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Atlases
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Atlas of the Civil War |
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by James M McPherson. |
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G1201 S5 A85 1994 |
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A companion to the American South by John B Boles |
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Contains recent historiographical essays covering the early Southern history to the present. For students of the Civil War, essays on "Religion in the Pre-Civil War South", "Women in the Post-Civil War South" and others will be of particular interest. |
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F208.2 C66 2002 |
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Library of Congress: Civil War Maps |
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Over 2600 maps and 76 atlases are in this online collection which will have monthly updates. This collection used the 1989 Library of Congress publication "Maps: An Annotated List of Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress compiled by R. Stephenson as a source for the initial collection. |
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Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Historical Maps of the United States |
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Produced by the University of Texas, this site has maps from around the world. The maps for the U.S. are grouped in categories: early inhabitants, exploration, territorial growth, military history, and later historical maps. Links to other map collections. |
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Bibliographies
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American Civil War: A Handbook for Literature and Research |
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A detailed topical guide to sources for the study of the Civil War. Each chapter has a lengthy narrative essay and an extensive bibliography. |
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Ref E456 A44 1996 |
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The American Historical Association's guide to historical literature |
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3rd ed. Contains nearly 27,000 annotated citations (primarily to English language works) divided into forty-eight sections; citations refer chiefly to works published between 1961 and 1992. |
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Ref D20 .A55 1995 (Ref Office) |
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American Reform and Reformers: A Biographical Dictionary |
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Ref HQ 1412. A 46 1996 |
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Civil War books; a critical bibliography by Allan Nevins |
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Ref E468 .N48 1967 |
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Reader's guide to American history by Peter J Parish |
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Ref E178 .R43 1997 (Ref Office) |
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Writings on American history American Historical Association. |
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Library has 1903,1906-40,1948-90. Precedes America History and Life. Lists articles and dissertations. |
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Z1236 .L331 |
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Biographies
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African Muslims in antebellum America : transatlantic stories and spiritual struggles |
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E444 A25 1997 |
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American National Biography |
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This revision considers American life and culture broadly, "all sects and sections, races, classes, and parties." |
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Ref Ct 213 A68 1999 |
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Bullwhip days : the slaves remember, an oral history by James Mellon |
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E444 B95 1990 |
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Five Black lives |
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The autobiographies of Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, the Rev. G. W. Offley, [and] James L. Smith. A collection of narratives originally published separately, 1855-97. Documents of Black Connecticut. |
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E444 F49 1971 |
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Five slave narratives; a compendium |
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"Reprinted from copies in the Moorland-Spingarn collection, Howard University and at the New York Public Library." |
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E444 F52 1968 |
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Great slave narratives by Arna Wendell Bontemps. |
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E444 B67 1969 |
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I was born a slave : an anthology of classic slave narratives by Yuval Taylor. |
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2 vol |
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E444 I18 1999 |
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Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet A. Jacobs |
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In addition to the print edition, this work has been digitized at several sites. The link above links to these sources, as well as recommending secondary sources for this work. |
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E444 J17 A3 2000B |
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Lay my burden down; a folk history of slavery by Federal Writers Project |
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A selective and integration of excerpts and complete narratives from the Slave narrative collection of the Federal writers' project." |
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E444 F26 1945 |
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Olive Gilbert |
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Reprint of the 1878 ed. |
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E185.97 T882 |
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The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man |
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Recollections of H.C. Bruce by Henry Clay Bruce. |
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E444 B9 1996 |
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Puttin' on ole massa |
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The slave narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup by Gilbert Osofsky. |
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E444 O8 1969 |
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Slave testimony |
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Two centuries of letters, speeches, interviews, and autobiographies by John W Blassingame. |
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E444 S57 1977 |
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Stephen A. Douglas |
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This exhibition of Special Collections from the University of Chicago Library Feb.12, 1994-June 20, 1994 has extensive notes on the life of Stephen A. Douglas. |
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The WPA Oklahoma slave narratives by T. Lindsay Baker |
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Works Progress Administration Project |
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E444 W82 1996 |
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Book - Stacks
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American slavery, 1619-1877 by Peter Kolchin |
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Good secondary source; strong on Historiography |
