The American Civil War -- Reading Area Community College

The American Civil War Web Site

ReadingArea Community College

Civil War Cannon Graphic firing a cannon ball.

Readings

President Lincoln reading to his son, Tad. Mathew Brady Photograph, National Archives Collection Catton, Bruce. The Civil War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1960.

Perman, Michael. Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1998.

Lawlor, John and Waters, Linda. Selected Primary Source Documents for the Civil War. Reading Area Community College. 1999

Lawlor, John. Berks County and Pennsylvania History CD-ROM, Reading Area Community College, 1999.

Ancillary materials are on reserve in the Yocum Library or provided in class.

Preliminary Topical Areas

Pre-War Developments
Two "Fugitive from Labor" cases -- 1850 and 1860.
1850 Compromise * (search on Henry Clay) -- Page 1 -- Page 2
Bounty hunters
Christiana Riots (Pennsylvania, 1851) *
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
"Bloody" Kansas *
Dred Scott Decision *
Underground Railroad (see also Harriet Tubman) *
Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner *
President James Buchanan *
Lincoln- *Douglas * Debate
John Brown's Raid *
President Lincoln's Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

* indicates that related documents are
available at the Nation Archives website via NAIL
the National Archives Information Locator

Onset of the Civil War
Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861
Fort Sumter -- J. Davis congratulates P.T. Beauregard
First Defenders -- The Ringgold Light Artillery (graphics intensive, loads slowly)

Battle Information

The Monitor

WEB SITES OF NOTE:

The Civil War Roundtable of Eastern Pennsylvania

National Park Service Civil War Sites

Being developed by John M. Lawlor, Jr.

Send email to John M. Lawlor, Jr.