WEBSITES FOR CIVIL WAR RESEARCH

 

Civil War Biography Links

  Civil War Biography Page

  The Generals of Gettysburg

 Civil War Women  

 Civil War Generals

 

Civil War Mega-sites (many different topics with links)

  Dakota State University: The Civil War

 U. S. Civil War Center

Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War  

 

BCPS Research Model: Civil War Sites
Harrison's American Civil War site

  American Civil War Homepage

 

Outline of the Civil War: With Links

 

  


Searchable Site about the Civil War : The Civil War 

 

PRIMARY SOURCES RELATED TO THE CIVIL WAR AND GETTYSBURG

 

Fee-Based Databases with American History Topics (available through PHMS/BCPS/MDK-12)

 American History (from ABC-CLIO)

 Student Resource Center

  SIRS Knowledge Source

 World Book Online

 

Fee-Based Databases available through the Baltimore County Public Library (using a BCPL card barcode)

 History Databases from BCPL

 Encyclopedia Americana

  Biography Resource Center

 Electronic Reference Books

 

Related Web Sites

Michael Shaara Biography

Father/Son Trilogy Didn't Come Easily (article on Michael and Jeff Shaara)

BookPage Interview: June 1998 Jeff Shaara

Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, British Coldstream Guard

Civil War Artillery Page

Civil War Medicine

Medicine During the Civil War

Major General John Fulton Reynolds

Gettysburg National Military Park

Disposition of Both Armies During Three Days of Battle in Gettysburg

Irene Hunt (from the Educational Paperback Association)

Context of Across Five Aprils (Information about Irene Hunt)

 

Links from the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress website:

African American Perspectives

An American Time Capsule

Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library

Civil War Hospital Notes: from the Walt Whitman Notebook

Selected Civil War Photographs

America's First Look into the Camera

By Popular Demand: Portraits of Presidents

 

Other Sites to Search:

Civil War at The Smithsonian

The History Place: The Civil War

The History Channel

Live Help for Hard-to-Find Information:

Maryland AskUsNow! - online chat with a reference librarian any time of day or night, seven days a week

 General Search Tools

Note: Type keywords for your topic into the search window of one of these search tools. Use double quotes for phrases. Make sure to add "civil war" to your topic. Follow this example:

"dorothea dix" "civil war"
Google Ask.com Dogpile
Alta Vista Wisenut Vivisimo
Yahoo Excite

 

 

Updated April 3, 2007 ---J. Caldwell