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E441 .K64 1994 |
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Arguing about slavery : the great battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller |
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Another good introduction to the antebellum period. |
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E338 M65 1996 |
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Ar'n't I a woman? : female slaves in the plantation South by Deborah G. White |
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Good starting point for reading about women in the South. |
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E443 .W58 1985 |
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Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era by James M. McPherson, |
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Military history which also covers political, social and economic issues. |
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E470 .M3 1988 |
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The Black military experience by Ira Berlin |
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E492.9 .B5 1982 |
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A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs: |
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Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volunteers Reprint. Originally published: Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. Volunteers, 1902 |
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E 492.94 33 RD T3 1988 |
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The bondwoman's narrative by Hannah Crafts |
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Novel written by a fugitive slave. |
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PS1449 .C6745 B65 2002 |
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Civil War Boston : home front and battlefield by Thomas H. O'Connor |
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Social history using case studies of a community. |
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F73.44 .O25 1997 |
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Climbing up to glory : |
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a short history of African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Wilbert L Jenkins. Good overview of the African-American experience. Includes useful footnotes and bibliographic essay. |
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E185.2 .J46 2002 |
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A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents |
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James D. Richardson 1897. 21 vols. Primary Source published by the U.S. Government Printing Office. |
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J81 .B96 1897 |
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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889. Private letters, 1823-1889 |
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Library also has the first 2 volumes of the Papers of Jefferson Davis. |
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E664 .D28 A4 1966 |
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Davis, Jefferson, The rise and fall of the Confederate government |
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E487 .D26 1881 |
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The Destruction of slavery by Ira Berlin |
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E185.2 .D47 1985 |
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The Educated Woman |
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Selected Writings of Catherine [sic] Beecher, Margaret Fuller, and M. Carey Thomas |
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HQ 1412 C7 1965 |
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Evans, Clement Anselm. Confederate military history; a library of Confederate States history |
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In 12 vols. written by ex-Confederates (1899) |
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E484 E9 1899 |
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For cause and comrades : why men fought in the Civil War by , James M.McPherson |
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E492.3 .M38 1997 |
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Forged in battle : the Civil War alliance of Black soldiers and white officers by Joseph Glatthaar |
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E540 .N3 G53 1990 |
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The Frederick Douglass papers by Douglass, Frederick |
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3 vol. work edited by John Blassingame |
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E449 D733 |
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Generations of captivity : a history of African-American slaves by Ira Berlin |
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Good secondary source for an introduction to slavery. |
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E441 B47 2003 |
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Gotham at war : New York City, 1860-1865 by Edward K. Spann |
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Social history case studies focusing on a particular locale. |
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F128.44 .S72 2002 |
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Grant, Ulysses S. Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant |
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E672 G76 1885 |
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Grant, Ulysses S. The papers of Ulysses S. Grant |
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SU Library has v1.-6 covering 1837-1862 |
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E660 .G756 1967 |
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Hay, John. Lincoln and the Civil War in the diaries and letters of John Hay |
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One of Lincoln's secretaries, the library also has Inside Lincoln's White House : the complete Civil War diary of John Hay (E664 .H41 A3 1999) |
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E664 .H41 A3 1988 |
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Touched with fire |
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Civil War letters and diary of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1861-1864. |
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E601 H73 2000 |
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The Jacksonian promise : America, 1815-1840 by Daniel Feller |
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Excellent introduction to the antebellum period. |
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E338 .F45 1995 |
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Lee, Robert E. The wartime papers of R. E. Lee |
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E470 .L38 1961 |
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The Letters of Margaret Fuller |
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PS 2506 A4 1983 |
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The life and writings of Frederick Douglass by Douglass, Frederick |
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Edited by Eric Foner |
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E449 .D736 1950 |
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Lincoln by David Herbert Donald |
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"Lincoln Prize, Lincoln and Soldiers Institute, Gettysburg College"--Label on jacket. |
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E457 .D66 1995 |
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Lincoln, Abraham. Collected works |
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Also Online. |
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E457.91 1953 |
