The Civil War is designed to supplement your students' study of the greatest war in American history.
The Civil War: Soldiers and Civilians includes a booklet containing a teachers guide, a set of reproductions of original documents, and a CD-ROM containing exercise worksheets and digital images of original documents. The unit is made up of five exercises that relate to military and civilian life. Each exercise uses reproductions of documents from the National Archives and suggests classroom activities based on these documents. The documents include letters, photographs, patent drawings, maps, and other documents. Students practice the historian's skills as they complete exercises using these documents to gather information, identify points of view, evaluate evidence, form hypotheses, and draw conclusions.
Other units comprising the Teaching With Documents series are:
The Constitution: Evolution of a Government
The Bill of Rights: Evolution of Personal Liberties
The United States Expands West: 1785-1842
Westward Expansion: 1842-1912
The Progressive Years: 1898-1917
World War I: The Home Front
The 1920's
The Great Depression and The New Deal
World War II: The Home Front
The United States At War: 1944
The Truman Years: 1945-1953
Peace and Prosperity: 1953-1961
