by beeghleytech | Nov 19, 2009 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Famous Civil War People
Since I have posted on The Gettysburg Address in the past, I thought I would share this USA Today headline article about a “new” image of Abe Lincoln at Gettysburg being found at the Library of Congress. The story discusses how an amateur historian was...
by beeghleytech | Aug 22, 2009 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Lesson Plans
Okay, so back in December I asked you to take a look at the following photograph so we could explore all of its hidden treasures. This photograph shows the same building from my December 8th post that showed wounded soldiers from the battles in the...
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 TeachCivilWar | Jun 25, 2009 | Lesson Plans
Mike Lynaugh has put together a collection of original Civil War photographs on his website Virtual Civil War. This collection of Civil War photographs will allow your students to view some excellent photos or provide you with some primary sources to display for...
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...
