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Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn how to locate and verify information about people in Civil War photographs and how you can use this information in instructional activities.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
Posted by: Danna Bell
Amira Dehmani, a 2022 Liljenquist Family Fellow at the Library of Congress, explores the role of the Cherokee Nation in the Civil War.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Native American History
Posted by: Danna Bell
Amira Dehmani, a 2022 Liljenquist Family Fellow at the Library of Congress, explores the use of opium during the Civil War for pain management and its impact on the soldiers that used it.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
Posted by: Danna Bell
In this post by Amira Dehmani, a 2022 Liljenquist Family Fellow at the Library of Congress, Learn how the Civil War forced the Union and Confederate postal systems to evolve.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn more about Civil War Nostalgia, a early form of PTSD.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Veterans and Military History
Posted by: Danna Bell
Explore how Nina Silvia Iskandarsjach, the Summer 2021 Liljenquist Fellow for the Library of Congress learned more about some photographs in the collection by focusing on the the details in the images.
Posted in: African American History, Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
Posted by: Danna Bell
Use the ideas in this post to help students understand the importance of knowing the purpose and intended audience for a primary source.
Posted in: African American History, Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
Posted by: Danna Bell
Where can you look if you think you’ve run out of information about a person or place? How can we encourage students to be persistent researching in the face of a “dead end”? And how do we equip students with the knowledge of databases and archives, so that when they run into a historical dead end, they know where to keep looking?
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Women's History
Posted by: Danna Bell
My hope is that my work to create source materials on Civil War nurses situates nurses in the heart of the Civil War and proves their importance in the growing war historiography.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Women's History