Primary source toolbox
On this page you will be able to find several website that can help you find primary sources about the Civil War.
Primary sources
Digital History
This website provides different forms of primary sources about the Civil War (documents, music, photos, etc).
Docs Teach
This has many different documents about the Civil War.
Digital Vaults
This is a great interactive website that you can use to explore documents and photos from the Civil War.
Civil War Photographs
A great collection of Civil War photographs
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Another archive of primary source documents, cartoons, pictures, maps, newspapers, and many more.
This website provides different forms of primary sources about the Civil War (documents, music, photos, etc).
Docs Teach
This has many different documents about the Civil War.
Digital Vaults
This is a great interactive website that you can use to explore documents and photos from the Civil War.
Civil War Photographs
A great collection of Civil War photographs
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Another archive of primary source documents, cartoons, pictures, maps, newspapers, and many more.
Analysis Tools
Both of the tools below will help you analyze primary sources.
Library of Congress Analysis Tool
This is a great tool that will help you analyze a primary source.
This is a great tool that will help you analyze a primary source.
Digital History Document Analysis
This provides different worksheets and questions depending on the type of primary source you are looking at (document, photo, etc).
This provides different worksheets and questions depending on the type of primary source you are looking at (document, photo, etc).
Primary source lessons
Historical Scene Investigator
This website utilizes primary sources to turn students into historical detectives to solve different cases.
Historical Scene Investigator- Civil War
This is a lesson based solely on the Civil War and the lives children led during it.
Life During the Civil War
This lesson uses primary sources (letters) to explain life during the Civil War.
This website utilizes primary sources to turn students into historical detectives to solve different cases.
Historical Scene Investigator- Civil War
This is a lesson based solely on the Civil War and the lives children led during it.
Life During the Civil War
This lesson uses primary sources (letters) to explain life during the Civil War.