Photo by Alexander Gardner, Smith's barn, used as a hospital after the battle of Antietam, Keedysville, Maryland vicinity. September 1862. Photo from Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress American Memory Website.
The Civil War Trust's mission is to preserve the endangered Civil War battlefield, to promote educational programs and heritage tourism initiatives to inform the public of the war's history and the fundamental conflicts that sparked it.
The National Park Service is responsible for the national Civil War battlefields and cemeteries. This website commemorates the sesquicentennial of the War.
The Institute is a nonprofit organization supporting the study and love of American history through a wide range of programs and resources for students, teachers, scholars, and history enthusiasts. This page from the Institute's website provides podcasts and curriculum models on the Civil War Era.
The website focuses on two communities: one Northern and one Southern. You can see original letters, diaries, newspapers and more left by the communities.
"Hidden Patterns of the Civil War" collects a number of interrelated projects on the sectional crisis, slavery, and emancipation during the Civil War era, with a particular emphasis on the histories of the city of Richmond and the state of Virginia.
Exclusive online commentary revisiting and reconsidering America's most perilous
period -- using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to
follow the Civil War as it unfolded.
