Civil War History (Teaching with Historic Places)

Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses historic places in National Parks and in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.

Lessons related to other military and war time history can be found at Military & Wartime History.

Here you’ll find place-based educational resources relating to Civil War history. Discover more resources at the Teaching with Historic Places homepage.

Featured Lesson Plans

Andersonville: Prisoner of War Camp

This lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration file, "Andersonville National Historic Site".

Civil War at Our Doorstep

The following accounts are recollections from three white women who experienced the Battle of Prairie Grove first-hand.

The Siege and Battle of Corinth

Many military historians consider the American Civil War the first modern war, the town of Corinth Miss. was the site of adaption.

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