Civil War Era Research Sources

TO REQUEST RESEARCH ASSISTANCE FROM J.RANGER OR OTHER LIBRARIANS, FOLLOW DIRECTIONS HERE: http://www.uwosh.edu/library/services/forms/research-assistance

1 - UW Catalog 

To find ALL WHS Archival MANUSCRIPTS and GOVERNMENT ARCHIVES using collection-level description

https://search.library.wisc.edu/

Select "MIXED MATERIALS" under Format and "WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ARCHIVES" under "Library" 

2 - Archival Resources in Wisconsin 

To find WHS (and other) larger collections (will not include small one folder collections) of Archival MANUSCRIPTS and GOVERNMENT ARCHIVES using folder- and collection-level description 

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/wiarchives/

3 - Newspapers 

African American Newspapers, Series 1 1827-1998

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 enables users to search more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Created in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress, African American Newspapers chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience.

http://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EANX&d_collections=EANAAA

Early American Newspapers

America's Historical Newspapers allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. America's Historical Newspapers enables researchers to explore virtually every aspect of America during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.

http://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EANX

Gale's Nineteenth Century U.S.

Newspapers captures a variety of newspaper resources from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

http://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/oshkosh?db=NCNP

Newspaper Archive:

NewspaperARCHIVE.com provides access to millions of newspaper pages from the United States and other countries. The collection of newspapers includes hundreds of titles, ranging from the 1700's to the present. NOT MANY UNITED STATES PAPERS UNTIL MID 1800s. Some, not many.

http://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://access.newspaperarchive.com/

4 - Digitized Collection

Find Wisconsin archival materials that have been digitized 

Wisconsin Goes to War via UWDC: https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/wi/wiwar/

Wisconsin in the Civil War (WHS) : https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS15252

Wisconsin Historical Collections (WHS): https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS3360

The WHC was a publication that transcribed  pioneer memoirs, archival records, original journals, explorers' narratives, interviews, and other eyewitness accounts of Wisconsin's past gathered between 1855-1915.  It's strength is in early Wisconsin history prior to the Civil War Era. 

5 - Wisconsin Magazine of History

Be like Richard Current and use this journal for all it's worth!

Wisconsin Magazine of History, searchable and browsable back to 1917: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS15287

6 - Interlibrary Loan, UW Requests, Google Books

There are many local and Wisconsin histories, Government Publications and other LIBRARY materials across the state, region and country that may be able to be borrowed from other libraries.  Since UW Madison and WHS were Google Book partners, many older titles have been digitized and are available via Google Books and/or HathiTrust.

So remember to search Search@UW or UW Library Catalog for library materials held by UW System

Use World Cat for large and academic libraries nationwide

Try Wiscat for books from Public Libraries across Wisconsin,

HathiTrust for digitized books from the 19th and early 20th Century