Civil War and Reconstruction

Reference Materials
Items found in the Library's reference department provide useful introductions to subject areas and offer selective bibliographic leads. Consult the following for background information on the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

• American Civil War : a handbook of literature and research. [REF] Z1242 .A47 1996
• Civil War Books: A critical bibliography [REF] Z1242.N35
• Civil War in the North: A Selective Annotated Bibliography [REF] Z1242.M87 1987
• Civil War Eyewitnesses [REF] Z 1242. C78 1988, [REF] Z 1242. C79 2000
• Encyclopedia of the American Civil War : a political, social, and military history. [REF] E468 .E53 2000
• Freedom's Lawmakers : a Directory of Black officeholders during Reconstruction [REF] E185.96.F 64 1993
• Women and the American Civil War : an annotated bibliography  [REF] Z1242 .M355 2003

Monographic Source

• The Libraries' book collection includes works that offer comprehensive treatments of Civil War and Reconstruction issues. Use Pilot  our online catalog to find books in our collection as well as links to the full-text of electronic reserve items and other valuable information on the Internet.
• To search the catalogs of other Pennsylvania Libraries, and to borrow from them directly, choose  PALCI  from our web page. (To borrow items, log in using your 16-digit I-card number.)
• World Cat--search the OCLC Database of paper and electronic titles. For items not owned by our library, use ILLIAD
  to borrow them from other libraries.
• Digital Dissertations -- Dissertation Abstracts and full text for all digital dissertations from 1997 to present. The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester.

Online books

• Netlibrary  -- collection of electronic monographs.
• University of Pennsylvania On-Line Books Page -- online book collection.
• Internet Public Library  On-line Texts Collection  -- online book collection.
• Google books.--  allows you to search, though not always to access, the contents of current books.

General Online Sources of Full-text Scholarly Journals and Magazines
Scholarly journals offer the most specific and current treatment of historic topics.  IUP patrons can access large collections of such information through the following services. (To access these databases from off-campus, use your 16 digit I-card number.) To if we have access to the full-text of an journal electronically, do a journal title search in Pilot .

• Ebsco Host--access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and newspapers, the bibliographic references to thousands more, and links to Internet sites and information on local holdings of periodicals.
• Infotrac-- access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and bibliographic access to thousands more.
• Project MUSE -- provides more than 100 full-text online scholarly journals from academic presses covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.
• JSTOR -- Online archives of over 125 journals in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. JSTOR is designed specifically for archiving journals, so it does not include the most recent 2-5 years of each title.
• Duke E-Journals  ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN -- includes online access to twenty-nine Duke humanities and social science journals.
• American Periodicals Series Online ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN -- -- digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century including  groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.

• Official Records of the War of the Rebellion - his primary source for military and other Civil War information.

• Internet Public Library
• Information Please--History and Government
• Digital Librarian--History Sources
• American National Biography ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN -- offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation.
• History Resource Center -- --  full text history reference database designed fundergraduate research. The database features cover-to-cover full text for more than 750 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books, including award winning titles from many top publishers.
• Times Digital Archive  -- Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. 1785 - 1985 .

• America: History & Life-- coverage of historical literature of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
• Historical Abstracts--historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada.
• Other online databases--many other databases are available from the Library's web page under Databases.

Electronic Versions of Books and Primary Sources

• Nineteenth Century in Print
• Documenting the American South
• Worldcat--public access version of OCLC database includes links to full-text Internet sites.
• Netlibrary--Electronic versions of books are also available to IUP patrons.
• Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Association
• Women in the Civil War

• Library of Congress Guide to Archival and Manuscript Repositories in the United States
• Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections in Microform at Stapleton Library

Civil War Newspapers

• Civil War, a Newspaper Perspective  --  the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.
• Civil War Newspapers--Valley of the Shadow Project
• Historical New York Times -full-text and full-image articles for
  from 1851-2000 for The New York Times.
• Civil War Newspapers available at IUP

Book Reviews

• IUP Book Review Guide
• H-Net Reviews

• IUP History Department's History Related Sites on the Internet
• History via Yahoo
• American Memory--Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
• U.S. Civil War History Center --over 4,500 Civil War links.
• Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia
• Documenting the American South
• Making of America
• American Civil War Home Page
• Women in the Civil War

• Infopeople's Best Search Tools
• Google Scholar

• University of California at Berkeley Citation Page
• Endnote Software is available free of charge with an I-Card from the IT Support Center at the Suites on Grant Lower, Suite G35. 724-357-4000.