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Pdm: American Civil War Music
A comprehensive list of Civil War era songs arranged by year. Many of these are little-known. Hear the song and read the lyrics. Requires QuickTime.
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Backstory Radio
Back Story Radio: Civil War 150th: I. The Road to Civil War [Rebroadcast]
Rebroadcast of Part I of a two part series on the beginnings of the Civil War in which the American History Guys discuss the six months prior to Lincoln's election and the road to war. Audio and transcripts are provided in segments.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: The Civil War and the Constitution
Begins a discussion of how the Civil War tested and transformed the American political system.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 14: Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests
Southern states after the Civil War devised many methods for preventing African Americans from voting.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 4: Treatment After Civil War
Today we learn how some northern states granted increasing rights to African Americans. In the South, the situation was quite different.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights Before Civil War Pt. 10: Not Slaves but Not Free
Even free African Americans living in the North in the nineteenth century were not treated as full citizens.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights Before Civil War Pt. 12: The Ideal of Equality
The ideal of equality was stated in the Declaration of Independence. Abolitionists and African Americans used this as an argument against segregation.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 9: Moral/political Motivations
After the Civil War, Republicans had both moral and political reasons to support the civil rights of African Americans.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 10: The Fourteenth Amendment
After the Civil War, Republicans had both moral and political reasons to support the civil rights of African Americans. This led to the Fourteenth Amendment.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 5: Challenges to Civil Rights
On today's podcast, we learn about economic interests that worked against the expansion of civil rights for African Americans after the Civil War.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 7: Threats and Intimidation
In southern states after the Civil War, African Americans were systematically denied basic civil rights. Vigilante groups engaged in campaigns of terror against African Americans.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights Before Civil War Pt. 11: Dred Scott v. Sanford
The Supreme Court in 1857 thought it could avoid war by finding that African Americans were not citizens. The effect was precisely the opposite.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights Before Civil War Pt. 9: Corruption in State Governments
State governments proved to be corruptible early in American history with the advent of the railroad.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 17: Self Reliance
Rutherford B. Hayes refused to enforce the Civil War Amendments. This led to the birth of the civil rights movement.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 13: The Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment was intended to protect the rights of African Americans to vote. It worked, for a while.
American Public Media
American Public Media: Radio Fights Jim Crow
A report on early radio programs that were used by the federal government and civil rights activists to ease racial tensions during World War II.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 12: Passage of 14th Amendment
It wasn't easy to pass the Fourteenth Amendment. Even the President was against it.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 11: Due Process
The due process and equal protection clauses are considered by many scholars to be the most important clauses in the Constitution. Find out why on today's podcast.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt.15: Federal Bill of Rights
The Supreme Court had an opportunity in 1873 to extend the protections of the federal Bill of Rights to the states. It decided not to.
Digital History
Digital History: Historical Music
Listen to examples of dozens of examples of American music across U.S. history. Find music from World War I, jazz, minstrel music, and music from the Civil War, among others. A great resource. Quicktime is required for this source.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 8: A Reign of Terror
When Union troops left the South, a reign of terror began. And Congress could not stop it.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 6: Black Codes
What were the Black Codes? Find out on today's podcast.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: The Fourteenth Amendment
After the Civil War, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment. These were efforts to protect the rights of African Americans.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Fifteenth Amendment: Threats and Violence
Even though African Americans were given the right to vote after the Civil War, most experienced barriers to voting and did not exercise this right until the civil rights movement one hundred years later.