The student can easily locate primary documents, like the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation, and information on historic places and battles and the political and economic tensions leading up to secession. Under each heading is a simple list of links. The National Park Service presents this informational site. Once there, students can view a soldier's authentic shaving kit and other personal effects. The site also has a searchable database listing servicemen who served on both sides during the war.
Students can search for soldiers, sailors, regiments, battles, prisoners, and more.
This companion site to the PBS special of the same title explores Abraham Lincoln's life and his decisions on partisan politics, slavery and abolition, and sweatshops. Students can tour a slave cabin and learn about slave living conditions. They will discover how primitive medicine was through soldiers' narratives and primary documents and can follow a Union and Confederate soldier into battle. Also, students can research the economic differences between North and South and how these differences contributed to the beginning of the war. The site also includes a teacher's guide to enrich current curriculum lessons on the subject.