Cover Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

Executive Summary

Interpretation of
the Civil War

Accomplishments
to Date

Review of Current Conditions

Future of Civil War Interpretation

Projected Future Work

Obstacles to Success

Addenda

Wilson's Creek NB

Addendum Item A
Department of the Interior
FY2000 Appropriations
Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference

Title I - page 96 The managers recognize that Civil War battlefields throughout the country hold great significance and provide vital historic educational opportunities for millions of Americans. The managers are concerned; however, about the isolated existence of this Civil War battle sites in that they are often not placed in the proper historical context.

The Service does an outstanding job of documenting and describing the particular battle at any given site, but in the public displays and multi-media presentations, it does not always do a similarly good job of documenting and describing the historical social, economic, legal, cultural and political forces and events that originally led to the larger war which eventually manifested themselves in specific battles. In particular, the Civil War battlefields are often weak or missing vital information about the role that the institution of slavery played in causing the American Civil War.

The managers direct the Secretary of the Interior to encourage Civil War battle sites to recognize and include in all of their public displays and multimedia educational presentations the unique role that the institution of slavery played in causing the Civil War and its role, if any, at the individual battle sites. The managers further direct the Secretary to prepare a report by January 15, 2000, on the status of the educational information currently included at Civil War sites that are consistent with and reflect this concern.

Addendum Item B
Civil War Site Statistics (1999 Servicewide Interpretive Report)
Click here to view table

Click here to view table

Addendum Item C
Civil War Sites: Fee Demonstration Funds/ Interpretation

Addendum Item D
NPS Historians at Civil War Battlefield Sites

Addendum Item E
Road to Disunion: Selected Bibliography on the
Causes of the American Civil War

Boritt, Gabor S., ed. Why the Civil War Came. New York: Oxford Univer sity Press, 1996.

Faust, Drew Gilpin. The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (First published in 1970.)

Freehling, William W. The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War. New York: Oxford University, 1994.

The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Klien, Maury. Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Levine, Bruce. Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War. New York: Hill and Wang, 1992.

McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.

Miller, William Lee. Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

Morrison, Michael A. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Perman, Michael., ed. Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction: Documents and Essays. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Company, 1991.

Stampp, Kenneth M., ed. The Causes of the Civil War. New York: Touch stone, 1991.

Woodworth, Steven E., ed. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996.
[See especially Part IV A Causation B Events Leading to the War.@]

Causes of the Civil War, http://users.aol.com/jfepperson/causes.html.
[Primary documents.]

Appomatox Courthouse NHP

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/ICWS/icws_addend.htm