Resources

American Memory Collections

Selected Civil War Photographs

• Boy Drummer
• Children on bridge
• Children in front of church
• Military family
• Portrait of a Boy Soldier

Background

Readers Theater

• Online Resources
  • http://loiswalker.com/catalog/teach.html
  • http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/langrt.htm
• Text Resources
  • Walker, Lois. Readers Theatre in the Middle School and Junior High Classroom. Colorado Springs, CO: Meriweather Publishing, 1996.
  • Ratliff, Gerald Lee. Introduction to Readers Theatre: A Guide to Classroom Performance. Colorado Spring, CO: Meriweather Publishing, 1999.

Instructional Materials

• Photo Analysis Guide.
• Note-Taking Guide for Analyzing Civil War Documents.
• Literary Portrait Scoring Guide.

Offline Resources

Fiction

• Collier, James Lincoln & Collier, Christopher. With Every Drop of Blood. New York: Delacorte Press, 1994.
• Fleischman, Paul. Bull Run. New York:  HarperCollins Publishers, 1993.
• Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils. Chicago: Follett Publishing Co., 1964.
• Paulsen, Gary & Wendt, George. Soldier's Heart: A Novel of the Civil War. New York: Delacorte Press, 1998.
• Reeder, Carolyn. Shades of Gray. New York: Macmillan, 1989.
• Reit, Seymour. Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.

Nonfiction

• Murphy, Jim. The Boys' War: Conferderate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War. New York: Clarion Books, 1990.

Video/DVD

• Burns, Ken. The Civil War. Narr. David McCullough. Writ. and prod. Ken Burns. PBS Special. Florentine Films. Sept. 1990.

• Michael Lehman Williamson Collection of Civil War Books for Young People lists more than 600 books.

Other American Memory Materials for Extensions

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940

• Manuscript:  Evan Jones Walker

Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920

• The drummer boy of Shiloh – Sheet music

Civil War Lessons

• Links to the Past
• Mathew Brady Bunch
• Photojournalism: A Record of War
• What Do You See?
• Does the Camera Ever Lie?

Links to Other Online Resources

• The American Civil War Homepage -- A collection of  links to files about the Civil War is maintained by the University of Tennessee.   http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
• The United States Civil War Center  -- This site maintained by Louisiana State University indexes more than 2700 links about the Civil War.  http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/
• The American Civil War -- A comprehensive list of Civil War links maintained by Dakota State University. http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System -- A database of resources about the Civil War organized by the National Park Service. http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
• Valley of the Shadow -- Project designed by the University of Virginia that explores the histories of two communities living along the Mason-Dixon Line.  http://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU/vshadow2/

Credits

• Mark Wubbold, Associate Researcher, Portland State University