Web-Based Research Information

Political Figures

• The White House, Abraham Lincoln

• Abraham Lincoln Association, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

• Emory University, The Martyred President: Sermons Given on the Occasion of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• The White House, Andrew Johnson

• Harper's Weekly, The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

• The White House, Ulysses S. Grant

• Southern Illinois University, Ulysses S. Grant Association

• The White House, Rutherford B. Hayes

• U. S. Congress, Congressional Biographical Directory

• Furman University, Thaddeus Stevens Papers On-Line

• Washington and Lee University, Robert E. Lee Papers

• Rice University, Papers of Jefferson Davis

Emancipation and Race

• Freedmen and Southern Society Project, Documents from Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867

• Freedmen and Southern Society Project, Chronology of Emancipation During the Civil War

• Library of Congress, African American Odyssey

• Library of Congress, African American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909

• Harper's Weekly, Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874

• Patricia C. Click, The Roanoke Island (N.C.) Freedmen's Colony

• Christine Charity, Officers and Civilian Agents of the Freedmen's Bureau in Louisiana

• James Allen, Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America

• University of Maryland, African American Women's Lives....An Annotated Bibliography

Electronic Image Archives

• Library of Congress, John Hay's Photograph Album, ca. 1861-1865

• Harper's Weekly, Library of Congress Collection of American Political Prints, 1766-1876

• Harper's Weekly, Toward Racial Equality..., 1857-1874

• James Allen, Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America

• Harper's Weekly, The World of Thomas Nast

Federal Documents

• CensusLinks, U. S. Census Database

Letters, Diaries, and Travellers' Accounts

• Duke University, Sarah E. Thompson Papers

• Duke University, Alice Williamson Diary

• University of North Carolina, First-Person Narratives of the American South

• University of Virginia, Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War

• Atlantic Monthly, Three Months Among the Reconstructionists (Feb. 1866)

Community Studies

• Patricia C. Click, The Roanoke Island (N.C.) Freedmen's Colony

• University of Virginia, Valley of the Shadow:   The War Years

• University of Virginia, Valley of the Shadow:   Aftermath

Recollecting the Civil War

• Washington and Lee University, Robert E. Lee Papers

• War Times Journal, James Longstreet's From Manassas to Appomattox

• University of North Carolina, Jubal Early's Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War between the States

Guides to Related Links

• Library of Congress, American Memory Digital Collections

• Louisiana State University, U. S. Civil War Center

• University of Michigan, Making of America

• Middle Tennessee State University, Women in Tennessee History

• University of Maryland, African American Women's Lives....An Annotated Bibliography

• University of North Carolina, First-Person Narratives of the American South

• University of Virginia, Valley of the Shadow:   The War Years

• University of Virginia, Valley of the Shadow:   Aftermath

• World Wide Web Virtual Library, Reconstruction, 1865-1880

Some Research Topics from Previous Semesters