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Before beginning your research you may want to review information in the these Research Guides
Primary Source Document Research
Evaluating Internet Resources
Research Strategy
Reference Books
Reference books can be an excellent place to start your research, verify facts and provide statistical and informative background information. Examples of Reference books that may help your research are below.
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History -
REF E468.E53 2000
Atlas of the Civil War -
REF E468.W754 2004
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History -
REF E185.E54 1996
African American History in the Press, 1851-1899: From the Coming of the Civil War to the Rise of Jim Crow as Reported and Illustrated in Selected Newspapers of the Time -
REF E185.2.A25 1996
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience -
REF DT14.A37 2005
Encyclopedia of African History -
REF DT20.E53 2005
Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present -
REF HA202.H57 2006
The Value of a Dollar: Colonial Era to the Civil War, 1600-1865 -
REF HB235.U6 V35 2005
International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia, & Oceania, 1750-1993 -
REF HA19.M552 1998 v.3
General Biographies, Autobiographies and Slave Narratives in Paper
There are a large number of general biographical information and personal papers of leading individuals influencing the history of the United States and all subjects of slavery, civil war and reconstruction.
To find books in the Whitworth Library Collection check the Library Catalog . To find out how to borrow books directly from Gonzaga, the Spokane Community Colleges or the Northern Idaho Academic Libraries use Winborrow. If books are not available from those libraries you may also get them through Interlibrary Loan.
Published Slave Narratives include those of the following people in our collection but many others as well.
Olaudah Equiano, Booker T. Washington, Harriet A. Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, William and Ellen Craft.
There are personal and political papers reprinted on most of the leading political figures of the time period including:
Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and others
Subscription Resources for Your Research
Find Links to the leading databases for research on this subject on the History Database Page . The ones listed below are the most likely to provide information on your topic. They are divided between providing access to secondary literature and primary source document reproduction. Most of the sources available through these databases are not freely available from the internet.
America: History and Life
History Resource Center: U.S.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800
American Periodicals Series Online
New York Times Historical
Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online
Online Resources for Your Research
View the free online resources linked from the History Database Page . Although there are many resources available through a Google search it is usually prudent to start with the leading history resources and primary source document repositories for finding original and well-reproduced information. Remember that knowing
American Memory --
Source: Library of Congress
The Archives Library Information Center --
Source: National Archives and Records Administration
American Civil War Homepage --
Source: University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Making of America has primary Source documents, books and magazines from the 19th century. There are two sites each with half the collection and not a good connection joining them. University of Michigan and Cornell University
Secession
Era Editorials Project --
Source: Furman University
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