Web Links:  Secession, Civil War and Reconstruction
Dr. Chris Schutz, Tennessee Wesleyan College

 
 
Secession Crisis
PBS website on abolitionist radical John Brown
Washington Univ. website on the landmark 1857 Dred Scot Supreme Court case
Dred Scot case opinions (supporting and dissenting) (Touro Univ. Law School web page)

 
 
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The Civil War
Extensive website on the effect of the Civil War on 2 American
communities-- Augusta County, Virginia & Franklin County,
Pennsylvania (this University of Virginia site includes letters, diaries,
newspapers, speeches and church records)
Renowned photographer Matthew Brady's images
Civil War photographs (Library of Congress)

 
The Homefront during the Civil War
Three Women's Letters During the Civil War (Tennessee & Maryland)
Walt Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!" (a poetic tribute to the death of Abraham Lincoln)

 
Black Reconstruction 
Ku Klux Klan victim testimony before 1871 Congressional hearings