by beeghleytech | Feb 6, 2010 | Famous Civil War People
The Library of Congress sponsors discussions on various books and broadcasts them via their website. One of the webcasts was about Robert E. Lee and features the author Elizabeth Brown Pryor. The author talks about her research into Robert E. Lee and provides a unique...
by TeachCivilWar | Nov 21, 2009 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Lesson Plans
In this season of elections, I thought it would be interesting to share a website on Civil War era elections. Harper’s Weekly has created a website for researching historical elections from 1860 to 1912. According to the website, the Presidential Elections page...
by beeghleytech | Aug 8, 2009 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Lesson Plans
So I thought that I would start a series on how to use photographs from the Civil War era in order to increase understanding. Looking at photographs can tell us a great deal about many different aspects of the war. Today we will discuss the following photograph from...
by beeghleytech | Apr 16, 2009 | Miscellaneous Civil War topics
Eric Langhorst is an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri and runs the Speaking of History podcast and blog. Eric has some great resources on his website for using Web 2.0 technologies into the teaching of History. Eric recorded the presentation of...
by beeghleytech | Mar 30, 2009 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Lesson Plans
As many of you know, the Library of Congress has a website called Selected Civil War Photographs. This page makes browsing the photographs easy because they have a Search feature, a Subject browse, or you can look at photos from each year of the War. There is also...
