A Guide to Civil War Materials in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Duke University

Selected Web Sites

American Memory
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/
Includes Mathew Brady photographs from the Civil War period as well as other items pertaining to the Civil War

Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
A collection of sources on Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century, including the sections “North American Slave Narratives” and “The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865,” which documents Southern life during the Civil War

Valley of the Shadow
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
This project takes two communities one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the Civil War. The project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta Co., Va. and Franklin Co., Pa.

Guide to Civil War Materials
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/pathfinders/civil-war/
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library - Duke University
Compiled November 2001 by Janie Morris
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