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.