine)
	www.erols.com/kfraser poetry & music fra borgerkrigens tid
	memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html Band Music from the Civil War Era
	A Voice For Black Soldiers under borgerkrigen art. about.com

Confederate Broadside Poetry Collection
"The Confederate Broadside Poetry Collection at Wake Forest University consists of over 250 examples of poems written by southerners and Confederate sympathizers during the Civil War. The collection includes some pamphlets and clippings, as well as broadsides."

A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment fra American Memory samlingen
Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment (Library of Congress)
Primary source material. Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers
documents the Civil War experience of Captain Tilton C. Reynolds, a
member of the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. Comprising 164
library items, 359 digital images, this online presentation includes
correspondence, photographs, and other materials dating between 1861 and
1865. The letters feature details of the regiment's movements, accounts
of military engagements, and descriptions of the daily life of soldiers
and their views of the war. Forty-six of the letters are also made
available in transcription.

Hearts at Home Southern Women in the Civil War Sydstatskvinder under den amerikanske borgerkrig

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