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Major problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction : documents and essays by Michael Perman |
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Recommended source with both primary documents and recent articles. |
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E464 .M22 1991 |
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The Negro's Civil War |
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How American Negroes felt and acted during the war for the Union by James M. McPherson. Uses excerpts from speeches, letters, articles, and official documents to point out the military and political contributions and the feelings of Afro-Americans during the Civil War. |
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E540 .N3 M25 1965 |
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Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903. Defending the union |
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The Civil War and the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1861-1863. This is vol. 4 of his personal papers. The SU library also has vol. 1 which traces his early years. |
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SB470 .O5 A2 1977 V.4 |
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Olmsted, Frederick Law. The Cotton Kingdom; |
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A traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American slave States. Based upon three former volumes of journeys and investigations by the same author. Traveller's account by the founder of American landscape architecture. SU library has other works by this author including a "Journey into the Slave States." |
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F213 .O53 1953 |
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Ordeal by fire : the Civil War and Reconstruction by James M. McPherson. |
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Text covers not only military history but but also social, political and economic issues. |
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E468 .M23 |
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Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States |
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Reprinted from second edition, 1845 |
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HV 9469 D7 1967 |
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Roll, Jordan, roll; the world the slaves made by Eugene D Genovese |
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Good secondary source introduction to slavery |
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E443 G46 1974 |
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The slave community : plantation life in the antebellum South by John Blassingame |
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Good secondary source introduction to the topic. |
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E443 B55 1972 |
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Slavery and the American West |
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the eclipse of manifest destiny and the coming of the Civil War by Michael A Morrison Discusses the role of slavery extension in the Civil War. |
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E415.7 .M88 1997 |
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. |
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The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader : correspondence, writings, speeches |
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HQ1412 .S72 1992 |
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.The selected papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony |
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HQ1410 A2525 1997 |
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher.Uncle Tom's cabin |
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150th anniversary ed. Originally published: London : J. Cassell, 1852. |
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PS2954 U5 2002 1 |
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The Wartime genesis of free labor : the lower South by Ira Berlin. |
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E540 .N3 W3 1990 |
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The Wartime genesis of free labor : the upper South by Ira Berlin |
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E540 N3 W3 1993 |
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Within the plantation household : Black and White women of the Old South by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese |
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Good starting point for women's lives under slavery. |
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HQ1438 .A13 F69 1988 |
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Databases
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19th Century Masterfile |
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Library subscribes to three series of this citation index for nineteenth century periodicals. Fulltext links for titles in Making of America website including Harpers, Atlantic Monthly, and North American Review Can link to America, History and Life. |
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Academic Search Premier |
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Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for nearly 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 4,500 journals in the collection. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study. |
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America: History and Life |
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Complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries, providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history |
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Book Review Digest |
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In Print. Precedes Book Review Digest Plus. Print Index begins v.1 1906- |
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Index table: 2nd Floor Reference |
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Book Review Digest Plus |
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Reviews for books published after 1983. |
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Historical Abstracts |
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Annotated reference guide to history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada.) Over 2000 journals are covered in the database. Includes key historical journals as well as hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanitites. Also includes citations to book reviews and dissertations. |
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New
York Times (1851-2002) |
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1851-2002. Scanned articles from this
database. |
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Humanities Abstracts |
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Articles from core English-language journals in the Humanities. Ability to search other Wilson databases simultaneously. Links to available full-text articles. |
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Humanities Abstracts |
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Coverage of this indexing and abstracting it source is from 1984. Abstracts have been added to citations after 1994. Includes scholarly journals in the humanities as well as lesser known specialized journals. |
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JSTOR |
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Over 42 fulltext scholarly journal articles in the areas of history (including older issues of Reviews in American History)Also 8 titles in African American Studies. Database includes "a moving wall" of titles not available. The "moving wall" is usually 3 to 5 years, meaning that the current year plus the previous 3 or 5 years is not available |
