CIVIL WAR AMERICA LINKS


Institutes and Centers
H-CivWar  E-mail listserv related to Civil War history
U.S. Civil War Center
Civil War Institute (Carroll College)
Virginia Center for Civil War Studies
Civil War Preservation Trust
Civil War Institute (Gettysburg)
U.S. Army Military History  Institute (Carlisle)
Penn State Civil War Era Center

Museums and Battlefields
National Civil War Museum (Harrisburg)
National Museum of the Civil War Soldier
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
Museum of the Confederacy
Baltimore Civil War Museum
Virginia War Museum
Andersonville National Historic Site
Abraham Lincoln Museum (Fort Wayne, IN)
Joshua Chamberlain House and Museum
Gettysburg National Military Park
National Park Service Search for battlefield parks from Ft. Sumter to Appomattox Courthouse

Journals
Civil War History
Civil War Book Review

Document Collections
American Slave Narratives: An On-Line Anthology
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History  Links to over 440 documents
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln On-Line  Speeches, letters, writings 
Black Abolitionism  Hundred of Documents
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture  Extensive collection of mid-nineteenth century texts
Jensen's Guide to Civil War Resources

Princeton Review (1830-1882)  Searchable 19th century Reformed journal
Valley of the Shadow  Digitial archive of primary sources related to two Civil War communities
19th Century African-American Women's Writing
19th Century School Books
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project (Northern Illinois University)
Virginia Tech Civil War Resources  Many letters and diaries
The American Civil War Homepage
Civil War Women (Duke)  Many letters and diaries
Dakota State Civil War Resources
Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
Illinois Civil War Diaries
Confederate Regimental History Digital Library
Documenting the American South
New York Times Civil War  Read the New York Times from the 1860s
Lincoln Legal Papers
Papers of Jefferson Davis
African-American Perspectives (Library of Congress)
Documents on Slavery (Avalon Project)
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 (Library of Congress)
Making of America Collection of 19th century journals
Civil War Web sites  Link to both primary and secondary material
American Memory
New York Civil War Documents
E-History  "Comprehensive library" on the Civil War including many primary documents
African-American Odyssey An on-line exhibit by the Library of Congress
19th Century New England Women's Diaries
Georgia Civil War Diaries
The Confessions of Nat Turner On-line text
Poetry and Music of the Civil War
The Dred Scott Case
California as I Saw It: First Person Narratives on California's Early Years, 1849-1900
Links to Black Soldiers on the Internet
United States Colored Troops in the Civil War  History and primary documents
Harpers Weekly Magazine, 1857-1912
Historical Image Collection  Many Civil War era photos and images
American Diplomacy, 1778-Present (Primary texts and documents)
Selections from WPA Slave Narratives
The Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 (Duke University)
Godey's Lady's Book On-Line
A Hypertext on American History Hundreds of primary documents
Victorian Women Writers Project  Hundreds on-line primary sources
54th Massachusetts  Information and documents on well-known African-American infantry company
Diary of Albert Underwood  Civil War soldier from Indiana
Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin Full text on-line
From Slavery to Freedom Library of Congress African American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln  (Abraham Lincoln Association)
America in 1850: An Archive of E-Texts (Assumption College)
US Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition On-Line Documents
Votes for Women: Selections from the National Women's Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
American Time Capsule: Three Centures of Broadsides and Printed Ephemera
Archival Research Catalog  124,000 digital images of governmental records
Digital History  More than 600 documents on the history of Mexican Americans, American Indians and slavery
Digital Library of Georgia  More than 17,000 state documents from 1794 to the present
Connecticut History Online  14,000 images depicting Connecticut's history from the 19th and 20th century
Historic American Sheet Music  More than 3000 pieces published between 1850 and 1920
English Language Resources  Over 9500 full text works from the University of Virginia
Hypertext on American History from Colonial Period until Modern Times  More than 375 documents
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties  Digitized version of book containing documents relating to US-Indian affairs
Kentuckiana Digital Library  Photographs, full-text books, journals, oral histories from 1784-1971
Library of Virginia Digital Library Program  Thousands of digitized documents related to to Virginia history
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image 2200 items, including Civil War era pamphlets
Map Collection 1500-2003
 Includes Civil War Map
Abraham Lincoln Papers  Library of Congress  Over 20,000 documents
African Americans in Lancaster County  Over 100 documents
African American Women Writers  52 published works by 19th century writers
Transcendentalism in America  Collection of texts by major American Transcendentalists
The Underground Railroad in Lycoming, Pennsylvania  Oral history and interactive
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music  18,000 pieces of sheet music published before 1923
Samuel May Anti-Slavery Collection  More than 10,000 primary sources
Slave Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries  Records of slave ships
Sunday School Books  Full-texts of 163 Sunday School books published between 1815 and 1865
Freedom and Southern Society Project  44 documents related to the emancipation of slaver between 1861 and 1865
Freedmen's Bureau Online  Documents from the Freedmen's Bureau
The New York Times: The Civil War Years, 1860-1866
Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869

North American Slave Narratives

Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
Ohio Memory: An Online Scrapbook of Ohio History
Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920  
Capital and the Bay: Narrative of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925