Union Homefront: A History in Documents
Wallace Hettle, a history professor at the University of Northern Iowa, compiled a collection of approximately 80 primary sources related to the Union homefront during the Civil War. The Union Homefront: A History in Documents collects excerpts from letters, newspapers, poems, speeches, etc., along with brief introductions that examine the circumstances and biases of each source. Professor Hettle wrote brief introductions that examine the circumstances and biases of each source. A period photograph, the source citation and the document are included in each entry. This Open Educational Resource collection is intended to be used by K-12 and higher education educators. The original materials are in the public domain. The compilation with introduction of each entry has been assigned a Creative Commons Noncommerical 4.0 attribution license. This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the original work as long as they credit Wallace Hettle for the original creation. The source documents are arranged by the year of the Civil War and then alphabetically.
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1861 - Harriet Beecher Stowe [Newspaper]
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Source Document Citation: Harriet Beecher Stowe, “The Holy War,” The London Independent, May 9, 1861.
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1861 - John Brown [Song]
John Brown
Source Document Citation: John Brown. Origin, Fort Warren. Music arranged by C. B. Marsh. Published by C. S. Hall, 256 Main Street, Charleston, Mass. Entered, according to the act of Congress. in the year , By C. S. Hall, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1861. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/amss-as106740/.