Selected Timelines & Maps on the American Civil War

Websites with Timelines and Maps

 

Websites with Timelines

Institution: OmniAtlas, free Interactive Historical Atlas, Auckland, New Zealand.

OmniAtlas provides interactive timelines with accompanying maps portraying the American Civil War. The timelines and maps show the main events of the conflict with a short description of each event.

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Institution: National Park Service, Gettysburg, PA

The National Park Service presents users with an exhaustive timeline of key events and battles of the American Civil War. Each battle includes a link to a longer description of the history and outcome and often includes artwork illustrating the event.

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Institution: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Ken Burns

Starting in 1787, the Public Broadcasting Service has created this timeline to correspond with Ken Burns’ renowned 1990 documentary on the American Civil War. Each time period is divided into segments so users can refer to the episode of the documentary that explains it. In this way, users can obtain a multi-layered visual experience of the conflict.

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Websites with Maps

Institution: United States Military Academy, Westpoint, NY

In 1938, the predecessors of today's Department of History at the United States Military Academy began developing a series of campaign atlases to aid in teaching cadets a course entitled, “History of the Military Art.” Since then, the Department has produced over six atlases and more than one thousand maps, encompassing not only America’s wars but global conflicts as well. The site on the Vietnam War contains fourteen separate maps of various regions and conflicts connected to the First and Second Indochina Wars, covering everything from the NVA plan for 1965 to the Fall of Saigon.

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Institution: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Ken Burns

This site with fifteen maps on important campaigns and battles of the American Civil War (1861–65) is provided on the website of the award-winning PBS documentary by Ken Burns on the Civil War, which brings this conflict to life through the use of archival photographs, maps, diaries, letters, and other sources. It covers the politics, military campaigns, and the so-called home front before, during, and after America's bloodiest conflict.

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Institution: Vox, by Timothy B. Lee and Matthew Yglesias

These thirty-seven maps with explaining comments, provided by two senior correspondents working for the online newspaper Vox explain the Civil War — why it started, how the Union won, and what the aftermath of this conflict was.

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Institution: Digital Collections, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

This website provided by the Digital Collections, Library of Congress, brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia. Among the reconnaissance, sketch, and theater-of-war maps are the detailed battle maps made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss for Generals Lee and Jackson, General Sherman's Southern military campaigns, and maps taken from diaries, scrapbooks, and manuscripts all available for the first time in one place. Most of the items presented on the site are documented in Civil War Maps: An Annotated List of Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress, compiled by Richard W. Stephenson in 1989. New selections from 2,240 maps and 76 atlases held by the Library will be added monthly.

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Institution: University of South Florida, College of Education, Tampa, FL

This collection of 137 historical maps of the American Civil War (1861–65) provided by the College of Education of the University of South Florida, includes regional seats of the war, battle and campaign maps, and territories held by Confederate and Union forces.

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