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Civil War and African American Motivators Multi-Media Text Set
This is an incomplete list of highly recommended resources related to the Civil War and
African American Motivators. We envision that you will use this list as a resource to add to the
collection of materials you already have at your fingertips. We included websites as one kind
of resource as they are free and easily accessible. Short texts are another kind of resource
we’ve included. You can find some of these short texts available for download on The Treasure
Chest.
Websites:
Websites
Website Description
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/douglass/
aa_douglass_escape_1.html
Douglass's Escape from Slavery
http://postalmuseum.si.edu/letterwriting/lw04.html
National Postal Museum: Letter Writing
in America During Civil War
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/
civilwar.htm
Explanation of the causes of war;
includes glossary and timeline
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war
Resource to adapt articles for students
http://www.ushistory.com/teachers.htm
Stories from American History on
Music Videos
Short Texts:
Title
Author
Source
A Solider's Letter Home
from WWII-"The Perilous
Fight"
Public Broadcasting
System Home
Programming
Texts & Lessons for Content
Area Reading by Harvey
Daniels, pg. 163
All Aboard the
Underground Railroad
adapted by Spencer
Crew.
Toolkit Texts selected by
Stephanie Harvey & Anne
Goudvis
Grades 6-7
Inalienable Rights
adapted by Leigh
Anderson
Toolkit Texts selected by
Stephanie Harvey & Anne
Goudvis
Grades 6-7
The Freedom to Learn
adapted by James
Marten
Toolkit Texts selected by
Stephanie Harvey & Anne
Grades 6-7
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
DRAFT
Level/Other
1-6-2012
2
Goudvis
Stealing Freedom on the
Underground Railroad
Toolkit Texts selected by
Stephanie Harvey & Anne
Goudvis
(various selections)
Cobblestone - 1861 A Year
in the Civil War issue
(various selections)
Calligraphy
(various selections)
Scope
Grades 6-7
Lincoln’s America
Turning Points:
Gettysburg and
Vicksburg
Was Life Different for a
Confederate Soldier?
What’s Life Like in the
Union Army?
(various)
Kids Discover
“Slavery in the New
World”
Civil War (Kids Discover)
Teacher Created Materials
#12129
“Photo by Brady”
Daniel Spinella
Cobblestone - Click! Photos
That Made History issue, p.
5
“The Men Behind the
Man”
Daniel Spinella
Cobblestone - Click! Photos
That Made History issue, p.
7
Underground Railroad
Kids Discover
...If You Traveled the
Underground Railroad
Before the Civil War (!
861-65)
Boys’ Life
Boys’ Life (2002)
What did it mean to be a
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
DRAFT
1-6-2012
3
slave? AND Why would
you run away?
Separate Schools for
Children
The Bus Boycott
Leading the People
Some Don’t Change
A Sit-In
Untitled (“In 1946, a black
World War II veteran...”)
Civil Rights
Kids Discover
Kids Discover
Kids Discover
Kids Discover
Introduction (Segregation
laws were the products of
prejudice...)
Jackie Robinson
Edward Porter Alexander
Harriet Tubman
Jefferson Davis
The Confederacy and
After
The Columbia Encyclopedia
Poetry:
Title
Author
We Troubled the Waters
Ntozake Shange
(various poems)
Lee Bennet Hopkins
Many Thousands Gone
Virginia Hamilton
Under the Quilt of Night
Deborah Hopkinson and
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
Source
DRAFT
Other
America at War
anthology
N
1-6-2012
4
James E. Ransome
A Nation's Hope
Matt De La Pena
The Brothers' War: Civil War J. Patrick Lewis
Voices in Verse
(various poems)
Paul Negri (Editor)
Nettie’s Trip South
Ann Turner
Civil War Poetry (Dover
Thrift Editions)
YA
Drama (Songs, plays, etc.):
Title
Type (Song, play, etc.)
Our Abe Lincoln adapted
by Jim Aylesworth
Play
Red Badge of Courage
Dramatic scene by Liberty
Play
Teacher TubeDramatization of the civil
war
Play
(various plays)
Play
Read-Aloud Plays: Civil War
(Grades 4-8) by
Timothy Nolan
Causes of the Civil War:
Expanding and Preserving
the Union by Wendy
Conklin
Play
Building Fluency Through
Reader's Theater
Civil War Hero of Marye?
