| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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The Crisis of the Union: An Electronic Archive about the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War, http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/civilwar/. Created and maintained by the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Imaging (sceti), with support from the Library Company of Philadelphia and sas Computing. Reviewed June 27–29, 2006.

The Crisis of the Union is an archive featuring documents and illustrations from the Civil War era. The material consists primarily of published material from government documents and a variety of newspapers and magazines drawn largely from the holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia. A full search of the Web site returns 224 different documents, including thirty-three speeches mostly from prominent northern politicians (the speeches include Charles Sumner's 1856 "Crime against Kansas," William Henry Seward's 1858 "Irrepressible Conflict," and Abraham Lincoln's 1860 "Cooper Institute"). That emphasis reflects the project's origin, which was as an exhibition for the Library Company on the early Republican party. The result is a somewhat narrow but useful collection of major documents presented in an accessible format. Teachers will find the site a valuable resource for obtaining material for classroom use.

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