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United States Civil War & Reconstruction RESOURCE GUIDE Booth Library Eastern Illinois University United States Civil War & Reconstruction A Selected List of Resources Booth Library has a large collection of learning resources to support the study of the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction by undergraduates, graduates and faculty. The materials are held in the reference collection, the main book holdings, the journal collection and the online full-text databases. Books and journal articles from other libraries may be obtained using interlibrary loan. This is a subject guide to selected works in this field that are held by the library. The citations on this list represent only a small portion of the available literature owned by Booth Library. Additional materials can be found by searching the EIU Online Catalog. The following subject headings can be used to search the EIU Online Catalog for Civil War materials: Abolitionists – United States Confederate States of America Copperhead movement Illinois – History – Civil War Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Reconstruction – southern states Slavery – United States – History United States – history – civil war To find books, browse the shelves in these call numbers for the following subject areas: E 415.6 Collected Works of American Statements E 456-655 Civil War Period, 1861-1865. E 433 Slavery Question, 1853-1857 E 461-655 The Civil War, 1861-1865 E 436-440.5 Buchanan’s Administration, 1857-1861 E 482-489 Confederate States of America. E 438 Slavery Question, 1857-1861 E 491-586 Armies, Troops E 440.5 State of the Country, November 1860- E 591-600 Naval History March 4, 1861 E 660 Collected Works of American Statesmen E 441-453 Slavery in the United States, Antislavery E 666-670 Johnson’s Administration, April 15, Movements 1865-1869 E 456-459 Lincoln’s Administration, 1861- April 15, E 668 Reconstruction, 1865-1877 1865. E 671-680 Grant’s Administration, 1869-1877 PLEASE REFER TO COLLECTION LOCATION GUIDE FOR LOCATION OF ALL MATERIALS REFERENCE SOURCES Encyclopedias Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia ………………………………………………………….. REF E457.N48 American Civil War: Gale Library of Daily Life ………………………………… REF E468.9.A46 2008 Andrew Johnson: A Biographical Companion …………………………………....... REF E667.S33 2001 Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front ……………………………… REF E468.9.M127 2003 Civil War Military Machine: Weapons and Tactics of the Union and Confederate Armed Forces ……………………………………………….. REF E491.D77x 1993 Civil War Naval Encyclopedia ……………………………………………………... REF E591.C53 2011 Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine ……………………………………………… REF E621.S347 2008 Encyclopedia of the American Civil War ……………………………………………. REF E468.E5 2000 Encyclopedia of the Confederacy …………………………………………………... REF E487.E55 1993 Historical Dictionary of Reconstruction …………………………………………… REF E668.T66 1991 Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia …………………………………………….. REF E457.5.S793 2010 Women during the Civil War: An Encyclopedia …………………………………… REF E628.H37 2004 Women in the American Civil War ……………………………………………….. REF E628.W655 2008 Atlases Atlas of the Civil War …………………………………………………………. REF G1201.S5 A85 1994 Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War ……………………………………………... Stacks G1201.S5 S9 1983 Historical Atlas of the Congresses of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 ……………………………………………………………... REF G1281.F8 M3 1994 Official Atlas of the Civil War ………………………………………………….. REF G1201.S5 U6 1958 West Point Atlas of the Civil War ………………………………………… Oversize G1201.S5 U58 1962 Chronologies Chronological Tracking of the American Civil War: per the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion ……………………………………... REF E468.3.M67 1994 Civil War Day by Day; An Almanac, 1861-1865 ………………………………………... REF E468.3 L6 Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865 …………………………………………… Stacks E591.U569x Dictionaries Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy ……………………………………………... REF E467.W2 Biographical Dictionary of the Union: Northern Leaders of the Civil War ……….. REF E467.B56 1995 Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress …………………………………... REF JK9663 .W3 Civil War Dictionary ………………………………………………………………… REF E468.B7 1988 Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders ……………………………………... REF E467.W29 Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders ……………………………….. REF E467.W3 More Generals in Gray ……………………………………………………………… REF E467.A4 1995 Who Was Who in the Civil War …………………………………………………….. REF E467.S56 1988 Statistics Compendium of the War of the Rebellion ……………………………………….. Stacks E491 .D99 1959 Numbers & Losses in the Civil War in America, 1861-65 ……………………….. Stacks E491.L77 1957 Regimental Losses in the American Civil War ………………………………. REF Desk E461.C5 1997X PLEASE REFER TO COLLECTION LOCATION GUIDE FOR LOCATION OF ALL MATERIALS SECONDARY