s Heights: Expanding and
Preserving the Union by
Debra J. Housel
Play
Building Fluency Through
Reader's Theater
(varoius plays)
Play
Readers' Theater Grd 5 & up by
Robert W. Smith
North and South
Political Cartoon
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
DRAFT
Source
1-6-2012
5
Cooperation
Political Cartoon
Vanity Fair (1862)
Doctor Lincoln’s New Elixir
of Life - For the Southern
States
Political Cartoon
New York Illustrated News
(1862)
The Battle Cry of Freedom
- Southern Version
George F. Root
The Battle Cry of Freedom
- Northern Version
George F. Root
Expository Nonfiction:
Title
Author
Level
Times and Conflicts of the Civil war
Pierce
R
If You Lived When There Was Slavery in
America
Anne Kamma
Q
If You Lived At the Time of the Civil War
Anne Kamma
Q
Life During the Civil War
Sarah Sheffeld
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Kate Harvey
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Russel Friedman
Hold the Flag High
Catherine Clinton
The Lincoln Memorial
Kristin L Nelson
Blue or Gray? A Family Divided (National
Geographic Reading Expeditions)
Kate Connell
Reconstructing America, 1865-1890
Joy Hakim
A Three-Minute Speech: Lincoln's Remarks
at Gettysburg
Jennifer Armstrong
War, Terrible War, 1855-1965
Joy Hakim
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
DRAFT
V
P
W
W
1-6-2012
6
Narrative Nonfiction:
Title
Author
Finding Lincoln
Ann Malaspina
Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson,
Co-Discoverer of the North Pole
Deborah Hopkinson
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together,
Children, and Don't You Grow Weary
Elizabeth Partridge
The Yankee at the Seder
Elka Weber
Slavery: Real People and Their Stories of
Enslavement
Reg Grant
Jackie’s Gift
Sharon Robinson
Good brother/Bad brother
James Cross Gibbons
P
Secrets of a Civil War
Anne Freemen
N
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriett Beecher Stowe
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln
Jean Fritz
Abe Lincoln's Hat
M. Brenner
Dadblamed Union Army Cow
Susan Fletcher
Silent Witness
Robin Friedman
Abe's Honest Words
Doreen Rappaport
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Civil War Soldier
David Antram
R
To Be a Slave
Julius Lester
Z
Freedom's Wings, Corey's Underground
Railroad Diary
Sharon Dennis Wyeth
P
Under the Quilt of Night
Deborah Hopkinson
P
Building a New Land
James Haskins & Kathleen Benson
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
DRAFT
Level
M
1-6-2012
7
Hybrid Nonfiction:
Title
Author
Level
Behind the Blue and The Grey
Delia Grey
O
Fields of Fury
James Madison
S
Title
Author
Level
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life
of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
My Name is Henry Bibb: A Story of Slavery
and Freedom
Afua Cooper
Open the Door to Liberty
Anne Rockwell
Nelson Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom
Abridged
Chris van Wyk
Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice
Phillip Hoose
Henry Aaron’s Dream
Matt Tavares
A Story of Freedom
Henry Bilab
S
A Strong Arm
Michelle Y Green
T
Who Was Harriet Tubman?
McDonough, Yona Zeldis
R
Harriet Tubman: The Path to Freedom
Hameray Publishing
M
Frederick Douglas
C. Welch
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the
Underground Railroad
Ann Petry
Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls
Janet Halfmann
Kids Discover Magazine- Civil War
Kids Discover Magazine- Underground
Railroad
Biographies:
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
DRAFT
1-6-2012
8
Story
Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of
Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy
Seymour Reit
Historical Fiction:
Title
Author
January's Sparrow
Patricia Polacco
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P.
Figg
Rodman Phillbrick
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P.
Figg
Rodman Phillbrick
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker: The Unlikely
Friendship of Elizabeth Keckley and Mary
Todd Lincoln
Lynda Jones
A Savage Thunder: Antietam and the Bloody
Road to Freedom
Jim Murphy
The Blue and The Gray
Eve Bunting
L
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Jeanette Winter
M
Freedom School, Yes!
Amy Littlesugar
O
Nettie's Trip South
Ann Turner
O
The Lucky Stone
Lucille Clifton
P
Freedom Crossing
M. Goff Clark
R
Ajeemah and His Son
James Berry
S
The Gold Cadillac
Mildred Taylor
S
I thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly
Joyce Hansen
S
Pink and Say
Patricia Polacco
S
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Deborah Hopkinson
S
Dear Austin
Elvira Woodruff
T
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
DRAFT
Level
1-6-2012
9
A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of
Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware,
1861
Karen Hesse
T
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a
Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859
Patricia McKissack
T
When Will This Cruel War Be Over?
Barry Denenberg
T
Which Way Freedom?
Joyce Hansen
T
How I Found the Strong: A Civil War Story
Margaret McMullan
U
Stealing Freedom
Elisa Carbone
U
Soldier's Heart
Gary Paulsen
V
Moon Over Tennessse: A Boy's Civil War
Journal
Craig Crist-Evans
W
Nightjohn
Gary Paulsen
W
Sarny: A Life Remembered
Gary Paulsen
W
Letters from a Slave Boy
Mary E. Lyons
X
Letters from a Slave Girl
Mary E. Lyons
X
Bull Run
Paul Fleischman
Y
With Every Drop of Blood
J.L. Collier and C. Collier
Y
Across Five APrils
Irene Hunt
Z
The Land
Mildred D. Taylor
Z
Little Woman
Louisa May Alcott
Z
Joe Louis My Champion
William Miller
Under the Quilt of Night
D. Hopkinson
The Glory Field
Walter Dean Meyers
X
Copper Sun
Sharon Draper
Z
A Wish After Midnight
Zetta Elliott
YA
Cecil’s Story
George Ella Lyon
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
DRAFT
1-6-2012
10
Drummer Boy
Ann Warren Turner
Abraham Lincoln Comes Home
Robert Burleigh
Charley Skeddadle
Toni Albert
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
DRAFT
1-6-2012