Project
Civil War Washington Collaboration
Division of Research Programs
Photo caption
The U.S. Capitol under construction, 1860.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Photo caption
The U.S. Capitol under construction, 1860.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Civil War Washington examines the U.S. national capital from multiple perspectives as a case study of social, political, cultural, and medical/scientific transitions provoked or accelerated by the Civil War. The project draws on the methods of many fields—literary studies, history, geography, computer-aided mapping—to create a digital resource that chronicles the war's impact on the city.