Civil War Archives
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Lesson Ideas for the Civil War Gallery
The study of the Civil War can provide lessons across the curriculum. This page includes class activities, lesson plans and links to Civil War sites.

Lesson Nine: The War for Union
Distance Learning at Texas Tech University - Main Themes: The War for Union, The Implications of the Civil War, Reconstruction After the Civil War

Lesson Plan: The Civil War
This lesson plan, for an upper elementary unit on the Civil War, contains links to other Internet sites and provides valuable cross-curricular materials for teachers and students.

The Civil War -- Emancipation Experience
The purpose of this inquiry lesson is to give students an affective experience of the pre and post American Civil War experience on Americans- Blacks and Whites (southerners and northerners).

Letters From the Civil War
Students are paired and write letters to each other, one as a Northern soldier, the other as a Southern soldier.

The U.S. Civil War
This lesson is intended to help students understand some of the problems America went through before becoming a great nation. It is the hope of the authors that the students will be able to assess the causes of the war and form their own conclusions.