LibGuides: United States History Guide to Resources for Class and Projects: Civil War Project

Gale Databases

Gale US History In Context database contains information you need for this research project. Below are just a few examples of the relevant information contained in the database. Each article will also link you to related content. Remember the databases will make a proper MLA citation for you and export the citation to NoodleTools.

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U.S. History In Context provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people. Comprehensive, contextual, media-rich information is provided on topics ranging from the arrival of Vikings in North America, to the stirrings of the revolution, through to the Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror.

ABC CLIO

ABC-CLIO databases contain information on many topics relevant to your research project. Below are links to just a few of the topics covered in this database. Each article link will take you to an article with background information on your topic. In addition, the article will link to other sources relevant to your research. Each article will also give you a properly formatted MLA citation which can be exported to NoodleTools.

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Access all 15 ABC-CLIO social studies databases.

African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Civil War Reference Articles
background information, dates, players, battles, events, links to related sources
Hispanic Medal of Honor Award- Civil War
Women during the Civil War
Women's Writing during the Civil War
History of Women's Suffrage
Civil War and Reconstruction
Includes prelude to the war, battles, people, issues, daily life and more
Abolition Topic Center
Overview, background information, links to other sources
Black Abolitionists
Class and Caste Systems during Civil War
Reconstruction
Background information, links to related articles
The Reconstruction Amendments
13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
Black Codes
Jim Crow
Klu Klux Klan
background, links to other sources
Sharecropping
Frederick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Tubman
Radical Republicans

Open Web Sources

Below you will find quality Open Web sources to support your research. Use NoodleTools to make a quality MLA citation for your Open Web sources.

Smithsonian National Museum of American History: Civil War
Digital History: Civil War
National Park Service: Civil War
Lincoln/Net
Contains materials from Lincoln's life 1830-1861. You can read the Lincoln-Douglas debates and search Lincoln's writings. You can also listen to songs from this period. Northern Illinois University Digital Library
US Army War College: Women in the Civil War
Low Country Digital Museum: Enslaved Women in the Civil War
National Humanities Center: Reconstruction and the Formerly Enslaved
The American Experience: Sharecropping and Southern Economy
National Park Service: African Americans and Education During Reconstruction
The American Experience: Schools and Education during Reconstruction
The American Experience Civil Rights During Reconstruction
Black History in Two Minutes: The Civil War and Emancipation
In this episode of Black History In Two Minutes or So hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., with additional commentary from Kimberle Crenshaw of UCLA and Columbia Law Schools, and Vincent Brown of Harvard University, we will take a look at how nearly 200,000 black men saved the nation and changed the outcome of the Civil War.
Black History in Two Minutes: Black Soldiers
Black History in Two Minutes: Land: Giving Rise to the Famous Phrase 40 Acres & a Mule
In this episode of Black History In Two Minutes or So hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., with additional commentary from Evelynn Hammonds of Harvard University and Farah Griffin of Columbia University, we uncover the turbulent history of land ownership and the challenges black people faced in America.
Black History in Two Minutes: Reconstruction: The Vote
Black men were denied access to the ballot box and the rights they were granted at the start of the Reconstruction period slowly diminished. In result, a Black presence in Congress was completely eradicated by 1901, and it would take a full generation for it to be restored.

United States History Guide to Resources for Class and Projects: Civil War Project

You will find sources relevant to your research needs for the US History Civil War Project

Gale Databases

ABC CLIO

Open Web Sources