These are a few examples of resources.
Students: you may want to look at the Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources page of this guide. Often lesson plans link to primary resources - they may also pose interesting questions to help you focus your project.
You might also look at our guide for the current year's annual theme. You can reach it from the main History Day research guide - there are links under the page "Annual Themes".
1. Centered at the Gettysburgh National Military Park, follow the Timeline of the Civil War: https://www.nps.gov/gett/learn/historyculture/civil-war-timeline.htm, to discover battlefields and other places of historical interest. Each link takes readers out to the specific park or monument and digs deeper into why it holds a place in history.
2. A fabulous website to center on the soldiers and others whose stories are held in the Soldiers and Sailors Database - the Civil War: https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm. Students researching specific battles or battalions can find names and more information on individuals...bringing the war a little bit closer to home.
3. Follow the history of African American Attitudes toward the Civil War as presented at the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park: https://www.nps.gov/kemo/learn/historyculture/african-american-civil-war.htm. This page has links to oral histories that capture the voices of Cobb County (Georgia) residents as they discuss the War and Civil Rights.
4. The "3 R's": Reconstruction, Racism, Rights. Explore the many NPS locations that center on reconstruction: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/reconstruction/index.htm.
See also the state pages in this guide and: