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American Memory: Selected Civil War Photographs

There are plenty of areas of government I could take or leave. But the Library of Congress remains one of my favorites, displaced only by the United States Postal Service, and the American Memory sites are a perfect example of why this Library is so outstanding. This site is rich with photographs by Matthew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and many others. If you're interested in buying books with these photos, you can get them remaindered or from online dealers like Edward R. Hamilton:"http://www.edwardrhamilton.com"

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Gettysburg Address Read by Sam Waterston

Eloquent speaking has largely left the public arena, with speechwriters spinning and public speakers unable to perfect a turn of phrase if their lives depended on it. There are, of course, bright sparks of hope like former President William J. Clinton, or many leaders from other nations, like Nelson Mandela or Margaret Thatcher. Few modern speeches or speakers will match Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, however, for brevity and longevity. Sam Waterston - one of my favorite actors in any of the many roles he has had - reads the Address here for National Public Radio on the 140th anniversary of this greatest of American battles.

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Virginia Civil War Archive

This fantastic resource (utilizing the Greenstone digital library application) hosts 100 illustrations for Harpers Weekly from the Civil War. Easy to navigate, and the scans are of good quality, and well indexed. Searches on topics like "cold harbor" or "lee" are pretty straight-forward. The drawing of Lee, sans beard, is one of my favorites.

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National Battlefield Protection Program

One of the saddest things you can do is travel through a country where great battles have occurred to find that the final clash has been covered up by a monostrous hypermart full of plastic toys and groceries. Evesham is a notorious example in England. The United States National Park Service has initiated a battlefield protection program that enables citizens and tourists to walk the fields of Gettysburg and Antietam, among others. If you have an opportunity to teach about these explosive events, the site has lesson plans and other teaching resources.

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Related Topics:  Annotated Link  Civil War  History  USA  National Park Service