The Gettysburg Address Animated. Getting the Civil War Right. 3D American Civil War on Google Earth. 3. A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology. The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady. Background Many historians call the Civil War the central event in U.S. history. The formation of the Constitution corrected the autonomy of individual states that the Articles of Confederation did not harness. Still, the young country struggled for 75 years to find a graceful balance between the power of the federal government and the several states.
The rights of states and the issue of slavery propelled the country into civil war. The sociology of the American Civil War can be viewed through a medium that was coming of age in the middle of the 19th century: photography. Other Resources The Library of Congress has over 1,000 photographs of the Civil War in its American Memory collection.
McPherson, James. McPherson, James. The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War by historian Edward L. The Photographs National Archives and Records Administration Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer Record Group 111 Article Citation.