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Alaska Gov. Palin To Resign
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:44:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was Republican Sen. John McCain's running mate in the 2008 presidential campaign, says she will resign from office July 26.
Gov. Ted Strickland On Ohio's Budget Impasse
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:45:00 -0400
Ohio is facing a $3.2 billion shortfall in its finances. Gov. Ted Strickland has proposed slots at racetracks and spending cuts, but has not been able to reach a deal with the Legislature. The state is operating on a temporary budget for the next few days.
Rare Copy Of Declaration Found In England
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:00:00 -0400
An original copy of the Declaration of Independence was recently discovered in the British National Archives. Edward Hampshire, the diplomatic and colonial specialist at the archives, talks with Melissa Block about the discovery of the 26th copy of the document.

The Talk of the Town

Lauren Collins: Track School
Lauren Collins Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0000
June marks the onset of what one Village resident refers to as “devil-baby season”--the time of the year when the temperature climbs and New Yorkers start doing crazy stuff. This year, the weather stayed cold, and damp. Things still got weird. On Long Island, a newborn was found . . .
James Surowiecki: Caveat Mortgagor
James Surowiecki Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0000
In 1937, the Massengill Company began selling a health product called Elixir Sulfanilamide, which contained one of the antibiotic sulfa drugs. Unfortunately, it also contained diethylene glycol, a solvent that happens to be deadly to humans. In a matter of months, the elixir killed more than a hundred consumers. The . . .
Hendrik Hertzberg: Stonewall Plus Forty
Hendrik Hertzberg Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0000
The most improbable of America’s mass movements for civil rights--improbable at the time, inevitable in retrospect--got its start at a most improbable hour in a most improbable place. The hour: two in the morning, forty years ago. The place: the sidewalk in front of the Stonewall Inn, a . . .

 

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The American Civil War Homepage - The official National Park Service Civil War Web Site. Offers comprehensive information on Parks, education, battlefield protection, soldiers and sailors, and African Americans in the Civil War.

A Civil War Haiku - A haiku verse by Melissa Whelan inspired by the American Civil War; an ode of homage to the valor of our most deadly conflict.
Meta Description: [ A haiku verse inspired by events during the American Civil War; an ode of homage to the valor of our most deadly conflict, by Melissa Whelan. ]

America's Civil War - Features include CSA and USA generals, Medals of Honor, and regimental links, trivia, day-to-day chronology, Pennsylvania rosters for Northampton, Lehigh, and Carbon Counties; Gettysburg National Cemetery burials.
Meta Description: [ America's Civil War from generals to trivia, including Pennsylvania troops, rosters, USA and CSA Medals of Honor, generals, Gettysburg burials, books, and links. ]

American Civil War - Includes flags, maps and timeline, casualties of the civil war, battles and statistics, women in the war, life stories and people search.
Meta Description: [ Civil War in American Battle Maps and Timelines 1860 to 1865 Documents Pictures. ]

American Civil War - Categorized links, general resources, documentary records, and state and local studies. Maintained by Dr. George H. Hoemann, University of Tennessee.

American Civil War - From the University of Northern Texas, this site was created with the intent of linking to as many primary documents from the period of the secession crisis as is reasonably possible, with the goal of shedding light on the causes of secession, hence of the war.
Meta Description: [ This page provides links to web resources on the American Civil War. ]

American Civil War Home - Shotgun's Civil War site - including overviews of many different aspects of the war, biographies, battle summaries, photographs, selected official records, and Fox's Regimental losses.
Meta Description: [ The complete Civil War site. No more running from site to site. On line help available. ]

American Military Communication 1860-1865 - US-CS balloons, telegraph, cryptography, Army-Navy signals, covert operations, forum, interactive code study lessons.
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Astrocartography of the Secession of South Carolina - Essay on the astrocartography of the Civil War, focus on how the planetary metaphors of Mars and Pluto were reflected in this historic event, by astrocartographer Rob Couteau.
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404 Carroll College Institute for Civil War Studies - The collection of the late W. Norman FitzGerald holding includes 1,700 books, 400 pamphlets and 75 maps in addition to letters and other materials from noted Civil War authors.

Casey's On-Line Virtual Civil War Archive - A virtual library of Civil War military histories, Union manuals and documents, includes links to other resources.

404 Causes of the Civil War - Article discussing the role the Mexican War and the Wilmot Proviso played in setting the stage for the War Between the States.

Civil War - A presentation of information about the battles and soldiers, in addition to a vast array of photographs and links.
Meta Description: [ The American Civil War was the only war fought on American soil by Americans, 3 million fought - 600,000 died. It was the greatest war in American history. For that reason we have always been fascinated with The Civil War. ]

Civil War - A comprehensive online resource for Civil War information.
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Civil War - Contains an overview, and articles on secession, slavery, and Civil War firsts.

Civil War Archive - A collection of American Civil War regimental histories, letters from home and diary excerpts.

Civil War at Smithsonian - Examines the Civil War through the Smithsonian Institutes extensive collections. It includes resources, a detailed timeline, and images with detailed descriptions.

