Antebellum & Civil War (1831 - 1865)

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Reference Books

American Eras - vols. 4-5 - R 973.8 A5123
Annals of America - vols. 6-9 (primary sources) - R 973 A613, 2003
Biographical Dictionary of the Union - R 973.7 B6153
Civil War America, 1850-1875 - R 973.6 S4644 c
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War - R 973.7 E564
Encyclopedia of the Confederacy - R 973.713 E563
Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad - R 973.7115 H8856 e
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America - vols. 1-2 - R 973.03 G8165
The Political Lincoln: An Encyclopedia - R 973.7 P7693
Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia - R 306.362 S6315
Women in the American Civil War - R 973.7082 W8724

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Online Reference

American National Biography (also in print) – Portraits of more than 17,000 American men and women.
History Database Center – Includes biographies, subject entries, chronologies, primary sources, maps and charts, and  images.
Salem History – Includes the complete content of Milestone Documents, The Decades, Great Lives from History, and Great Events from History.

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Overviews

The American Civil War: A Hands-On History - floor 2 - 973.7 O523 a
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era - floor 2 - 973.73 M1725 b
Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War - floor 2 - 973.7 K645 d
A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln - floor 2 - 973.7 F6737 h
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 - floor 2 - 973.7 A9774 i
Manifest Destiny and the Expansion of America - floor 2 - 973.5 M2783
The Nation Comes of Age: A People's History of the Ante-Bellum Years - floor 2 - 973 S6565 n
A Ruined Land: The End of the Civil War - floor 2 - 973.714 G6173 r

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Magazines and Newspapers

American Periodicals Series Online – More than 1500 American magazines and newspapers published between 1741 and 1940.
JSTOR – Full text of more than 950 scholarly journals.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers  – Search the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and New York Tribune.

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Web Sites (primary-source materials)

Abraham Lincoln Papers - Library of Congress - An extensive collection of Lincoln's incoming and outgoing correspondence, drafts of speeches, and notes.
African-American Mosaic: Abolition - Library of Congress - Antislavery petitions and other sources that document the struggle to abolish slavery.
American Slave Narratives - University of Virginia - An online anthology of interviews conducted with former slaves, who describe their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. [NOTE: The Library has a complete collection of these narratives on microfilm]
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877 - Library of Congress - A selection of interviews, photos, and maps that provide an overview of the North and the South in the Civil War and the life of the soldier.
Civil War Women - Duke University - Profiles of three Civil War-era women through their diaries and papers.
Documenting the American South - University of North Carolina - Thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, letters, oral history interviews, and songs that highlight southern history, literature, and culture; one of the collections features the Southern homefront during the Civil War.
The Valley of the Shadow - University of Virginia - An extensive archive of sources depicting two communities, one Northern and one Southern, at the time of the Civil War; includes newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, and census records.

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