Some Useful Links

KANSAS

• Leavenworth National Cemetery (Old Soldiers' Home).
• Territorial Kansas Online:  1854-1861.  Primary documentation of Bleeding Kansas.
• John Brown's Holy War.

MISSOURI

• The Civil War in Missouri.
• Bleeding Kansas & the Missouri Border War.
• The Missouri Partisan Ranger Virtual Museum & Archives (some prefer to call them bushwhackers and guerrillas).
• The Burnt District.
• Jesse James.
• Jesse James Home (St Joseph).
• Civil War Timeline, St Joseph.
• A History of St Louis.
• Wilson Creek Battlefield.
• Battle of Wilson Creek Animated.
• Battle of Lexington State Historic Site.
• Saluda memorial in Lexington.
• Missouri's Little Dixie.
• Centralia Massacre.
• Battle of Glasgow.
• Holloway's Report of the Battle of Glasgow (The war of the rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies).
• Missouri River (MO Dept Nat Resources).
• Lewis and Clark Expedition.
• Mark Twain.
• Missouri History Museum (St Louis).
• Benton Barracks (Camp Benton).
• Scott Joplin House.
• Eads Bridge.
• Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (St Louis Gateway Arch).
• Saint Louis Historical Old Courthouse.
• The [Revised] Dred Scott Case Collection.
• Jefferson Barracks.
• Fort Davidson:  Battle of Pilot Knob.
• Community & Conflict:  The Impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks.  Exceptional website.

ARKANSAS

• Pea Ridge Battlefield.
• Battle of Pea Ridge Animated.
• Arkansas' Ozark Gateway Region.
• Central High School, Little Rock.
• Delta Cultural Center (Helena, AR).

MISSISSIPPI

• Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
• Highway 61 Revisited.
• Mississippi River (US Army Corps of Engineers).
• Mississippi Blues Trail.
• Only in the Delta.
• Robert Johnson Blues Foundation.
• Ground Zero Blues Club, Clarksdale.
• Emmett Till.
• Where the Southern Crosses the Yellow Dog.
• Vicksburg National Military Park.
• Siege of Vicksburg, Animated.
• Mississippi Civil War Sesquicentennial.
• Willie Dixon.
• Medgar Evers.
• Faulkner at Virginia.
• William Faulkner on the Web.
• Bo Diddley.
• Jimmie Rodgers.

LOUISIANA

• Jean Lafitte NHP and Preserve.
• History of New Orleans by John Smith Kendall.
• Literary History of New Orleans.

ALABAMA


GEORGIA

• Squares of Savannah, Georgia.
• Battle of Chickamauga, Animated.

SOUTH CAROLINA
NORTH CAROLINA
TENNESSEE

• Battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, Animated.
• Battle of Shiloh, Animated.

 CIVIL WAR

• The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
• Grant Homepage.  All Grant, all the time.
• The Lincoln Log.  Every minute of Lincoln's life.
• The Black Hawk War.

SLAVERY AND CIVIL RIGHTS

• Africans in America.
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938.  Incredible.
• EDSITEment lessons on slavery, the crisis of the Union, the Civil War and Reconstruction.
• Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.

THE SOUTH (GENERAL)

• Southern Spaces.  An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the American South and their global connections. 
• Random Thoughts on History.  Jim Talbott's excellent blog on Civil War and related matters.  "My musings on American, African American, Southern, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History topics and books."

BLOGS AND PERSONAL WEBSITE

• Larry Dane Brimner.
• Ardent Images.
• Sara's optics blog.

WRITING LINKS

• Missouri Writers' Guild.
• The Elegant Variation.  A Literary Weblog.
• Robin Brande.  Fiction author Robin Brande talks about writing, reading, and other vital matters.
• Tom Leveen.  Tom was previously the artistic director of Chyro Arts Venue, an all-ages performance space hosting live music, theatre, visual art, and independent film, where he enjoyed watching new, YA bands taking the stage for three years.
• Jenna Blum.
• Jonathan Evison:  West of Here.
• Publishers Marketplace.
• Ulysses.
• Stephen Foster.
• Herman Melville.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne.
• Walt Whitman.