Civil War Battles - Repository of information about Civil War battles, people, a timeline, and a summary.
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Civil War Bookshelf - Trends in Civil War publishing, CW historiography, CW civic remembrance, and pop culture.

Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C. - A historical overview of the fortifications that guarded Washington during the Civil War and their current condition.

Civil War Heritage - Contains information about Confederate and Union Generals, and Rock Island Prison.

500 Civil War in Miniature - Extensive coverage of American Civil War terminology, trivia quizzes, chronologies, profiles, stories, graphics and photographs of key figures and events.

Civil War Index Page - Categorized links, includes archives, bibliographies, books and Gateways category. A comprehensive list of Civil War links frequently updated and maintained by Prof. Jim Janke of Dakota State University.

Civil War Information - Civil War information including battles, events and people of the American Civil War.
Meta Description: [ civil war information including what caused the civil war and civil war generals. ]

Civil War Maps Collection - Library of Congress collection of reconnaissance, sketch, coastal, and theater-of-war maps depicting troop activities and fortifications.
Meta Description: [ The Civil War Maps Collection consists of reconnaissance, sketch, coastal, and theater-of-war maps which depict troop activities and fortifications during the Civil War. Part of this selection contains maps by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss, a topographical engineer in the Confederate Army. Hotchkiss m... ]

Civil War Medicine - Includes descriptions of a typical amputation and the soft lead Minie bullets that made them necessary, duties of the Confederate Dental Service, and regulations of the Union ambulance corps.

Civil War Medicine - Covers medicine at the start of the war, medical technology, amputations, transport, and a bibliography.

Civil War Signal Corps - Descriptions, manuals and photographs of the signal equipment and methods used during the American Civil War.
Meta Description: [ Signal Corps Civil War technology and the Signal Corps of the US Army during the Civil War ]

Civil War Slang - Civil War Slang for all fresh fish or top rail skunks.
Meta Description: [ Civil War Slang, BooneBunny looks at Civil War Slang and Daniel Boone ]

Civil War Slang - Listing of slang terms still used in today's language.

Civil War Soldier - Description of soldiers from each side, timeline of events and key dates, gallery of pictures, and other resources.

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System - The CWSS is a comprehensive research tool for searching the records of the soldiers and sailors that fought in the Civil War.

Civil War Story - Contains a wide range of civil war related material with over one hundred pages and photos.
Meta Description: [ civil war pictures and quotes tell the story of the american civil war ]

Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society - Includes recruiting posters for New York City regiments of volunteers; stereographic views documenting the mustering of soldiers and of popular support for the Union in New York City; photography showing the war's impact, both in the north and south; and drawings and writings by ordinary soldiers on both sides.
Meta Description: [ Images drawn from the New-York Historical Society's rich archival collections that document the Civil War. They include recruiting posters for New York City regiments of volunteers; stereographic views documenting the mustering of soldiers and of popular support for the Union in New York City; p... ]

Civil War Weapons - Descriptions and photos of Civil War weapons, including small arms, edged weapons, and artillery.
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Civil War Zone - A collection of Civil War related biographies, documents, songs, chronology, battle orders, links, and recipes.

CJ's Civil War - A complete overlook of the War; including maps, indexes, statistics, flags, lists of battles, and photo gallery. Dedicated to the 13th W. Virginia.
Meta Description: [ Site dedicated to the 13th West Virginia Infantry, battles from 1861 to 1865, listen to civil war songs, view civil war photographs, visit the prisons ]

DHQ's American Civil War Portal. - A directory including many links, a Civil War search, chat, and message boards.
Meta Description: [ Central website for Dave Mackey. Covers a number of different topics such as the American Civil War, Youth Ministry, Church Ministry, Free Wargames, Quotations, etc. ]

Fort Craig - A southwestern fort and a Civil war Battlefield, where Confederate General Sibley fought Union General E.R.S. Canby. A New Mexico historical site.
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George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War - The mission of the center is to promote scholarly research war through the development of a database that contains pertinent military, socio-economic and medical data on Union and Confederate servicemen, with initial emphasis on West Virginia's soldiers.

Great American History - Free educational material on the American Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, site provides an outline, library, and lesson plans.
Meta Description: [ educational material on the Civil War ]

Hispanics in America's Defense - History of Civil War units containing men of Spanish ancestry who fought for the Confederacy and the Union.
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404 Historical Natural History: Insects and the Civil War - The fact that microbes caused more death than hostile fire is well known to the student of the American Civil War. This account reveals the influence of insects on soldiering during the Civil War.

History Channel: This Day in Civil War History - Article on a birthday or event that occurred on today's date during the U.S. Civil War.
Meta Description: [ Learn what happened on This Day in History at History.com. ]

Intelligence in the American Civil War - The works of Edwin C. Fishel, a noted author in the area of intelligence, reveals covert operations, spies and intrigue gathered from his research on the role of intelligence in the Civil War.

404 Jews in the Civil War - Jewish-American History on the Web is an online archive of original documents, journals, books and literature on the subject of Jews in the Civil War.

