The following selective list of print and online resources has been compiled by McGovern Library staff as a starting point for research on the Civil War. It is not a complete listing of related materials held by McGovern Library or available online, but is intended to serve as a guide to some of the Library's resources, and as a pointer to a variety of electronic resources.
Encyclopedias And Reference Sources
Print sources available in McGovern Library:
- The Atlas of the Civil War Ref. OVERSIZE G12091 .S5 A85 1994
- Battles of the Civil War Ref G3701.S5 2005 .N3
- A Compendium of the War of Rebellion Ref. E491 .D99 1959
- Encyclopedia of the American Civil War Ref. E468 .E53 2000
- Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment Ref. UB8000 E.53 2000
- Facts About the Presidents Ref E176.1 .K3 1993
- Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction Ref E468 .R53 2004
- Presidential Administration Profiles for Students Ref JK511 .P78 2000
- Presidential Also-Rans and Running Mates, 1788-1980 Ref E176.1 .S695 1984
- Women during the Civil War: an Encyclopedia Ref E628 .H37 2004
Andrew Boyajian Civil War additions to the Jennewein Collection*
*Shelved in Special Collections. Rare/locked case items available for use by appointment. For information contact:
Laurie Langland
University Archivist
Dakota Wesleyan University
1201 McGovern Avenue
Mitchell, SD 57301
605-995-2134
lalangla@dwu.edu
Online Resources
Indexes
Print* indexes available in McGovern Library:
- Essay and General Literature Index
- Use "United States -- History -- Civil War"
- Humanities Index
- Use "United States -- History -- Civil War"
- New York Times Index
- Use "Vietnam," "US Armament," etc.
- Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
- Use "United States -- History -- Civil War," "Reconstruction (Civil War)," etc.
- Social Sciences Index
- Use "United States -- History -- Civil War," "Reconstruction (Civil War)," etc.
*Note: Contemporary (1861-1865) print indexes will be especially useful. The New York Times Index is located on the second floor with the Print Indexes (some years may be on microfiche).
Online Indexes
- Making of America: Full text of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction (1850-1877).
- Search for keywords, proper names, places, etc. Use Advanced Search options to focus your search.
- Ancestry.com (On-campus access only)
- Includes the Slave Narratives collection (stories, songs, folk medicine, voting, etc.), as well as a Civil War Research Database and Pension Index searchable by specific soldiers, officers, and/or regiments.
- LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History
- Subject term searches using "Civil War" in combination with specific names/places/events and or documents.
- EBSCO Fulltext Databases: abstracts, citations and full text articles
- Keyword searches for period specific terms such as "Carpetbaggers," or combination such as "Civil War," with specific names and/or places such as "William Davis," "Mary Todd Lincoln ," "Manassas," "Bull Run," etc.
- Proquest : abstracts, citations and full text articles
- Subject searches for "American Civil War" or specific names and/or places such as "Abraham Lincoln," "Harpers Ferry," etc.
Periodicals
- Congressional Globe
- HARDCOPY: 33rd Cong. (1853) -42nd Cong. (1873).
(Shelved in McGovern Annex; please ask for assistance.)
- MICROFILM: 23rd Cong. (1833) -25th Cong. (1838)
- J-STOR Titles -- History
- J-STOR Titles -- African American Studies
- J-STOR Titles -- Political Science
Use indices to locate articles in print journals held by the library.
Videos/Media
Non-Fiction
- The 54th Massachusetts VT1727
- Battle of the 1st Bull Run VT1726
- The Black Man and the Civil War Cass. 173
- Brotherly Love VT 1185
- The Civil War: 1865 -- war is all hell VT 698
- The Civil War: 1864 -- most hallowed ground VT 697
- The Civil War: 1865 -- valley of the shadow of death VT 696
- The Civil War: 1863 -- simply murder VT 694
- The Civil War: 1863 -- the universe of battle VT 695
- The Civil War: 1862 -- forever free VT 693
- The Civil War: 1862 -- a very bloody affair VT 692
- The Civil War: 1861 -- the cause VT 691
- The Civil War: 1865 -- the better angels of our nature VT 699
- The Civil War (photographs) CD-ROM 031
- Death Runs Riot VT 957
- Destiny at Fort Sumter VT 1725
- Frederick Douglass VT 1264
- John Brown's War VT 1724
- John Wilkes Booth VT 1268
- Judgment Day VT 1186
- Lincoln VT 725-728
- Roots of Resistance VT 579
- Songs of the Civil War VT 1655
- Songs of the Civil War SLP 289
- Tennesee Ernie Ford sings Song of the Civil War SLP 375
- Walt Whitman & the Civil War VT 1293
Fiction/Drama
- Birth of a Nation VT 670-671
- The Blue & the Gray DVD 051
- Gettysburg VT 1601-1602
- Glory VT 1212
Searching the Library Catalog
- Subject-heading keyword searches: "Civil War," or names of contemporary figures or places such as "Abraham Lincoln," "Frederick Douglass," "Ulysses S. Grant," Gettysburg," or "Andersonville," etc.
- Keyword searches combining terms such as "Civil War" or "slavery" with "prisons," "abolitionists," underground railroad," etc.
- Limit by publication year to see the most recently published resources or for contemporary documents.
Online Books/Documents
- A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers at the Library of Congress.
- Civil War Women: Selection of primary sources (diaries, letters, etc.) compiled by library staff at Duke University.
- The Crisis of the Union: An electronic archive of documents about the causes, conduct, and consequences of the US Civil War (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
- CMH Online Bookshelves: Civil War: Research materials from the Center for Military History
- Chronology of US Historical Documents 1850-1874: Includes the Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, inaugural addresses of contemporary presidents, etc.
- Gilder Lehrman Center Online Documents: Over 200 primary source documents relating to the study of slavery, resistance and abolition.
- The Historical New York Times Project. Chapter 2: The Civil War Years 1860-1866: Carnegie Mellon University's project provides searchable scanned images of newspaper pages.
- Making of America: a digital library of primary sources in American social history. Searches the contents of around 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. Includes access to the multivolume sets:
- Try Boolean searches for specific names, places, or events.
- Nineteenth Century Documents Project: Representative documents with emphasis on sectional conflict and transformations in regional identity.
- The Southern Homefront 1861-1865: Documents Southern life during the Civil War -- over 400 contemporary printed works and manuscripts. From the Documenting the American South Collection at the University of North Caroling, Chapel Hill.
- Streaming West: Railway Activity Westward Through Kansas, 1860-1890: Eight items from the archives at the University of Kansas.
- The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War: Digital archive of original letters, diaries, newspaper articles, speeches, etc. from Augusta County, VA and Franklin County, PA.
Music
- Band Music from the Civil War Era: Contains examples of brass band music, both printed and manuscript forms, as well as sound files from the Library of Congress Music Division
- Music of the American Civil War: MIDI files based on the Civil War Songbook: Complete Original Sheet Music for 37 Songs by Richard Crawford (Dover Pub., 1977).
Images
Statistics
Legislation
- Congressional Globe
- HARDCOPY: 33rd Cong. (1853) -42nd Cong. (1873).
(Shelved in McGovern Annex; please ask for assistance.)
- MICROFILM: 23rd Cong. (1833) -25th Cong. (1838
Websites
Military Archives and Sources
Online Supplemental Resources
Memorials, Historic Sites and Museums
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