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Selected Sources for
The Civil War and Reconstruction - Portfolio #4 (Dr. Brown) & Portfolio #5 (Dr. George)
Annotated Bibliographies - The Civil War - The View from Both Sides:
Online:
Letters and Diaries from the Civil War Years - Valley of the Shadow site. All primary sources from two towns on either side of the Mason Dixon line. Excellent sources for experiences of men and women, both at war and from the home front.
Cartoons and Caricatures of the Civil War - A collection by Gary E. Waite,
Scartoons: Racial Satire and the Civil War - a collection of cartoons about the Civil War and its leaders from UVa. Outstanding.
Movie Review: Glory
Glory - Video is on reserve for overnight use, or viewing during the day in the library.
Review from Washington Post:
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.
Our library has an excellent book that discusses this movie with great clarity: Chadwick, Bruce. The Reel Civil War : Mythmaking in American Film. New York : Knopf, 2001. Highly recommended.
Document Analysis: Plessy v. Ferguson:
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
One Hundred Years of Plessy Versus Ferguson - A little of the history of the aftermath of this decision.
Two interesting books discuss this decision and its aftermath:
Martin, Waldo E., Jr. Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997. See Chapter 2: Plessy v. Ferguson. (344.73 B)
Orfield, Gary and Susan E. Eaton. Dismantling desegregation: the Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education. New York : New Press, 1996. (370.19 O) Book shows the next chapter in the questions initially raised by Plessy v. Ferguson.
Document Analysis: Nast Cartoons and Reconstruction:
American Political Print, 1766-1876
From the Library of Congress; includes many cartoons. Recommended source
Images of Johnson's Impeachment
Cartoons of Thomas Nast
Books from our library:
Smith, Kristen M. The Lines Are Drawn: Political Cartoons of the Civil War. Athens, GA: Hill Street Press, 1999.
West, Richard Samuel. Satire on Stone: the Political Cartoons of Joseph Keppler. Urbana, U. of Ill., 1998. One of Nast's contemporaries.
American Eras: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877. Detroit: Gale, 1997.
Other Websites of Interest to Civil War Researchers:
The American Civil War - a portal site leading to many excellent resources.
Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet
Emancipation Proclamation
Transcribed text of the document that ordered slaves to be freed.
Gettysburg Address Includes drafts of the Address and a photo of
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1880 - from the American Memory Timeline of the Library of Congress; primary source materials covering Pre-Civil War African American Slavery, Reformers and Crusaders, and Traveling on the Overland Trails, 1843-1860.
Underground Railroad
Wonderful interactive site by National Geographic
The United States Civil War Center
A very comprehensive gateway to over 2,000 internet sites. Includes a searchable index.
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War A chronicle of the war in two communities on different sides of the conflict. Includes much primary material (newspapers, maps, letters, diaries, church records) concerning the war and its effects in
