|
American Civil War Subject Guide LRC@TCC
Scope:
Causes, campaigns, politics, & leaders.
Call number areas to browse:
E433-600,
E433-438 (slavery),
E456-459 (Lincoln),
E482-489 (Confederate States of America),
G1201.S5 (atlases)
Keywords to search:
civil war, states, slavery, personal names, names of battles and campaigns
Subjects to search (Library of Congress):
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--Campaigns
United States--Causes
United States--Economic aspects
United States--Personal narratives
United States--Oratory
By state name ex. (Virginia--History--Civil War)
By battle names ex. Antietum, Gettysburg
Books. Periodicals, and Audiovisuals in our catalog: Use library subject headings and keywords in the library catalog to locate books, periodicals and audiovisuals owned by the library. You can limit your search by campus holdings, language and format (books, computer files, visual materials, etc.).
Online Reference E-Books:
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Library Resources (r):
Humanities International Complete
Academic Search Complete
Military & Government CollectionAmerica:
History and Life
Civil
War History (Journal from Project Muse)
HarpWeek:
The Civil War Era (1857-1883)
Virginia
Heritage Guides to manuscripts & archival collections in
Virginia
Internet Resources:
American
Civil War from Virginia Tech's special collections provides access
to letters and diaries from Union and Confederate soldiers. Also
includes contemporary research by graduate students.
American
Civil War Home Page includes documents, images, and maps covering
the Secession Crisis, biographical information, battles & campaigns,
state/local studies, etc.
American
Civil War from About.com provides overview, battles, colored
troops, culture, music, trivia and women. Basic facts includes
causes, costs, generals, etc.
Civil
War Maps and Civil
War Photographs from the Library of Congress American Memory
Project.
A Civil War
Soldier in the Wildcat Regiment, Tilton C. Reyonolds, comprising
164 library items, or 359 digital images, this online presentation
includes
correspondence,
photographs, and other materials dating between 1861 and 1865.
Valley
of the Shadow from UVA takes two communities, one Northern
and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil
War. The
project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for
the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta
County,
Virginia,
and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Sources include letters,
newspapers, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population
census,
agricultural census, and military records.
|