American History to 1877

Chapter 14:
Two Societies at War, 1861-1865

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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

• April 1865: the Month that Saved America [E477.61 .W56 2001]
• Atlas of the Civil War [O-SIZE G1201.S5 A85 1994]
• Battle Cry of Freedom: the Civil War Era [E173 .O94 v.6]
• Civil War, a Narrative [E468 .F7]
• Confederate Experience Reader: Selected Documents and Essays [On Order]
• Devil’s Own Work: the Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America [F128.44 .S33 2005]
• Final Freedom: the Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment [E453 .V67 2001]
• Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis [E440.5 .P856 1962]
• Lincoln and the First Shot [E471.1 .C95 1963]
• Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln [E457.45 .G66 2005]
• Testament: a Soldier's Story of the Civil War - Primary source. [E505.5 25th .B63 2004]
• War for the Union. 2 vols. [E468 .N43]

Note: To find books in the TC3 Library, go to the main Library Gateway page and search the TC3 Catalog. Use the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat to find books in other libraries which you can request through the TC3 Library's Interlibrary Loan service.

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. To find books in the TC3 Library, go to the main Library page and search the TC3 Catalog.

• Confederate States of America, History
• Civil War Campaigns
• Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
• Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863
• Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
• United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns
• United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Personal Narratives

Multimedia

• Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator - Lecture by Eric Foner of Columbia University given at the British Academy, 5 November 2003. [59:08. Foner's lecture begins at 5:45]
• Amendment 13: The Abolition of Slavery - Streaming video from Films on Demand (13 minutes)
• The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns [videorecording (DVD)] Originally produced as a television mini series in 1990. Also available in streaming format in Films on Demand
• The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - Class lectures for HIST 119 by David W. Blight, Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University. You can listen to all the class lectures.

Locating Journal Articles in Databases

History-related journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our Electronic Databases and other online resources. Relevant history journals include America's Civil War, Civil War History, and Civil War Times.

Web Resources

• American Battlefield Protection Program - National Park Service. Civil War Battle Summaries by State
• Abraham Lincoln Papers
• Abraham Lincoln Association Serials - Searchable publications include 52 issues of the Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, published between 1940 and 1952.
• Calvin Shedd Papers: the Civil War in Florida: Letters of a New Hampshire Soldier - Transcripts of 53 letters written by Calvin Shedd, a member of the Seventh Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, while he was stationed in Florida from 1862-1863. Primary Sources.
• Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System - National Park Service.
• Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories - Part of the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University. There is an exceptional collection of 19th Century American Documents including Eliza Frances Andrews, The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865. To learn more see Use Case Civil War Data 150, Civil War Data 150 and Kris Carpenter Negulescu, Director of the Web Archive at the Internet Archive, in a video on YouTube - CNI: Linked Open Data: The Promises and the Pitfalls
• Gettysburg Address - Delivered by President Lincoln at the dedication of the Gettysburg Civil War Cemetery, November 19, 1863. Copy owned by Cornell University, one of five known copies in Lincoln's hand.
• Guthrie Civil War Letters - "The letters present a snapshot of the lives of Major J.N. Coleman of the Third Texas Cavalry and his fiancée, Virginia E. "Jennie" Adkins. John's letters from the field provide readers with a unique insight into the horrors, excitement, and day-to-day monotony of a soldier's life in the Confederate army, while Jennie's letters detail life on the home front in Marshall, Texas." Primary Sources.
• HarpWeek: Lincoln and the Civil War
• Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865
• New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center - Primary source. Contains New York State Civil War documents, specifically Annual Reports of the Chief of the Bureau of Military Statistics, State of New York consisting of: First Annual Report(1864); Second Annual Report (February 2, 1865); Third Annual Report (February 2, 1866) - Part I, pp. 1-275; Third Annual Report (February 2, 1866) Part II, pp. 276-573; Fourth Annual Report (February 11, 1867) - Part I, pp. 1-359; Fourth Annual Report (February 11, 1867) - Part I, pp. 1-359; Fifth Annual Report (April 3, 1868) - Part I, pp. 1-306; Fifth Annual Report (April 3, 1868) - Part II, pp. 307-677; Fifth Annual Report (April 3, 1868) - Part III, pp. 678-end; Annual Reports Index
• Selected Civil War Photographs Collection - Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
• Valley of the Shadow - University of Virginia.

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