These links to information about the Civil War, the Underground Railroad and quilting provide further resources for your study. We hope you find them useful and informative. We check them periodically, but we cannot be responsible for their availability or content. If you see problems with response or content at any of these sites, please notify that site's webmaster.

Civil War - Michigan

• Battle Flags: Michigan and the Civil War (Michigan Government Television)
• George Armstrong Custer(Monroe County Library System)
• Department of Michigan Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
• Michigan in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Donald L. Harvey
• Rally Round the Flags - an exhibit of Michigan's battle flags
• Third Battery, First Michigan Light Artillery - Battery C of the First Regiment of Michigan Light Artillery

Civil War - General

• The American Civil War Homepage
• Camp Life: Civil War Collections from Gettysburg National Military Park (National Park Service)
• Children of the Civil War Teachers' Guide based on COBBLESTONE Issue, December 1999 (Vol. 20, No. 9)
• The Civil War Home Page
• Civil War Medicine Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences)
• Civil War Music (ArtsEdge Lesson Plan from "The Light in the Storm" Curriculum Unit, The Kennedy Center)
• Civil War Studies at The Smithsonian Associates
• Civil War Flags Gettysburg National Military Park Kidzpage)
• The Civil War Letters of Galutia York
• Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction (1830's - 1890's) (Rutgers University Libraries)
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (National Park Service)
• Civil War Women, Archival Collections (Special Collections Library, Duke University)
• Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.)
• Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
• Letters of a Boy in Blue: Life at Old Camp Randall (Wisconsin Electronic Reader)
• MOLLUS (Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States)
• National Museum of Civil War Medicine
• Plug Ugly (An American Civil War web site created by Lowell Boileau)
• Selected Civil War Photographs (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
• Symbols on Honor: Civil War Flags in the NPS Collections (National Park Service)
• Time Line of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The Ulysses S. Grant Information Center
• Unit VI - "Now We Are Engaged in a Great Civil War": 1848-1880 - Lessons for the primary grades from "Crossroads: A K-16 American History Curriculum" (The Educator's Reference Desk)
• The United States Civil War Center, Louisiana State University
• Wartime Correspondence (Language Arts Activity, Houghton Mifflin Company)

Slavery and the Underground Railroad

• Michigan Freedom Trail Commission
• Michigan Freedom Trail Lessons, lesson plans from the Michigan Freedom Trail Commission
• African Americans in History (Institute for African American Studies, University of Georgia)
• The African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The African-American Mosaic. (A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture)
• Africans in America (PBS)
• The Emancipation Proclamation (National Archives and Records Administration)
• The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 - from the Michigan Freedom Trail Lessons of the Michigan Freedom Trail Commission
• National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (National Park Service)
• Taking the Train to Freedom. The Underground Railroad Study (National Park Service)
• The Underground Railroad in Canada, Parks Canada

Quilts

• Quilting a Legend: African-American Folk Artist Harriet Powers Was Born October 29, 1837 (America's Library, Library of Congress)
• The Poetry and Prose of Quilting
• Quilts, Counterpanes and Throws: A Selection from the National Collection (Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Behring Center)
• Quilts, Quilters, Quilting, and Patchwork in Fiction for Children and Young Adults (A Bibliography)

Contact the Michigan Historical Center.

Updated 08/19/2010