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...
The following is a great TeacherTube video showing an actor portraying Major General George Gordon Meade and provides a nice overview of the Battle of Gettysburg: Allow your students to review the video and then have a discussion about how Major General Meade handled...
So the other day at lunch time, it was a nice day so I decided to take a walk outside and I found myself heading for the state museum. I walked up to the area for the Civil War and found it under renovation, however they did have some paintings there and I began to...
The following is from The Lincoln Log website and gives you an idea of what Lincoln’s day was like on November 19, 1863 prior to giving his famous speech. If you plan to have your students recite the Gettysburg Address for class, this should help provide some...
“The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” This simple sentence was spoken on November 19, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln when he gave the now-famous Gettysburg Address and it reminds us of how...
