American Civil War HIST 342 - Resource Guide

This exhibit marks the publication of The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Library of Congress
Black History and Culture. A noteworthy and singular publication, the Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African-American collections

The American Civil War Museum explores, inspires,
and promotes the public’s understanding of the Civil War – its causes, course,and consequences.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA).

America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 from the Library of Congress

Digital image of the original document.

Harper’s Weekly
Electronic version of Harper’s Weekly coverage of black America during the 1850s to 70s, including editorials, news stories, cartoons, advertisements, verse, and fiction, with timelines

Lists Civil War related websites.

C-SPAN covers LIVE gavel-to-gavel floor proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives.
C-SPAN2 covers LIVE gavel-to-gavel floor proceedings of the U.S. Senate.
C-SPAN3 covers public affairs events, congressional hearings and history programming.

Provides links to websites related to the Civil War.

This guide is a compilation of many of the Civil War resources at the Library of Congress, along with links to selected resources outside the Library.