Civil War Letters

PBS Learning Media
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Resource Type
Classroom Material Lesson
Keywords
Ken Burns Civil War primary sources historical documents historical narratives letters personal letters correspondence Civil War letters Civil War correspondence narrative writing letter writing correspondents Sullivan Ballou northerners southerners confederacy union WETA
Subjects
English-Language Arts History-Social Science
Grade Levels
Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Post-Secondary
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Civil War Letters

In this lesson, students will use one of the major tools of a historian: personal letters. These primary source materials provide firsthand evidence of events and information on the perspective, cognition, values, and attitudes of the person writing the letter.
Publisher
PBS Learning Media

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