Reading Seminar on the Era of the US Civil War Expand All + Collapse All - Course Number: HI445 Subject: History Review essaysSearch America History & Life with the subject set as "historiography," or search one of the following publications for phrases such as review article, review essay, or historiography.The American Historical ReviewCivil War HistoryJournal of African American HistoryJournal of American HistoryJournal of Southern HistoryJournal of the Early RepublicReviews in American HistoryThe William and Mary QuarterlyBackground materialSheehan-Dean, Aaron, ed. The Cambridge History of the American Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.Volume 1: Military AffairsVolume 2: Affairs of the stateVolume 3: Affairs of the peopleMiller, Richard F., ed. States at War. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2013-2020.Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and VermontNew YorkPennsylvaniaDelaware, Maryland, and New JerseyOhioSouth CarolinaMichiganOther relevant encyclopedias and handbooksBibliographiesRemember that many secondary sources will have a bibliography that you can use for your own research. Beyond your course readings, examples include:The background sources listed aboveWikipedia entry for American Civil WarOxford Bibliographies, e.g., The Bible and the American Civil WarCivil War Literature, 1861–1914Robert E. LeeMilitary MedicineMany theses have substantial bibliographies.ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Globale.g., Waddell, K. (2018). American mnemonic: Racial identity in women's life writing of the civil war ​​​​​​​Secondary sources: booksSearch in Omni - items at Laurier and 17 other Ontario librarieslimit to "Books and eBooks" on the left side of search resultstutorial: How to find scholarly bookstutorial: Finding books in Omnitutorial: Requesting books from other libraries in OmniFrom Universities Outside of Omni Libraries (Interlibrary Loans)other Omni tutorialsQuick tips helpful for this courseremember to use "quotation marks" when searching for phraseslimit your searches to the subject field, with terms/phrases such as:United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865and then add words like causes, influence, campaigns, etc.Secession -- Southern StatesConfederate States of AmericaReconstruction (U.S. History, 1865-1877)ebooksall of our ebooks are catalogued in Omni, however you cannot search the entire full text of the ebooks. To do this, search one of our ebook collections. For this course, try the following:Proquest Ebook CentralEbook Academic Collection (Ebsco)ACLS Humanities EbookThe Internet Archive has a lot of free content as wellbest used if you have a known title, exampleSecondary sources: articlesSearch in Omni - items at Laurierlimit to "Articles" and "Peer-reviewed" on the left side of search resultstutorial: Finding scholarly articles in OmniDue to the large number of results from an Omni search, it can sometimes be helpful to search history specific databases. For this class, tryAmerica History & Life (index)Confederate States of AmericaUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865JSTORas with ebooks, search the entire contents of many journals, not just the citation/subjectsPeriodicals Archive Onlinecovers 1802-1902CitationsLaurier History Department’s Style GuideChicago Manual of StyleRampolla, Mary Lynn. A Pocket Guide to Writing in History. Tenth edition. Boston: Bedford/St Martin’s, 2021. (ebook, one user at a time)