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Project Muse |
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Fulltext scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, including over 40 titles in history. These titles include Journal of Social History, Civil War History, Reviews in American History and Journal of Women History. |
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Research Library Complete |
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One of the databases provided by the ProQuest service, it includes the full-text of many periodicals, academic and popular on a broad range of general reference subjects including arts, business, humanities, information studies, social sciences, and the sciences. Coverage from 1986 to the present. |
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WorldCat |
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WorldCat merges the catalogs of libraries around the world into one database and conveniently allows you to request items from other libraries through its Interlibrary loan feature. |
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Writings on American history |
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This is a print index, rather than an electronic database. However, it is the precursor to America, History and Life covering 1903-1990. |
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Z1236 L331 |
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Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedia
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ABC Clio companion to American Reconstruction |
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One volume reference work with brief entries on the Reconstruction. |
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Ref E 688. R 53 1996 |
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American Eras, Reform and Reconstruction, 1850-1877. |
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Ref E 169.1 A 471979/1997/v.5 |
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American Eras, Reform Era and Eastern U.S. Development, 1815-1850 |
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Ref e 169.1 A471979/1997 v.4 |
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Civil War Dictionary |
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One volume work with brief entries. |
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Ref E 468 B7 1959 |
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Dictionary of American History |
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Revised 2003, this encyclopedia has been revised to reflect new scholarship in history, especially social history. |
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Ref E 174 D52 |
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EH.Net Encyclopedia (Economic History Encyclopedia) |
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This high-quality website contains articles written by experts in the field. Of interest are entries under Civil War, Slavery, Confederate States of America as well as industries: baning, coal, brewing, cotton. Other articles may also be useful to students in the Civil War. |
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Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History |
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Over 2300 articles in 5 volumes, this set published in 1996 contains thematic essays and biographies on the African American community from 1619. |
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Ref E 184 A1 H35 |
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Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History |
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Lengthy thematic essays on social movements and ideas in American History. |
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Ref E 169.1 E624 |
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Encyclopedia of American History |
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v.4 Expansion and Reform 1813 to 1855 v.5 Civil War and Reconstruction 1856 to 1869. Both volumes have an A-Z arrangement with brief articles. Suggested readings follow most articles. A section on primar sources following the alphabetical section. |
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REF E 174 E53 20003 |
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Encyclopedia of American Social History |
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Ref HN 57 E 58 1993 |
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Encyclopedia of Southern Culture |
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Ref F 209 E53 1989 |
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Encyclopedia of the American Civil War |
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In addition to its encyclopedic entries on the Civil War, this set also contains 250 primary documents. 5 vols. In addition, there are five appendixes including a glossary of terms, lists of officers, battlefields and a chronlogy. |
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Ref E 468 H47 2000 |
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Encyclopedia of the American West |
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Ref 591 E 485 |
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Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War |
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Ref E 404 C93 1999 |
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Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century |
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This 3 volume work in A-Z format contains 600 articles by scholars on the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Each article is signed and contains references and a biblography. Issues, events, politics, economics, city growth are among the many topics covered in this work. |
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Ref E 169.1 E626 |
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Handbook of American Women's History |
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Ref HQ 1410/H36 1990 |
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Historical Dictionary of Reconstruction |
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Includes lengthy articles on each state. |
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Ref E 668 T66 1991 |
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Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction |
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REf E 468 R 53 2004 |
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Historical Dictionary of the United States-Mexican War |
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Ref E404 M84 1997 |
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Library of Congress. Civil War Desk Reference |
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Topical introduction to the Civil War. Includes a section on Studying the War: Research and Preservation. |
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Ref E 468 L58 2002 |
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United States and Mexico at War: Nineteenth-century expansionism and conflict |
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Ref E 404 U 66 1998 |
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Directories
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Dictionary of Afro American Slavery |
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This one volume work contains over 300 essays. Entries in the volume can range from brief paragraphs to 5 pages and have suggestions for further reading. |
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Ref E 441 D53 1988 |
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Electronic Books
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Booker T. Washington Papers |
