The Bryn Mawr School Library

Edith Hamilton Library

PORTFOLIO #4--THE CIVIL WAR

Dr. George

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Civil War Baltimore	The Mexican War
Film Analysis: "Glory"	Annotated Bibliography--The Civil War

Civil War Baltimore

Written by the mayor of Baltimore at the time of the riot. His personal account of the riot.

To locate scholarly journal articles on life in Baltimore during the Civil War search Project Muse and JSTOR. Here are few of the articles available:

Labor Controls in Maryland in the Nineteenth Century Richard B. Morris The Journal of Southern History , Vol. 14, No. 3. (Aug., 1948), pp. 385-400.

The Problem of Race in the Age of Freedom: Emancipation and the Transformation of Republican Schooling in Baltimore, 1860-1867 [ Wolff, Robert S. Civil War History - Volume 52, Number 3, September 2006, pp. 229-254.

Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War? Some Preliminary Demographic Speculations
Maris A. Vinovskis
The Journal of American History > Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jun., 1989), pp. 34-58

Job Busting at Baltimore Shipyards: Racial Violence in the Civil War-Era South Frank Towers
The Journal of Southern History > Vol. 66, No. 2 (May, 2000), pp. 221-256

Websites:

Baltimore Riots(civilwarhome.com)

Who killed Luther Ladd?--Letters of the Civil War

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War: Luther Ladd

The Dying Volunteer. A song using the last words of Luther Ladd.

Statement of Victor Lorendo: Letters of the Civil War.

"For God's Sake Don't Shoot!"

Baltimore Riot--Bartleby. Turn the page for the rest of the story.

Film Analysis: Glory

Glory - Video is on reserve for overnight use, or viewing during the day in the library. Ask at Circ. Desk.

Reviews of movies are readily available from the Internet Movie Database or Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE) ; contemporary hard copy reviews may be located by using the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature in Ref. Ask if you need help. An excellent book has been place on reserve that discusses this movie with great clarity:

Chadwick, Bruce. The Reel Civil War : Mythmaking in American Film. New York : Knopf, 2001. (791.43658 C) Highly recommended.

Two additional titles will help in evaluating the authenticity of the movie:
Glatthaar, Joseph T. Forged in Battle : the Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers. New York : Free Press, 1990. (973.7 G)

The Black Military Experience , series II. From Freedom, a Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. Ed. by Ira Berlin. Cambridge, Eng. : Cambridge University Press, 1982. (973.7 F)

Primary source material

For Shaw's Obituary, as covered in the Black Press, see African American History in the Press, 1851-1899. (On Reserve; Ref 973.0496 A v.1), p. 305. Note: this source also is a primary resource for information about Blacks in the Civil War.

Reviews:

From ProQuest (available from Online Resources; passwords required at home)

.	Film Reviews: North America--Glory Horne, Gerald. The American Historical Review. Washington: Oct 1990. Vol. 95, Iss. 4; p. 1141 (3 pages)

Review from Washington Post:

Review/Film; Black Combat Bravery in the Civil War
By Vincent Canby New York Times, December 14, 1989.

Some Sources for Civil War Annotated Bibliography

How to construct an annotated bibliography

Valley of the Shadow : Two Communities in the American Civil War
A splendid study of two towns during the period of the Civil War, one northern and one southern.
Contains massive amounts of archival material and excellent primary sources from North and South.

Cartoons and Cariacatures of the Civil War - A collection by Gary E. Waite, Dartmouth. Thumbnail illustrations with accompanying text shows graphically the mores and attitudes of the period.

Scartoons: Racial Satire and the Civil War- a collection of cartoons about the Civil War and its leaders from UVa. Outstanding.

Books:

The books on the following list are not on reserve; they are available in the stacks. Take freely, but use
quickly. The Library owns many books on the Civil War, but these are among the best for the Portfolio
Project.

Call Number

Information

305.4 F

Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of invention: women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War.