SOURCES General histories of the Civil War, secondary sources Americans in Conflict: The Civil War and Reconstruction ……………………………. Stacks E468 .L62 Battle Chronicles of the Civil War ………………………………………………. Stacks E470 .B29 1989 Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era ……………………………………….. Stacks E173 .O94 v. 6 Centennial History of the Civil War ……………………………………………………. Stacks E468.C29 Civil War, A Narrative …………………………………………………………………… Stacks E468.F7 Civil War and Reconstruction …………………………………………………… Stacks E468 .R26 1953 Confederate Nation, 1861-1865 ……………………………………………………….. Stacks E173.N4X Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction ………... Stacks E468 .G85 2012 Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865 ……………….. Stacks E468 .W425 2000 How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War ………………………. Stacks U727 .H37 1983 Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War ……………………………... Stacks E470 .E35 2001 Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction …………………………………... Stacks E468 .M23 Trial by Fire: A People’s History of the Civil War and Reconstruction …………. Stacks E468.S64 1982 Why the South Lost the Civil War ………………………………………………. Stacks E 487.W48 1986 Photograph histories, secondary sources African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album ………………………... Stacks E540.N3 C64 2012 American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War ………………………….. Stacks E 468.7.C3 1960x Photographic History of the Civil War ……………………………………………... Stacks E 468.7.M64 Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War …………………………………... Stacks E 468.7.G19 1959 Origins of the Civil War, secondary sources America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink ………………………………………… Stacks E436 .S78 1990 Ballots for Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837-1860 …………... Stacks E449 .S49 Dred Scott Decision: Law or Politics? …………………………………………… Stacks KF4545.S5 K8 Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War ……………………………………………………….. Stacks E436 .F6 1970 Free Soil: The Election of 1848 ……………………………………………………….. Stacks E420 .R24 Lincoln vs. Douglas; The Great Debates Campaign …………………………………. Stacks E457.4 .H4 Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun ………………………………... Stacks E339 .P47 1987 Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War …………………………... Stacks E459 .L48 1992 Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1869 ……… Stacks E449 .I26 Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 …………………………………………………………... Stacks E449 .I26 John Brown’s War against Slavery ……………………………………………... Stacks E451 .M37 2009 Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 ………………………………………………… Stacks E457.4 .L7726 Nebraska Question, 1852-1854 ……………………………………………………….. Stacks E433 .M34 Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War …………… Stacks E628 .V46 1991 Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856 ……………………………………….. Stacks JK2357 1852 Political Crisis of the 1850s …………………………………………………… Stacks E415.7 .H74 1983 Race & Politics: “Bleeding Kansas” and the Coming of the Civil War ………………. Stacks E433 .R25 Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay ………………………………………... Stacks E468.9 .F84 1990 Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860 …………………. Stacks E450 .C43 South and the Politics of Slavery, 1852-1856 ………………………………………….. Stacks F213 .C69 Secession, secondary sources (Secession cont. on page 4) PLEASE REFER TO COLLECTION LOCATION GUIDE FOR LOCATION OF ALL MATERIALS And the War Came: The North and the Secession Crisis, 1860-1861 ……………….. Stacks E440.5 .S78 Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina …………………………………………... Stacks F273 .C45 Old Gentlemen’s Convention: The Washington Peace Conference of 1861 ………. Stacks E440.5 .G965 Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis ……….. Stacks E459 .C92 1989 Secession Conventions of the South ………………………………………………….. Stacks E440.5 .W9 Secession Movement in the Middle Atlantic States …………………………………. Stacks E440.5 .W96 Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860 ……………………………. Stacks E440.5 .B28 Abraham Lincoln, secondary sources Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution …………………… Stacks E457.2 .M4758 1990 Lincoln …………………………………………………………………………… Stacks E457 .D66 1995 Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership …………………... Stacks E457.2 .C84 Lincoln and His Generals …………………………………………………………….. Stacks E470 .W78 Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery …………………………………………………. Stacks E457.4 .W73 Lincoln and the Radicals ……………………………………………………………….. Stacks E459 .W5 Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era ………………………………... Stacks E457.8 .D69 Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s …………………………………… Stacks E457.3 .F4 1964x Jefferson Davis, secondary sources After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate nationalism …………. Stacks E487 .E8
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