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Background Information

• Americans at War: Society, Culture, & the Homefront — 973 A5126
  Vol. 2 covers 1816-1990 and includes many Civil War & Reconstruction topics
  

• Conspiracy Theories in American History —973.03 C755

• Encyclopedia of African American Culture & History — 973.0496 E56

• American Military History -- 973 O985

Biographies

• American National Biography — 920.073 AME

Courts & Law

• Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties-- 342.73085 E562

• Historic U.S. Court Cases 1690-1990 -- 349.73

• Encyclopedia of Historical Treaties & Alliances -- 341.3709 P558e
  • Vol. 1 contains a section on the Civil War

Speeches & Maps

• Atlas of the Civil War -- 973.7 W887a

• Speeches of American Presidents -- 353.035 POD

• My Fellow Americans: Most Important Speeches of America's Presidents -- 353.035 M995
  
  

Reference Database

• Britannica Online
  Enhanced version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

 

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Use the Library Catalog  to search for other materials in the Library.

Book stacks (second floor)

• Fields of honor -- 973.73 B368F
  
• The bloodiest day : the Battle of Antietam -- 973.733 BAI
• John Brown of Harper's Ferry : with contemporary prints, photographs, and maps -- 973.7116 SCO
• The visual dictionary of the Civil War -- 973.7 STA
• The View from Chapultepec : Mexican writers on the Mexican-American War -- 973.621 VIE
• Duel between the first ironclads -- 973.752 DAV
• They say : Ida B. Wells and the reconstruction of race -- 323.092 D252T
• Memoirs and selected letters : personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, selected letters 1839-1865 -- 973.82092 G763M
• Reading the man : a portrait of Robert E. Lee through his private letters -- 973.73092 L4798XP
  
• The Boys War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War — 973.7 MUR

EBooks (Find others in Library Catalog)

• Slave Narratives
• For a Vast Future Also: Essays from the journal of Abraham Lincoln
• At Lincoln's Side: John Hay's Civil War correspondence and selected writings
• Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth: the Civil War letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
• Mr. Dunn Browne's Experiences in the Army: the Civil War letters of Samuel W. Fiske--

Videos in our collection (second floor)

• The Civil War: 1861 The Cause [VHS] — 973.7 CIV
• Struggle for Freedom [VHS]-- 973.71 STR
• Glory [VHS] 791.4372 GLO
• Ambrose Bierce's An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge [DVD] -- 791.4372 O155
• Frederick Douglass: when the lion wrote history [VHS] -- 973.8 FRE
• Uncle Tom's Cabin [VHS]-- 791.4372 U545

Find Books & Videos Available at Other Libraries

• Search in WorldCat for materials available from other libraries.
• Bring a print out of the book you want to the front desk of the library.
• Allow up to two weeks (average is one week) for the materials to arrive.
  

 

Find Articles

Historical Databases

Issues & Controversies in American History
see Primary Documents

JSTOR
Articles from scholarly journals - some dating back to the 1800's!

Newspaper Archive
Tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages dating as far back as the 1700s.

New York Times Archive Online
Search the NY Times archive from 1851-1980. 
Hint: Use the pull down menu on the Home Page to search the eras 1851-1980.

Covers All Topics

Academic Search Premier (via Ebsco)
Multi-disciplinary database, includes scholarly journals, millions of articles in full text.

PowerSearch (via Gale)
Cross-search multiple Gale databases, including Academic OneFile, Custom Newspapers, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, and Educator's Reference Complete.

Websites

• Use the C.R.A.P. Test to evaluate your web sources.
  

• American Civil War Home Page
  http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/index.html
  • Transcripts of slave interviews. 

• The Valley of the Shadow http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/
  • Provides primary sources from two communities, one from the North and one from the South: maps, newspapers, letters & diaries, etc. Organized into three sections: The Eve of the War, The War, The Aftermath.

• African American Odessy http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
  • Link to online collections of interviews (transcripts), photographs, and more.  Collections include: From Slavery to Freedom, Born in Slavery, Frederick Douglass Papers, Slaves and the Courts.

• Civl War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/guides/cwdocs.html
  • Provides diaries, letters, journals, and other documents from women of the Civil War.  Includes a diary of a female Confederate spy, and documents from the Ladies Union Aid Society. 

• Voices from the Days of Slavery http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/
  • 23 audio recording interviews of former slaves 
  • 7 recordings also have transcripts, click here for those seven.
    
    

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