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AMERICAN REVOLUTION ... AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ... OTHER WARS
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The American Revolution: First Phase
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/amh-03.htm
Good detailed overview of war, strategies and maneuvers with maps
The American Revolution
http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/
Essays that explore the Revolution and its issues
The American Revolution and Its Era
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html
Maps and charts of North America and West Indies , 1750-1789
Battles of the American Revolution
http://www.afn.org/~sar_gvil/battles.htm
Table with battles listed, date, commander and a count of wounded, captures and killed.
Battle of Brandywine
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ppet/brandywine/page1.asp
Why did Washington lack good information about the battlefield?
Historic Valley Forge
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/index.html
Winter of 1777-78--people, George Washington, history
The History Place : American Revolution
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution
Information leading up to, during, and after the war
Intelligence in the War of Independence
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/warindep/frames.html
History of the use of intelligence during the war—secret committees, secret writing, codes and ciphers
Military Actions of the American Revolution
http://www.sar.org/history/docsbatt.htm
List of battle sites with descriptions
Sons of the Revolution
http://www.srcalifornia.com/
Information on colonial history, biographies, statistics, primary sources, etc
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CIVIL WAR
The American Civil War
http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm
Links to art, magazines, maps, movies, museums, music, photographs and images, diaries, letter and memoirs, documents and records, uniforms and more
American Civil War Collections
http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar
Transcriptions and digital images of manuscripts
American Civil War.com
http://americancivilwar.com
Index--alphabetical list of battles, maps, statistics; also direct access to some battles
American Civil War Ethnography
http://oswego.org/staff/tcaswell/cw/index.html
Examine culture in the United States during the Civil War; links to photographs
The American Civil War Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
Links gathered by subculture or category; also includes images of wartime, documentary records, rosters, and music
American Civil War Resources
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/civwar
Print collection, manuscript resources, and collection with inventories, images, or letters and diaries written by soldiers from both sides
Civil War@Smithsonian: Collecting, Preserving, Remembering the National Experience
http://civilwar.si.edu/
Information and pictures on all kind of topics associated with the war
Civil War Treasures from the NY Historical Society
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html
Digital images; search by keyword or browse by subject or name
Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html
Links to diaries, letters, documents, photographs, and prints
A Nation Divided: The United States Civil War, 1861-65
http://historyplace.com/civilwar
Chronology, timeline, links
Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/
Collection of full text poetry and music indexed by author, title, first line; no sound clips
Remember the Ladies
http://geocities.com/heartland/4678/kate.html
Civil war spies, soldiers, nurses, physicians, sanitary commission, writers, lawyers, and publishers; some have small photographs
Selected Civil War Photographs
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
Search by keyword, browse subject index, or view timeline
Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War
http://www.civilwarhome.com/
Links organized by sections--battles, biographies, medicine, naval war, etc
The United States Civil War Center
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/
Index of Civil War information on the web, cemetery records, researching people, slavery
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
Primary source documents, images, sounds, and historical discussions about 2 counties that were 100 miles apart and on opposite sides of the Mason-Dixon Line during the war
Women Soldiers of the Civil War
http://www.archives.gov/
Article discussing and documenting several of the hundreds of women who served as soldiers in both armies during the war
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OTHER WARS
Back to the Battlefield: Battle of Little Big Horn
http://www.cbhma.org/
Chronology with descriptions and theories of battle
Fighting for a Continent: Newspaper Coverage of the English and French Wars
http://earlyamerica.com/review/spring97/newspapers.html
Overview of the war based on excerpts from 2 newspapers of the time
Indian Wars
http://www.gbso.net/skyhawk/indianwa.htm
Brief outlines and overviews of the wars
US-Mexican War (1846-48)
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/
All kinds of information, timeline, resources—in English and Spanish
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