HIS 4100: Civil War History Guide to Primary Sources
Biographical Sources
American National Biography
ASU REF CT213.A68 2002
Successor to the Dictionary of American Biography, this 24 volume set "has
substantially broadened the criteria for the inclusion of subjects." A descriptive
bibliography is appended to each article and may include primary sources.
Great Lives from History: American Series
ASU REF CT214.G74 1987
A five-volume set of biographical sketches of some 400 Americans, presenting
their contributions and impact on United States history and development and
including individual bibliographies.
Other useful Article Indexes
Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature,
1890-1899
ASU REF AI3.R496
Cumulative index to fifty-one periodicals.
Included in C19: Nineteenth
Century Index Online.
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature , 6 vols.
ASU REF AI 3.P7
Provides subject access to 232 journals covering the period 1802-1906.
Includes
separate author index volume.
Included in C19: Nineteenth Century
Index Online.
Belk Library's
Microform Newspaper Collection , coverage varies
ASU Microforms
Belk Library's Microform Collection (bottom floor of Belk Library) includes
newspapers of local, regional, national and international interest.
Reference Sources
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War : a political, social, and military
history
ASU REF E468
.H47 2000, 5 vols.
Military bibliography of the Civil War
ASU REF Z1242 .D612, 3 vols.
Regimental publications and personal narratives.
The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War
ASU REF G1201 .S5 U6
Reprint of the atlas to accompany the official records
of the Union and Confederate
armies.
Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States
and Canada
ASU REF E172.D5 15th
Includes approximately 13,000 listings of state and local historical organizations.
North Carolina History: an annotated bibliography
ASU REF Z1319.J66 1995
This is a comprehensive collection of sources detailing the history of the
state.
Sections are arranged chronologically.
Web Sites
American Civil War Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
Comprehensive directory of Internet sources, covering the major military, political,
and social perspectives. Broad categories including overviews, bibliographies,
photographs, and primary documents.
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/
"American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the
history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 5 million
items from more than 90 historical collections."
American
Studies Virtual Library
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/reference.html
This site provides access to online libraries, special collections, case studies,
and curriculums. Very comprehensive web site and highly useful as a starting
point for online research in American studies.
Documenting
the American South Full Text
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of primary sources on
Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the
first decades of the 20th century.
In the First Person
http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.aspx
Searchable index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in
English from around the world.
Links to the Past
http://www.cr.nps.gov/
"Information and news from the National Park Service programs in archeology,
ethnology, historic landscapes, historic structures, history, and museum management. Includes
good information relating to the American Civil War."
Making of America
http:/moa.umdl.umich.edu/
"Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum
period through reconstruction.
Repositories
of Primary Sources
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
A listing of over 3200 Web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives,
rare books, historical photographs,
and other primary sources for the research scholar.
The Valley of the Shadow
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu
Residents of Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania,
chronicle their experiences in the American Civil War. Includes letters, diaries,
newspapers, military records, photographs, church records, census records,
and pensions.
Words
and Deeds in American History
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/corhome.html
"This site from the Library of Congress Website, gives full-text access
in both scanned and electronic formats
to primary documents from America's history."
Library Catalogs
Library Catalog
http://wncln.wncln.org/
To locate books, journal titles (after you have used an index to identify specific
articles), and other materials in the ASU Libraries and the Western North Carolina
Library Network (WNCLN).
WorldCat ,11th
Century - to date (updated daily)
Available on & off campus
WorldCat is a catalog of over 35 million books, serials, audiovisual media,
maps, archives/manuscripts, scores, and computer files from 17,000 libraries
around the world. Electronic interlibrary loan requesting is available. WorldCat is
not an index to journal articles.
Content by Elizabeth M. Williams, willamsem@appstate.edu
Last updated Spring 2007.