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The Papers of Booker T. Washington have been digitized by the University of Illinois Press and are made available through the History Cooperative. The first two volumes covers the time period before the founding of the Tuskegee Institute. One of the search features is a link by date to the contents of each volume. |
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Electronic Journals
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Century Magazine |
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One of the journals in the Making of America website, Ulysses S Grant contributed a series of articles in this journal. |
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Making of America: Journal Collection |
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Includes online: The American Missionary (1878 - 1901) The American Whig Review (1845 - 1852) The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901) The Bay State Monthly (1884 - 1886) The Century (1881 - 1899) The Continental Monthly (1862 - 1864) The Galaxy (1866 - 1878) Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1899) The International Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1852) The Living Age (1844 - 1900) Manufacturer and Builder (1869 - 1894) The New England Magazine (1886 - 1900) The New-England Magazine (1831 - 1835) New Englander (1843 - 1892) The North American Review (1815 - 1900) The Old Guard (1863 - 1867) Punchinello (1870) Putnam's Monthly (1853 - 1870) Scientific American (1846 - 1869) Scribner's Magazine (1887 - 1896) Scribner's Monthly (1870 - 1881) The United States Democratic Review (1837 - 1859) |
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North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History |
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"peer-reviewed articles based on historical research that explore the religious cultures of people of African descent in the United States. While the editors are interested primarily in North America, we will on occasion publish work from other disciplines and/or that deals in a comparative way with other areas of the African diaspora, as well as with regions in Africa." |
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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation |
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From the Library of Congress:A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation comprises a variety of primary source documents from the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the first forty-three Congresses. Includes the Congressional Globe |
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Frederick Douglass National Historic Site |
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Maintained by the National Park Service, this web site provides a brief bio and links to online resources. |
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Handbooks
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A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations |
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by Kate Turabian. It is considered the authority for those working in history.(Located in the Ready Reference Collection.) |
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Ref LB 2369 .T8 1996 |
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A Students Online Guide to History |
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by Jules Benjamin. A brief online version of the author's A Student's Guide to History. |
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D16.3 B4 2001 |
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American slavery, 1619-1877 by Peter Kolchin |
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Good secondary source; strong on Historiography |
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E441 .K64 1994 |
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Debating slavery : economy and society in the antebellum American South by Mark M. Smith |
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E441 .S657 1998 |
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Reviews in American History |
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Slavery : history and historians by Peter J. Parish. |
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E441 .P367 1989 |
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History
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Encyclopedia of Women in American History |
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3 volume work which emphasizes historical time periods. Volume 1 covers 1585-1820; v.2. 1820-1900; v.3 1900-present. Each volume begins with a series of essays covering major topics which are then followed by articles. Suggestions for additional reading and signed articles add value to this reference source. |
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Ref HQ 410 E53 2000 |
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Scribner's popular history of the United States by William Cullen Bryant |
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5 vol history written close after the Civil War. |
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E178 B9226 1897 |
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Internet Sites
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America's Reconstruction: People and Politics after Civil War |
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A digitized version, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute, of a major traveling exhibition (1996-1999) curated by Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney and originally sponsored by the Valentine Museum in Richmond, Virginia. Text is by Eric Foner |
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Best of History Web Sites |
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Created and maintained by the Center for Teaching History with Technology, this web site serves as a portal for all areas of history. A variety of sites, some suitable for academic research, others more appropriate for elementary or middle school are ranked and annotated. Quotes, history news, links for teachers are also available on this site. |
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Digital History |
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"The materials on this Web site include a U.S. history textbook; over 400 annotated documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection on deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library, supplemented by primary sources on slavery, Mexican American and Native American history, and U.S. political, social, and legal history; succinct essays on the history of film, ethnicity, private life, and technology; multimedia exhibitions; and reference resources that include a searchable database of 1,500 annotated links, classroom handouts, chronologies, glossaries, an audio archive including speeches and book talks by historians, and a visual archive with hundreds of historical maps and images." Supported and maintained by the Gilder Institute and the University of Houston, it includes virtual library exhibits on the Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction era with supporting narrative by Eric Foner. Primary documents are also included on this site. |
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Guide To History Resources on the Web |
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Center for History and New Media. Indexes over 5,000 history sites with annotations for 500 of those cites plus other tools to promote the teaching of history using web resources. Many of the projects on this site are sponsored by CUNY. |
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Humbul Humanities Web: American Studies 19th Century |
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The Humbul Humanities web covers all areas of the Humanities. It has support from the University of London, Oxford and the Instiute for Historical Research. Not just a megasite of web links, each site is annotated and evaluated by subject cataloguers with expertise in their fields. |
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