Civil War Traveling Trunk Resources
Links to help teachers prepare for their week with the Traveling Trunk
Basic guidelines
- Teacher's Manual
- Traveling Trunk Inventory
- Traveling Trunk Inventory with Photos
- How to Use the Traveling Trunk Video
Lesson plans and activities (not included in the trunk)
- American Battlefield Trust Traveling Trunk Lesson Plans
- Remembering Slavery Lesson Plan
- Union Documents
- Confederate Documents
- Clothing and Accoutrements
- Canister Model Guide
- Over 18
Fact sheets, pamphlets, and other resources
- Union and Confederate Flag Guide
- An Introduction to Small Arms of the Civil War
- The Language of Nineteenth Century Etiquette Books
- "Smoke Not" - Pamphlet on the drawbacks of smoking
- "Weeping, Sad, and Lonely" - Mourning in the nineteenth century
- Fife Guide, Finger Chart, and Music
- Reference List for Assorted Replica Documents (assorted replica documents included in the trunk)
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