American History to 1877

Chapter 13
Crisis of the Union, 1844-1860

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These resources have been selected by librarians to supplement HSTY 201 classes (American History to 1877) at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

• Gale Virtual Reference Collection
• Books and eBooks in TC3 Collection
• Subject Headings
• Multimedia
• Locating Journal Articles in Databases
• Web Resources

Gale Virtual Reference Collection

TC3 students and staff have access to the Gale Virtual Reference Library which has over 250 academic reference encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This is a good place to start your research because it provides useful background information.

Books and eBooks in TC3 Collection

• American Historical Documents: 1000-1904 [E173 .A45] - Primary sources
• Annals of America: A House Dividing 1850-1857. Primary Sources. [REF E 173 .A793. v.8]
• Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era [E433 .E83 2004]
• Coming of the Civil War [E338 .C92 1957]
• Compromise of 1850 [E423 .R8]
• Foreign and Female: Immigrant Women in America, 1840-1930 [HQ1410 .W43 1986]
• Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: the Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War by Eric Foner [E436 .F6 1970]
• John C. Calhoun, American Portrait [E340.C15 C63]
• Origins of America’s Civil War [E459 .C64 1981]
• The South and the Sectional Conflict by David M. Potter. Online via ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Note: To find books in the TC3 Library Catalog, the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat search for the subjects listed below. Books not owned by our library can be borrowed through our free Interlibrary Loan service. Click on the subjects below to locate books in the TC3 Library.

Subject Headings

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on this topic in the TC3 Library Catalog as well as in the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat.

• Civil War, 1861-1865 - Causes

Multimedia

• The Civil War: Episode 1—The Cause (1861) - Ken Burns, PBS, [100.00 minutes]. Streaming video from Films on Demand
• Roots of resistance: a story of the underground railroad. [videorecording] [Media E450 .R66 1989]

Locating Journal Articles in Databases

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals by Title & Subject.

Web Resources

• The Border Ruffian Code in Kansas - New York: Tribune Office, 1856. Primary source. From the Making of America Project, University of Michigan Library
• "California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 - Library of Congress collection provides "full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. The collection covers the dramatic decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century."
• Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839 - 1864 - More than 725 photographs dating from 1839 to 1864 (Library of Congress).
• Hard Road to Texas: Texas Annexation 1836 - 1845 - Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
• Kanzas and Nebraska: the history, geographical and physical characteristics, and political position of those territories - By Edward Everett Hale, 1854. Primary Source.
• Young-Sanders Center for the Study of the War Between the States in Louisiana.

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