The Mathew Brady Bunch: Civil War Newspapers Amy Donnelly and Elizabeth Ridgway Arlington County (Virginia) Public Schools American Memory Fellows, 1998

The Civil War was the first American war thoroughly caught on film. Mathew Brady and his crew of photographers captured many images of this divisive war, ranging from portraits to battle scenes. These photographs--over 1,000--are in Selected Civil War Photographs 1861-1865 in American Memory.

Students become reporters, assigned to sort through these photographs and find one that will bring the war alive to their readers. They write a newspaper article based on their chosen photograph and publish it on the World Wide Web.

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Student Lesson Student Products Student Materials Photographic Analysis Form How to Write a News Article Research Guide Peer Editing Guide HTML Template Self Assessment & Peer Evaluation Final Evaluation