A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet: 22 Graphic Novels About Slavery and the Civil War for High Schoolers

Although I know of certain media specialists who think of graphic novels as comic books, they need to take another look. I have seen students excited to read graphic novels. After all, reading is reading, right? Here's a list of graphic novels that will get your students interested in reading....and they will learn in the process!

Action Presidents #2: Abraham Lincoln

The Battle First Bull Run:The Civil War Begins

Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War

The Battle of the Wilderness: Deadly Inferno

Big Bad Ironclad! A Civil War Steamship Showdown

The Bluecoats: Volume 3- The Skyriders- historical fiction

The Bluecoats: Volume 4- The Greenhorn- historical fiction

The Civil War: 1850-1876

Civil War Adventure: Book 1

The Crisis: Classics Illustrated Comic

Fight for Freedom: The Cartoon Chronicles of America

Gettysburg: The Graphic History of America's First Battle and the Turning Point of the Civil War

Grant vs Lee: The Graphic History of the Civil War's Greatest Rivals During the Last Year of the War

Guts and Glory: The American Civil War