Resource Guide:
American Civil War and Reconstruction
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- National Archives Photo & Document Database
- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
- The War of the Rebellion
- James Buchanan Resource Center
- Digital Library on American Slavery
- Texas Slavery Project
- Civil War and New Market
- The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
- Civil War Women
- The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865
- First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
- Making of America (University of Michigan)
- NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship)
- Smithsonian Collections Search
- U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center
- Virginia Heritage
- Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints
- New York Times Arcive
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- United States–History–Civil War, 1861-1865
- Virginia–History–Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States–History–Civil War, 1861-1865–Afro-Americans
- Southern States–History–1865-1877
- Confederate States of America–History
- United States–History–Civil War, 1861-1865–Personal Narratives
- Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863
- Chickamauga (GA), Battle of, 1863
- Reconstruction
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Civil War Times
- Civil War Times Illustrated
- America’s Civil War
- American Historical Review
- American History
- American Quarterly
- Journal of African American History
- Journal of American Ethnic History
- Journal of American History
- Journal of Negro History
- Journal of Southern History
- Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era
- American 19th Century History
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records | E464 .U6 |
| The papers of Jefferson Davis | E 467.1 .D2596 |
| Collected Works the Abraham Lincoln Association | E 457.91 1953 |
| A young Virginia boatman navigates the Civil War | E 596 .W66 |
| God’s almost chosen peoples | E 635 .R33 2010 and eBook |
| Civil War citizens: Race, ethnicity, and identity in America’s bloodiest conflict | E 540 .F6 C49 |
| Take care of the living : reconstructing Confederate veteran families in Virginia | F 232 .P7 M337 and eBook |
| In the shadow of the enemy : the Civil War journal of Ida Powell Dulany | E 605 .D88 |
| Long time gone : neighbors divided by civil war | E 528.5 .R656 |
| Southern storm : Sherman’s march to the sea | E 476.69 .T78 |
| Freedom, a documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867 | E 185.2 .F88 and eBook |
| The Civil War: the First year told by those who lived it | E 464 .C4385 2011 |
| How to do Civil War research | E 468.9 .S27 |
| A Yankee horseman in the Shenandoah Valley | E 527.612 .B55 2012 |
| Lincoln and the triumph of the nation: Constitutional conflict in the American Civil War | KFZ 9001.5 .N44 2011 |
| Sick from freedom: African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction | RA 448.5 .N4 D69 2012 |
| Death and the Civil War [videorecording] | DVD E456 Death Civil War |
| The war that forged a nation: why the Civil War still matters | E 468.9 .M19 2015 |
| The war that forged a nation: why the Civil War still matters | E 464 .C44 2001 |
| Theater of a Separate War : The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865 | eBook |
| Sex and the Civil War : Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality | eBook |
| A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 | eBook |
| The Civil War on the Mississippi : Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the Campaign to Control the River | eBook |
| A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865 | http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52070 |
| The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War | http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12541 |