History: U.S. Civil War
A Quick Guide

Books and Other Media 

• Reed Library Catalog: -- locate materials in Reed Library
• WorldCat: Locate materials in other libraries, and request via interlibrary loan.

Journals/Articles 

• America History and Life: Locate research articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Citations, summaries, and links full text articles are available.
• JSTOR: Provides a comprehensive backfile of major scholarly journals in the Arts and Sciences, Business, History, and more.      
• HarpWeek: The full text, full image edition of Harper's Weekly, a civil war era magazine. Dates of coverage: 1857-1865.   

Reference

• Civil War Resources in Reed Library's Reference Collection: look for general reference materials
• Civil War Resources in the Circulating Collections at Reed Library: Items you can check out for your research

More Guides

• History Research Guide: Basic Guide to History Research

Other Tools

• U.S. Civil War Center: The "links" area contains hundreds of links to primary source material on the topic.
• Civil War History at EHistory.com: Contains books, timelines, & articles about the era
• American Civil War Homepage: Nice links to primary source materials
• Hargrett Library Rare Book and Manuscript Collection: American Civil War Images
• Virginia Military Institute Archives: Contains links to Stonewall Jackson papers, diaries of soldiers, and more
• The Civil War Letters of Forrest Little: A series of letters written by 19 year-old Private Forest Little in the 5th Vermont Volunteer Regiment, Company F, between September 1861 and July 1862.
• Library of Congress: Primary Documents in American History: Links to important Civil War and Reconstruction documents
• Making of America: An online archive of primary documents relating to American History
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938-From the Library of Congress