HS 309 - Civil War & Reconstruction: Home

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• Library of Congress
  • Chronicling America: Historic Newspapers
  • Civil War Collection
• Cornell University's War of the Rebellion Online
• Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade
  • "Explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade."
• Freedom Narratives
  • The digital repository "Freedom Narratives focuses on the enforced migration of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade from the 16th to the 19th century. The biographical accounts included here include the testimonies and stories of individuals born in West Africa whose voices have long been silenced."
• Gettysburg College Digital Collections
  • Civil War Era Collections (1830-1877)
  • Civil War Reunions and Reminiscences
• Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery
  • "Launched in 2017, Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery aims to identify, digitize, transcribe, and publish ads placed in newspapers across the United States (and beyond) by formerly enslaved people searching for family members and loved ones after emancipation."
• Mapping Occupation
  • University of Georgia project that "reorients our understanding of the Reconstruction that followed Confederate surrender by presenting new views of southern political space.  It argues that U.S. power existed where the government could enforce its laws through the Army."
• Penn State Civil War Digital Collections
  • PA Civil War Era Newspapers
  • Civil War Era Diaries
• Private Voices
  • "The offspring of the Corpus of American Civil War Letters (CACWL) project. Michael Ellis of Missouri State University and Michael Montgomery of the University of South Carolina began the project in 2007 with the aim of seeking and transcribing letters written during the Civil War to gather evidence of regional American English in the 19th century. As of May 2018, the project has amassed more than ten thousand letters and diaries written during the conflict by common soldiers and their families from all parts of the country."
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro - Digital Library on Slavery.