The Civil War: Internet Resources

Provides information on Civil War Battlefield protection activities from the U.S. National Park Service. This site includes links to all battlefields maintained by the National Park Service.

The National Park Service web site on the Civil War includes a timeline of events before and after the War, as well as links to resources and National Parks and Monuments related to the War.

A guide to Illinois genealogy related to the Civil War.

A collection of primary source materials from the National Archives that were selected to document the social revolution resulting from emancipation in the words of the participants: liberated slaves and former slaveholders, soldiers and civilians, common folk and the elite, Northerners and Southerners. Developed by the University of Maryland.

This site links to selected collections dealing with the Civil War and Reconstruction that are available online at the Library of Congress. The collections are arranged by category. They include collections related to Abraham Lincoln as well as separate collections of maps, portraits, photographs and diaries from the era.

This collection contains primary source materials, including pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880 from the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia. It can be browsed by author, title and date and searched by subject and keyword.

This website from the U.S. National Archives contains links to significant documents dealing with the Civil War and its causes, links to articles in Prologue magazine, and links to lectures about the War given at the National Archives.