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Section 3 - The War Behind the Lines
Video on Robert Gould Shaw and 54th memorial in Boston

Section 4 - The War Continues
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Stephen Colbert performs the Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg Address Powerpoint Presentation (humor)

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Section 5 - The Final Phase
Who had the best Civil War facial hair? vote!

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__Useful Links__
Animated Battle Maps and Timelines From the Civil War Trust

===Balancing Sources === This interactive invites teachers to examine historical events, consider how they have been portrayed in different sources, and create a narrative that considers the various perspectives represented. Teachers examine a variety of primary sources from major eras of American History, and choose several sources to represent different perspectives of the era. This interactive should take 30-40 minutes per era to complete.

Historical Scene Investigation Children of the civil war

__Gettysburg Game__ Choose your own adventure - could you have won the battle of Gettysburg?

Torn in Two Exhibition The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library presents this exhibit in honor of the 150th Civil War anniversary, which includes lesson plans, virtual tours, guided tours, a Boston scavenger hunt, and lots of primary documents

WatchKnow - Civil War videos Link to over 140 video clips on the Civil War, from an educational site geared to K-12 students

The Civil War in Four Minutes - //**VIDEO TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE**// Great visual map of the war. One minute equals one week

Teaching the Civil War with Technology Blog and wiki site with lesson ideas and links

Civil War Trust Lesson plans and info

Center for Civil War Photography

3D American Civil War on Google

__Websites of free photographs taken during the Civil War:__

Civil War Photographs from Library of Congress

Civil War and Matthew Brady photography lesson

Pictures of the Civil War

[|Civil War Image Collection from US Military]

3D Civil War Photos 3D glasses needed!