MacLink's Civil War Research Center - Research reference and data resources and links.
Meta Description: [ This MacLinks page includes book reviews, research sources and data information FROM DesoTO Joe, the Record Man on the United States' CIVIL WAR from 1861 to 1865. ]

Mikes Civil War Artifacts - Relics of the Civil War. Site offers information about insignias of rank and branch of service, documents from the conflict, uniforms, and related collector information.
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Named Campaigns - Civil War - The Army Flag and Its Streamers was prepared by the Office of the Chief of Military History, to provide general summaries of each of the campaigns displayed on the Army flag.

North Carolina Troops - Contains various Confederate and Federal regiments from the Civil War Period.

Photographic History of the Civil War - An etext of the 1912 10 volume edition, in PDF files of 50 page segments per volume. A rich collection of photographs, maps and memoirs of the great war.

RareMap Collection - American Civil War - Pictures of maps used in the conflict.

Religion in the Civil War: The Northern Side - Overview, online resources, and guidance for classroom discussion. On TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center.
Meta Description: [ an interactive curriculum enrichment service designed to help teachers of American history bring their students to a greater understanding of the role religion has played in the development of the United States ]

Remembering The Civil War - A history of the war to preserve its memories.
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Scots in the Civil War - The stories of men and women born in Scotland who fought in the American Civil War.

404 Storypath: A Nation Divided - A social studies curriculum unit in the Storypath series dealing with the Civil War, specifically the area around Chattanooga.

The American Civil War - The Struggle to Preserve the Union - The site includes an examination of the causes, biographies of Northern and Southern leaders, battlefield parks, and photographs the locations and participants.
Meta Description: [ A look at the causes, characters, and history of the American Civil War ]

The American Civil War from 1861-1865 - Contains information and links about Lincoln, Lee, Grant, Gettysburg, Appomattox, Bull Run, Antietam, other battles and Civil War History.
Meta Description: [ The American Civil War from 1861-1865 with Lincoln, Lee, Grant, Gettysburg, Appomattox, Bull Run, Antietam, other battles and Civil War History. ]

The Civil War - The American Battlefield Protection Program's site for Civil War Battlefields and related issues. On-line publications, features, publications to order, and links to National Civil War Parks.
Meta Description: [ The American Battlefield Protection Program's site for Civil War Battlefields and related issues ]

The Civil War Home Page - Comprehensive collection of Civil War related links, photos, letters and diaries, documents, and battle reports.
Meta Description: [ The Civil War Home Page brings together thousands of pages of Civil War material including information on Battles, Documents, Associations, Letters & Diaries, Research Records, Biographical Information, Photos, Reenacting and Unit Information. ]

The Historical New York Times Project - 1860-1866 - Digitized text for Civil War Years 1860-1866.

The History Education Homepage - Includes Civil War personalities, battles, and causes for the conflict.

The History Place - U.S. Civil War 1861-1865 - An easy-to-use American Civil War timeline with many original photographs and interesting quotes.
Meta Description: [ At The History Place, an easy to use Timeline with many photos and interesting quotes. ]

The Jesse James Scrapbook - Civil War on the Western Border -- a summary from Bleeding Kansas to the surrender, including rarely seen newspaper articles.

The New York City Draft Riots of 1863 - An illustrated account of five days of mayhem in July 1863, which included the lynching of eleven black men.
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The Valley of the Shadow, Two Communities in the American Civil War - Hypermedia archive of thousands of primary sources. Follows two communities before, during, and after the American Civil War, Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

The War of the Rebellion in Cornell University's Making of America - Complete online text of the Official Records of the Civil War.

The Western Theater in the Civil War - Information about the Army of the Cumberland and George H. Thomas source page and the Army of Tennessee and Braxton Bragg source page.
Meta Description: [ About Civil War Army of the Cumberland (prototype of the modern army) and its commanders George H. Thomas, William S. Rosecrans, Don Carlos Buell, and Robert Anderson ]

This Week in the Civil War - A weekly updated day by day account of the American Civil War.
Meta Description: [ This Week in the Civil War, A weekly updated day by day account of the American Civil War. After his re-election, President Lincoln pushed Congress to pass the 13th Amendment and end slavery forever in the United States. As a gesture of wartime unity, Lincoln wanted bipartisan support for the ... ]

U.S. Army Military History Institute - Provides searchable databases of bibliographical and biographical holdings and unit histories; online access to document descriptions and photographs.

U.S. CivilWar Center - Site promotes the study of the American Civil War.

US Civil War Generals - A concise index to the generals who fought on both sides of the US Civil War, and has been specifically prepared for the Internet.

US Civil War Online - Provides discussion forums, links, and information about the War Between The States
Meta Description: [ US Civil War Online provides Inofrmation, Discussion, Photos and Historical data about the War Between The States in the West with a focus on Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Illinois. ]

US Civil War: Internet Modern History Sourcebook - A series of historical primary on-line resources intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in American history.

404 West Point Atlas - Follow the events of the Civil War with digital versions of maps created by the United States Military Academy's Department of History.

Wikipedia: Origins of the Americal Civil War - Four-part article exploring the causes of the conflict.