Civil War Resources

Mr. Lamoureux/Ms. Staiger-Matatall

5/10/2004

 

 American Civil War Resources http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

American Memory http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/
From the Library of Congress, the American Memory project is a collection of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures and text from the Library of Congress Americana collections.

American Studies Web: Historical and Archival Resources http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/archives.html
An extensive list of links to historical studies, archival resources and general history resources in the field of American history.

Civil War Resources VMI Archives http://www.vmi.edu/archives/cwsource.html

Edsitement http://edsitement.neh.gov/websites_all.asp
The National Endowment for the Humanities maintains this site with links to best history, language arts and social sciences sites.

HarpWeek http://www.harpweek.com/
Full text with illustrations of Harper's Weekly from 1857-1865, searchable by keywords, by literary genre, by occupations and role in society, and browseable by date.

Historical Newspapers Online http://historynews.chadwyck.com/
In addition to indexing the Times of London (1790-1980) and The New York Times (1851-1922), this resource enables you to find the full text of every article in every issue of The Times (of London) from 1785-1870.

Index to Civil War Information http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/civlink.htm

LIBRARY RESEARCH USING PRIMARY SOURCES http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySources.html

Military History Online http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com

NARA Genealogy Records of the Civil War http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/civilwar.html

National Archives and Records Administrtation (NARA) http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html

PRIMARY SOURCES ON THE WEB http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySourcesOnTheWeb.html

The Civil War Center http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/

The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow.html

University of Colorado Department of History Guide to Resources http://web.uccs.edu/~history/index/civwar.html

US Historical Documents Online http://w3.one.net/%7Emweiler/ushda/list.htm

Yale University Library Primary Sources Research http://www.library.yale.edu/ref/err/primsrcs.htm

 

Mr. Lamoureux’s Assignment

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