Civil War Teacher Pack
Useful Links
The Civil War Teacher Pack contains a vast range of material including lesson plans
and other teacher-
Listed below are some sources for the Lesson Plans, Teacher Guides and general Civil War material:
Free Material web links
Civil War Preservation Trust
Perhaps the best location for teacher resources relating to the Civil War. The ‘History Center and Classroom’ contains a massive amount of downloadable lesson plans for all grade levels. The Civil War Curriculum includes a new "Gifted and Talented Student Curriculum”.
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PBS The Civil War Classroom
Another superb resource center for teachers. This site has a small number of downloadable
files which use the the multi-
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The Teachers Guide.com
A privately run site full of teacher resources. Not as glossy as the CWPT or PBS sites but still useful.
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Archaeolink.com
US Civil War Lesson Plans & Classroom Activities. This is another useful links page but containing hundreds of links too numerous to place here.
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History Now.com
Pages and pages of web links and other source material. Superb: Abolition Slavery Lincoln
Lincoln Then & Now Civil Rights Movement
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
“...modules cover more than twenty topics that correspond to the major periods in American history and take into consideration the history standards, both required and advanced, to which high school students are held...” Not just Civil War material.
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Teaching with Historical Places
“Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects”.
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Teacher Planet.com
TeacherPlanet features over 350 theme based resource pages.
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Our Documents.gov
Web link to the compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration 100 Milestone documents which chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.
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Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
A good start point for other links to Civil War Lesson Plans.
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Save Our History.com (with The History Channel)
Free to register but packed with useful lesson plans and other material. “Save Our History is a national history education and preservation initiative that raises awareness and support for preserving local heritage.”
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the best site for Civil War era photographs but also has a Learning Page with many lesson plans.
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THE LEARNING PAGE lesson plans (opens new window)
National Archives
Similar to the Library of Congress, the National Archives is a superb center of resources (main site link below & lesson plan link).
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The Civil War Teacher Pack
(three downloads total 507MB)
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Price: $7.95
A simple breakdown of the Pack contents are shown in the Pack Contents section.
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Compatibility: The Civil War Teacher Pack has been created using Windows XP and
is compatible with Windows XP and Vista operating systems. Although not tested in
a Mac environment, all the file types used in the Collection are Mac-
