Resources
Great Civil War Projects You Can Build Yourself

Books

• Beard, D.C.The American Boy’s Handy Book. David Godine, 1998.
• Bolotin, Norman. Civil War A to Z: A Young Readers’ Guide to Over 100 People, Places, and Points of Importance.Dutton Children’s Books, New York, 2002
• Brackman, Barbara. Quilts from the Civil War. C&T Publishing, Lafayette, California, 1997.
• Chang, Ina. A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War. From Young Readers’ History of the Civil War series. Lodestar Books, New York, 1991.
• Corrick, James A. Life among the Soldiers and Cavalry. The Civil War series, Lucent Books, San Diego, 2000.
• Currie, Stephen. Women of the Civil War. Women in History series, Lucent Books, 2003.
• Damon, Duane. When This Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Home Front. Lerner Publications, Minneapolis, 1996.
• Davis, Burke. The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts. Wings Books, New York, 1996.
• Hakim, Joy. A History of US: War, Terrible War (Volume 6).Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Hesse, Karen. A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin. Dear America series. Scholastic, New York, 1999.
• Langellier, John P. Terrible Swift Sword: Union Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry, 1861- 1865. Chelsea House Publishers, Philadelphia, 2002.
• Luchetti, Cathy. Medicine Women: The Story of Early-American Women Doctors. Crown, New York, 1998.
• McPherson, James M. Fields of Fury: the American Civil War. Atheneum Books for Young readers, New York, 2002.

Great Civil War projects

• Murphy, Jim. The Boys’ War. Clarion Books, 2002.
• O’Brien, Patrick. Duel of the Ironclads: The Monitor vs. The Virginia. Walker & Company, New York, 2003.
• Rappaport, Doreen. No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance.
• Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002.
• Roca, Steven Louis. “Presence and precedents: The USS Red Rover during the American Civil War, 1861-1865.” Civil War History, July 1998.
• Varhola, Michael J. Everyday Life During the Civil War. Writer’s Digest Books, 1999.