The Approaching Fury Assignment

 


 

Web Resources


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General

 

             Slavery

             The American Civil War Homepage

             Valley of the Shadow - University of Virginia

 

 

    Abraham Lincoln

 

            Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project

            Abraham Lincoln Online.org

            Abraham Lincoln Research Site

            Lincoln Home -  National Park Service

            Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library  -  Library of Congress

 

 

    The North

 

            Frederick Douglass

            John Brown's Holy War  -  The American Experience (PBS)

            John Brown on the Internet

            Stephen A. Douglas and the American Union

            The Underground Railroad  -  UC Davis

            William Lloyd Garrison  -  Africans in America (PBS)

                Excerpt from The Liberator

            Harriet Beecher Stowe

                Comments on Uncle Tom's Cabin

            The Abolitionist  -  With information on Nat Turner, John Brown, and others.

 

 

    The South

 

            Monticello & Thomas Jefferson

            Thomas Jefferson   A Film by Ken Burns

            Jefferson's Blood   Frontline Report, PBS

            American Slave Narratives

            John C. Calhoun

            John C. Calhoun   Matthew Brady photo

            Mary Boykin Chesnut   Diary

            Henry Clay   Portrait 

            Jefferson Davis

            George Fitzhugh

                Text of Sociology for the South (1854)

            Nat Turner

            The Confessions of Nat Turner

            Documenting the American South

            Sugar in Louisiana