Theme Based Inquiery Seminar
The American Civil War:
Experience, Myth and Memory
Dr. Don Dingledine

Print Resources
Electronic Resources
Internet Resources
Primary Sources
Library Department & Services

I belive this government cannot endure permanentaly half slave and half freee
Abraham Lincoln Speech June 16 1858

Print Resources
American History-General
The Annals of America E173 .A793
Dictionary of American History E174 .D52 1976
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century E169.1 .E626 2001
Encyclopedia of American Religious History BL2525.Q44 1996
Military
Oxford Companion to American Military History E181.O94 1999
African-American
Chronology of African-American History E185 .H64 1991
The African American Encyclopedia E185 .A253 1993
The African American Almanac E185 .A37 1994
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History E185.E54 1996
Southern History
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture F209 .EE53 1989
The Encyclopedia of Southern History F207.7 .H36 1990
Women's History
Handbook of American Women's History HQ1410 .H36 1990
The Encyclopedia of Women's History in America HQ1410 .C85 1996
The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century HQ1418.C58 2000
Women in World History: a Biographical Encyclopedia HQ1115.W6 1999
Electronic Resources

Database containing some full text articles
Catalogs
Resource
Discription
Searching Tips and Suggest Terms
Polk Catalog The online catalog contains the holding of Polk Library, including the main collection, government documents and the EMC. "Afro Americans", Women, "Medical Care", Hospitals, "United States Sanitary Commision", Massashusetts 54th, "Civil War" ,1861, "andersonville prision"
Periodical Indexes
Resource
Discription
Searching Tips and Suggest Terms
Academic
Search

Academic Search is a general index which includes articles on a wide range of subject, indexing both popular and scholarly journals.

Link from the History Resources page

  
Humanities
Full-text

Index of scholarly journals in a wide range of fields in the area of the humanities, including Literature, History and Religion. Some full-text available.

Link from the History Resources page
  • To limit your search, search in the abstract or subjects
  • Uses subject heading similiar to the catalog
Historical New York Times

The New York Times (1851-2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Link from the History Resources page

  • Use the Date Range limit to the years of the Civil War
History E-Book
Project

Includes the full-text of over 850 books in the field of history

Link from the History Resources page
  • To locate materials on the American Civil War use the Browse Subject
America: History and Life

A bibliographic reference to the history fo the United States andCanada from prehistory to the Present. Includes reference to regional history publications.

Link from the History Resources page

  
JSTOR

Provides electronic access to back issues of core journals in the humnaities, social sciences and science. currenly there are 117 titles accessible in the JSTOR collection

Link from the History Resources page
  • When searching select the history collection
Electronic Reference
Resource
Discription
Searching Tips and Suggest Terms
Oxford Reference
Online		 Online versions of over 100 dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference books. Coverage of a broad range of subjects: from General Reference, Language and Quotations to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional.

Link from the History Resources page

 Usefull reference materials
  • The Oxford Companion to American Military History
  • The Oxford Companion to Military History
  • The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
  • The Oxford Companion to United States History
Internet Resources
Search Engines and Subject Directories
Specialized
Primary Sources

What are Primary Sources?
Primary sources include letters, diaries and other personal papers, photographs, interviews and transcripts, government and historical records, newspapers clippings and other original sources

 

What are Secondary Sources?
A document concerning a particular subject of inquiry which is derived from or based on study and analysis of original source materials

How to find Primary Sources

Archives
The majority of primary sources such as letters or diaries are housed in archive collections such as those located in the Univeristy Archives and Area Research Center located on 3rd South in Polk Library. For more information on the Archives/Area Research Center contact University Archivist Joshua Ranger.

Primary Resources in Print
Primary sources are such as diaries, government documents or collections of letters are sometimes published. To find these items do a search with your topic and one of the following terms in the Polk Catlaog or the UB Catalog

  • For Primary Sources use Sources
  • For Diaries use Diaries or Personal Narratives
  • For Letters use Correspondence

Newspaper articles form the time can also be a primary source. Use the Historical New York Times to find articles from that time period. Link from the History Resources page

Primary Sources on the Internet
Some archives make primary sources available through the internet as digital collections.

Library Department & Services
For questions regarding the information on this site please email me at finkey@uwosh.edu
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