Scholarly sources
- Evaluating Resources
- How do I know if my source is scholarly? (4:21)
- What is a peer-reviewed journal? (1:42)
- Identifying Peer-Reviewed Journals (2:15)
- How to find scholarly books (3:04)
Secondary Sources
Books
- Primo - items at Laurier, UW, and UG.
- Secession -- Southern States
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Worldcat - items in libraries worldwide
- use RACER to request these items
- ebooks - search the entire content of ebooks, not just the citation/subjects
- Google Books
- often helpful to search contents of a book you also have in print
- Internet Archive
- best used if you have a known title, and if published before 1923
- Google Books
Articles
- America History & Life
- Confederate States of America
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- JSTOR
- as with ebooks, search the entire contents of many journals, not just the citation/subjects
- 19th Century Masterfile
- Index to American and British publications, links to some full text
- Periodicals Archive Online
- covers 1802-1902
Review Essays (sources for)
Search America History & Life with the subject set as "historiography," or search one of these titles for a "review essay"
- The American Historical Review
- Civil War History
- Journal of African American History
- Journal of American History
- Journal of Southern History
- Journal of the Early Republic
- Reviews in American History
- The William and Mary Quarterly
Primary Sources
- What is a primary source?
- Primo
- e.g., United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 personal narratives
- sources, interviews, personal narratives, statistics, diaries, correspondence, biography, etc. (more headings)
- RACER
Library Subscriptions
- Black Thought and Culture
- Black Women in America
- Globe and Mail
- New York Times (UW has some additional US newspapers e.g., Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Constitution)
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
- North American Indian Thought and Culture
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries
- Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
Additional primary source subscriptions
Freely available
- Library of Congress Digital Collections
- Abraham Lincoln Papers
- African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
- African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818–1907
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
- Selected Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress
- Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft
- Civil War Letters of the Christie Family (Minnesota Historical Society)
- Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet (Duke University)
- Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection (Cornell University)
- Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony (Patricia Click, University of Virginia)
- The Calvin Shedd Papers: The Civil War in Florida (University of Miami)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (University of Virginia)
- The Valley of the Shadow (University of Virginia)
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Cornell University)
- Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 (Indiana University)