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All Civil War books will be on reserve
in the Lewis Library UNTIL May 15th. REFERENCE
BOOKS Encyclopedias: World Book; Afro-American
Encyclopedia; American National Biography Black Notable Black American Women CIVIL
WAR HISTORY & PEOPLE BOOKS History of Civil War: Dewey Decimal 973.3
(covers all areas of Civil War) ---ON CART Biographies 921 (in order of subject’s
last name) SPECIAL
FOCUS SUBTOPIC BOOKS African American Pictorial History of the Black The Black Experience in Art/Music Art and Life in Folk Song History of Panorama of American Popular Music 784 EWAN Songs of the Civil War (video) Food Civil War Cooking: The Union 641.59 DOS Civil War Cooking: The Confederacy 641.59 DOS Spies The Master Book of Spies 327 MCCORMICK Dress/Clothing What People Wore 391 GORSLINE Immigrants in Civil War: German &
Irish Dewey Decimal 301-305 PERIODICALS
(MAGAZINES) Clara
Barton—Cobblestone (Civil War
Nurse) Lincoln--KidsDiscover Women of the Civil War--Cobblestone LEWIS
VIDEOS (can be viewed in library) The Divided Touring Civil War Battlefields Frederick Douglas The American Experience The Red Badge of Courage (fiction) Africans in Ulysses S. Grant Famous African Americans Robert E. Lee Stonewall Jackson Songs of the Civil War SUBSCRIPTION
DATABASES through June, 2006 (use your blue public library card number to access these
restricted resources) Remember,
always E-MAIL articles home to read and copy the citation for your
bibliography. American History: SDPL only Archive of over 1,350 primary source
documents from Access to a range of online
history collections. Also includes
maps, encyclopedia articles, magazine articles, quick explanations, photos.
Some things need Flash but if you go to printable version it should pull up
here at school. High school level and above New York Times Online: SDPL only Complete run of keyword searchable articles
from the New York Times, from Remember,
always E-MAIL articles home to read and copy the citation for your
bibliography. GALE Biography
Resource Center: Lewis & SDPL Over 900,000 biographies. Can e-mail articles home.
Encyclopedia articles (narrative biographies). Photo & suggested websites
too. Reading level is 7th and above. General
Reference Center Gold: up to College level Can limit current
search to journals: Civil War Times and Civil War History GALE:
History Resource Center (U.S.) Subject search. GALE:
e-book American Civil War History Reference (PDF) Go to History, click on Civil War book, use
keyword search GALE:
Junior Edition subdivisions of United States Civil War 1861-1865 Collect articles in
saved list and e-mail home. Great for narrowing sub-topics. GALE:
Kid’s InfoBits: Lewis & SDPL Go to U.S. History then Civil War for online
access articles from magazines: Appleseeds, Cobblestone
& Kids Discover. Mark articles you want then e-mail the whole list to
yourself. Easy to read for background information.
Do advanced search “United States Civil War” (subject)
AND Cobblestone (source). Or go into topic by clicking on History then U.S.
Civil War. PROQUEST – eLibrary – topics – United States History – Civil War OR just click here…PROQUEST: U.S. History Civil War articles Specific Database Articles Women
of the Civil War --article with links Free
Web Pages Citation for Free Web
Page. EASIEST TO OPEN UP SECOND WINDOW AND
CREATE CITATION USING www.citationmachine.net OR open up your e-mail on a second window
and copy and paste the URL so you can have it later. OR copy all this down. Here’s what you
need!!!!! (always double-check URL to make sure it copied
perfectly). Author last
name, first. Title of article/page. Name of
publisher/creator. Date of publication. Date retrieved from Internet. URL. For example LaMadrid, Tim. "Swigart Wins
2005 Teacher of the Year." Library of Congress
Listing of all Civil War Subject Headings and
links to corresponding collections http://memory.loc.gov/learn/start/keywords/civilwar.html Library of Congress: American Memory
Collections Civil War Treasures The images in this digital collection are
drawn from the New-York Historical Society's rich archival collections that document
the Civil War. They include recruiting posters for New York City regiments of
volunteers; stereographic views documenting the mustering of soldiers and of
popular support for the Union in New York City; photography showing the war's
impact, both in the north and south; and drawings and writings by ordinary
soldiers on both sides. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html Civil War Maps, a subset
of Map Collections: 1500-2004 Approximately 2,240 Civil
War maps and charts and 76 atlases and sketchbooks depicting battles, troop
positions and movements, engagements, and fortifications. Included are maps of the whole http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. Contains
1,118 photographs which feature Civil War encampments, battlefields, and
portraits (including Lincoln, Lee, and Grant) as captured by Mathew Brady and
his staff of photographers. Brady's photography exhibits marked the first time
Americans witnessed the carnage of war in their homeland. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song"
Sheet Music about Sheet-music compositions about http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html African American Sheet Music 1850-1920 1,305 pieces of
African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. The collection includes many songs from the heyday of
antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist
movement of the same period. Numerous titles are associated with the novel and
the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Civil War period music includes songs about
African-American soldiers and the plight of the newly emancipated slave. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmhome.html Children of the Civil War http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/civilwar/slide1.html Images of the Civil War http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:@field(DOCID+@lit(ncdhasm.b1051)) Additional Free Web Pages—suggested by students, Mr. Nelson and
Mrs. Sims http://www.ket.org/civilwar/primary.html The
Valley of the Shadow: details life in
two communities, one in the north and one in the south. Digital
archive of letters, diaries, speeches, census and church records. Time
period covers from time of John Brown’s Raid to Reconstruction Era. http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu Civil
War Food http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettkidz/hardtack.htm Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System A database of resources
about the Civil War organized by the National Park Service. American Civil War Homepage: http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html American Civil War Records: National
Archives http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/military/civil_war_records.html The Emancipation Proclamation http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/index.html General links: Well organized link o’Rama to Civil War information. You will need to cite the
sources carefully, however, because these pages do "borrow" information
from other sources. Look critically at the sources they list. Civil War Home links American Civil War links The Civil War http://www.teacheroz.com/civilwar.htm SD
Public Library Videography for Civil War
Prepared for - Jennifer Hardison-Sims,
Library Media Teacher for Mark Nelson, History Department All links working as of April, 2006 |
