US CIVIL WAR
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Here’s a database containing basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War, maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration.
Massachusetts Civil War Research Center
Another database of over 150,000 soldiers, sailors and marines as well as brief histories of a number of Massachusetts regiments which fought in the Civil War.
The National Park Service Civil War Website
Look under Civil War Parks for information about the Andersonville Prison Camp.
PHOTOGRAPHY
The Library of Congress Civil War Selected Photograph Collection
This collection contains 1,118 photographs and including scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects.
The American Museum of Photography
An online museum with more than five thousand individual images: from the earliest daguerreotype portraits to the work of Ansel Adams, and including an excellent exhibit about spirit photography.
Common-place
Common-place is sort of an academic journal, sort of an online magazine, where we found a wonderful article about early photographic techniques.
George Eastman House
The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film is the world’s leading collections of photography and motion pictures.
The Center for Civil War Photography
This site has tons of detailed information about Civil War photography, its methods and practioners, as well as reproductions of many war photos.
Getty Museum Video Gallery
This video from the multimedia archives of the J. Paul Getty Museum is by far the best step-by-step explanation we’ve seen about wet collodion photography.
SOCIAL HISTORY
The High Street Hill Association
High Street Hill is an historic neighborhood in Brookline, Massachusetts. Check out their wonderful site on the Old Burying Ground, est. 1717.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
An image database providing free and open online access to hundreds of thousands of images from the original and rare holdings of The Library, including drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and more.
Civil War letters from the Virginia Tech Digital Library & Archives
Transcripts of the letters of Felix Voltz, a drummer boy in the 187th New York Volunteer Regiment during the Civil War.
The Valley of the Shadow
A digital archive of some fascinating primary sources that document the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the Civil War. Part of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia.
SPIRITS
The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult
An exhibition of spirit photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.
The Museum of the Macabre
An online museum for all things haunted.
