Secession Era Editorials Project
http://history.furman.edu/~benson/docs/
Furman University is digitizing editorials about the secession crisis and already includes scores of them on this site.

John Brown Trial Links
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Brown.html
For information about the trial of John Brown, this site provides a list of excellent links.

Abraham Lincoln Online

Abraham Lincoln and Slavery
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1990/ch5_p6.htm
This site discusses Lincoln's views and action concerning slavery, especially the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Bleeding Kansas
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/galbks.htm
Contemporary and later accounts of America's rehearsal for the Civil War make up this University of Kansas site.

The American Civil War Homepage
http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~hoemann/cwarhp.html
This site has a good collection of hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War.

The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow.html
This project tells the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the Civil War. 
It includes a narrative and an electronic archive of sources.

Civil War @ Charleston
http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/cwlayout.html
This site covers the history of the Civil War in and around Charleston, South Carolina.

Abraham Lincoln Association
http://www.alincolnassoc.com/
This site allows you to search digital versions of Lincoln's papers.

The Papers of Jefferson Davis
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pjdavis/jdp.htm
This site tells about the collection of Jefferson Davis Papers and includes a chronology of his life, a family genealogy, some key 
Davis documents on-line, and a collection of related links.

Crisis at Fort Sumter
http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/CrisisMain.html
This well-crafted use of hypermedia with assignments or problems explains and explores the events in and around the start of the Civil War.

U.S. Civil War Center
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/
This is a site whose mission is to "locate, index, and/or make available all appropriate private and public data regarding the Civil War 
and to promote the study of the Civil War from the perspectives of all professions, occupations, and academic disciplines."

Civil War Women
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html
This site includes original documents, links, and biographical information about several women and their lives during the Civil War.

Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alrintr.html
Part of the American Memory series with an introduction, time line, and gallery.

Selected Civil War Photographs
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html
Library of Congress site with more than 1000 photographs, many from Matthew Brady.

A Time Line of the Civil War
http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html
A complete time line of the Civil War, well illustrated with photographs.

National Civil War Association
http://www.ncwa.org/info.html
One of the many Civil War reenactment organizations in the United States.

• The Civil War Home Page
• Great American History
• The Central Virginia Battlefields Trust
• www.CivilWar.com
• Young Heroes of History - Historical Fiction for Children
• American Civil War
• Poetry & Music of the War Between the States
• Civil War in Miniature
• Gettysburg - Historical Information
• Cyndi's List: U.S. - Civil War / War for Southern Independence
• Civil War Potpourri Page
• The Underground Railroad
• Ulysses S. Grant Home Page
• Abraham Lincoln Research Site
• Civil War Battle Summaries by State
• CivilWarAlbum
• Women in the Civil War
• History Channel: Secession & Civil War

Reconstruction

Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes
http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/hayes/search/index.cfm
The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio maintains this searchable database of Hayes's writings.

Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/
The New York Public Library—Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture site contains numerous visuals.

Freedmen and Southern Society Project (University of Maryland, College Park)
http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/home.html
This site contains a chronology and sample documents from several print collections or primary sources about emancipation and freedom in the 1860s.

Andrew Johnson
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/aj17.html
White House history of Johnson.

Ulysses S. Grant
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/ug18.html
White House history of Grant.