PATHFINDER-THE CIVIL WAR

ONLINE SOURCES

The C.H. Booth Library has a number of online resources available in the library and from home.  When using these online resources from home, you must enter your library card number.

The C.H. Booth Library website is www.chboothlibrary.org.  Under Collections, on left side of screen, click on Online Databases.

ICONN.org is a good choice to help you find magazine articles on your particular subject. If  Powersearch is too broad, from More iConn Content , on left, you may select Search Individual Resources and limit search to Academic OneFile, General Reference Center Gold, etc.

Also, under Other Useful Sites, click on Historic Documents and look at

• American Civil War Collections
• American Memory Collection
• Core Documents of US Democracy
• Documents for the Study of American History
• Douglass
• Gettysburg Address
• Milestone Documents
• Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War

A to Z Maps Online. From Main Menu select Antique Map Collection and then select LOC Military Battles and Campaigns.  At this point type in the battle you are interested in and many copies of old maps become available to you.

BOOKS

REFERENCE SOURCES

• American Eras   Volume 6   REF 973 AME
• Annals of America   Volumes 9 & 10   REF 973 ANN  (Primary Source)
• Atlas of American Wars   REF HISTORICAL ATLAS CASE
• Atlas of the Civil War  REF YA 973.7 ATL
• Battle History of the Civil War  REF YA 973.7 KAT
• The Civil War  REF YA 973.7 CIV
• Civil War America   REF 973 ALM
• Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front   REF 973.7 MAR
• Civil War Archive: the History of the Civil War in Documents 

           REF 973.78 CIV (Primary Source)

• The Confederacy  REF 973.713 MAC
• Connecticut’s African American Soldiers in the Civil War   CT HIST REF 974.6 MAC
• Documents of American History   REF 973 COM  (Primary Source)
• Encyclopedia of the American Civil War  REF YA 973.7 HEI
• Encyclopedia of American Military History  REF 355 ENC
• The Lincoln Family  REF 973.7 NEE
• Letters of the Civil War  Ref Desk  (Primary Source)
• Our Nation’s Archive: the History of the United States in Documents  REF 973 OUR  (Primary Source)
• Rebels and Renegades  REF 303.48 HAM
• Reconstruction Era  REF YA 973.8 MAT
• Slavery in America: from Colonial Times to Civil War  REF 973 SCH
• Women Civil War Spies of the Confederacy  REF YA 973.7 PHI
• Women Civil War Spies of the Union  REF YA 973.7  PHI
• Women Doctors and Nurses of the Civil War  REF YA 973.7 FAV

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Books about the Civil War are in call number 973.7 in both Adult and YA.  When looking up a more specific topic within the larger topic of the Civil War it is best to use, for example, the SUBJECT heading of “Civil War 1861-1865- women” or “Civil War 1861-1865- prisons” etc.  Works of fiction about the Civil War can be found in the same way, for example “Civil War 1861-1865- fiction.”

Biographies can be found in the Biography sections of both YA and Adult according to the subject of the book :  B Lincoln, B Grant, B Lee, B Sherman, B Douglass, B Barton etc.

                                      VIDEOS and DVDS

• Civil War   VIDEO 973.7 CIV
• Civil War Combat   DVD 973.7 CIV
• Civil War Gold   DVD 973.7 CIV
• Civil War Journal   DVD 973.731 CIV
• Frederick Douglass  VIDEO B DOUGLASS
• Last Days of the Civil War   DVD 973.7 LAS
• Lincoln and Lee at Antietam   DVD 973.7092 LIN
• New England and the Civil War  VIDEO  973.781 NEW

                                   SOMETHING SPECIAL

• Songs and Stories of the Civil War    MUSIC ROOM  782.42 SIL
• Songs of the Civil War   MUSIC ROOM   782.42  SON

Rev. 3/11