I stumbled across a great site today called Picture History. It has a lot of great scans of original letters and pictures from the time period. I ran across the site while researching Grace Bedell, the young girl influential enough to convince President Lincoln to grow his beard. They have scanned and posted the letter […]

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Kansas Historical Society has a very comprehensive site that categorizes major events in Kansas history into easily browsed sections. Some of the topics include Civil War and “Bleeding Kansas.” In addition to a search engine the website provides articles and images on the topic pages. This would be a good resource for an expansion on […]

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Harpers Ferry Images – Part II I wanted to point out a few more images of Harpers Ferry that I found through American Memory (Library of Congress). Many textbooks already have pictures of Harpers Ferry, but I think students might find these interesting. Harpers Ferry, Railroad Bridge: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.03739 Harpers Ferry, Railroad Bridge destroyed: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.04106 Harpers […]

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I was looking for images of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and I found several interesting ones on the Library of Congress website. While none are from John Brown’s attack in October 1859, these are related to it. Before the raid, Brown and his men lived for several months at the Kennedy Farm in Maryland: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.md0587 […]

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