305.4 S

Simkins, Francis Butler. The women of the Confederacy.

791.43658 C

Chadwick, Bruce. The reel Civil War: mythmaking in American film.

920 B

Bradford, Gamaliel. Confederate portraits.

920 Lincoln

Chadwick, Bruce. The two American Presidents : a dual biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.

921 Taylor

Taylor, Susie King. A Black woman's Civil War memoirs : reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volunteers.

973.7 B

Blight, David W. Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory.

973.7 B

Bragg, Jefferson Davis. Louisiana in the Confederacy.

973.7 C

The Blue and the Gray : the story of the Civil War as told by participants.

973.7 C	Catton, Bruce- This hallowed ground; the story of the Union side of the Civil War.
973.7 C	The Civil War. Alexandria, VA : Time-Life Books, 1984. (Each volume cataloged separately; some vols. cover the north or south exclusively) Many vols.

973.7 D

Damon, Duane. When this cruel war is over: the Civil War home front.

973.7 D

Davis, William C., 1946- Lincoln's men: how President Lincoln became father to an army and a nation.

973.7 D	Donald, David Herbert, ed. Why the North won the Civil War.
973.7 F	Freeman, Douglas Southall. Lee's Lieutenants: a Study in Command.

973.7 F	The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor the Lower South.
973.7 F	The Black Military Experience.

973.7 F	Friedheim, William. Freedom's unfinished revolution: an inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction.
973.7 G	Glatthaar, Joseph T. Forged in Battle: the Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers.

973.7 H

Hattaway, Herman. How the North won: a military history of the Civil War.

973.7 J

Jackman, John S.. Diary of a Confederate soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade.

973.7 M

The myth of the lost cause and Civil War history.

973.7 M

McPherson, James M. Abraham Lincoln and the second American Revolution.

973.7 M

McPherson, James M. Ordeal by fire: the Civil War and Reconstruction.

973.7 S

Smith, Page. Trial by fire: a people's history of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

973.7 T

Trudeau, Noah Andre- Like men of war: Black troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865.

973.7 V

Voices from the Civil War: a documentary history of the great American conflict.

973.7 W

Wert, Jeffry D. A brotherhood of valor : the common soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade, C.S.A., and the Iron Brigade, U.S.A.

973.7 W

Winik, Jay. April 1865: the month that saved America.

973.71 V

Vandiver, Frank Everson Their tattered flags: the epic of the Confederacy.

973.713 W

Why the South lost the Civil War.

973.715 M

Murphy, Jim The boys' war: Confederate and Union soldiers talk about the Civil War.

973.741 R

Rhodes, Elisha Hunt. All for the Union the Civil War diary and letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes.

975 J

Jumpin' Jim Crow southern politics from Civil War to civil rights.

975.2 J

Johnson, Bradley T. Maryland and West Virginia:Confederate military history.

The Mexican War

To locate reference articles, primary documents, websites and journal articles on the Mexican War search History Study Center.

"The Mexican War, and After," extracted from American Military History , Chapter 8.
Published in the Army Historical Series by the Office of the Chief of Military History U.S. Army.
Tactics and strategy and at least one enlargeable map.

The History Guy : The Mexican American War - A commercial site, with just the facts, figures, and
outcomes noted.

The Mexican War - the story told through the eyes of Texan descendents of the Mexican War

The Mexican War - FAS Military Analysis Network

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (Monterey County Historical Society

The U.S. - Mexican War, 1846-1848 Official site of the PBS special. English and Spanish; presents
multiple views

Four books from the BMS collection may help : (On Reserve)

Meltzer, Milton. Bound for the Rio Grande: the Mexican Struggle, 1845-1850. New York : Knopf, 1974.
(973.62 M)

Singletary, Otis A. The Mexican War. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1960. (973.62 S)

Stephenson, Nathaniel. Texas and the Mexican War . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921. (973.6 S)

November 29, 2006