Beverly Tomek

Civil War and Reconstruction

 

For those currently enrolled in the course, click here for the UH-V Blackboard link.

 

Companion Website for A House Divided: The Civil War and Nineteenth-Century America by Jonathan Daniel Wells

          This is our main textbook.  

          Here you will find useful resources, most importantly, a treasure of online sources in the "Links" page under the "Students" tab.

 

 

Recommended Websites

Essential Civil War Curriculum

 

EyeWitness to the American Civil War

 

Collection of Free Online Primary Civil War Sources

 

Secession Documents -- Duke University Collection

 

Virginia Secession Convention

 

Frederick Douglass and the Civil War

 

Civil War Diaries and Letters -- University of Iowa

 

Keith Harris History

 

Civil War Memory

 

Renegade South

 

Interactive Map of Gettysburg

 

Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction

 

Bruce Levine on the Myth of Black Confederates

 

Useful Podcasts and Videos

 

The Civil War was About Slavery

 

David Blight Lectures on Civil War and Reconstruction

 

Eric Foner on Reconstruction and Its Legacy

 

Eric Foner on the Changing Views of Reconstruction

 

Eric Foner on the Politics of Reconstruction