Contains primary source material on the American Civil War, including letters, diaries and newspapers. Also student projects from the University of Virginia and speeches, fictional writings, spirituals, legal texts.
Artifacts from the New York Historical Society. Materials include stereographs, photographs, posters, sketches, letters (including three from Walt Whitman), papers. From the Library of Congress' American Memory collection.
Digitized collection of a three-volume diary of Horatio Nelson Taft as he worked as an examiner in the US Patent Office, including an account of Lincoln's assassination.
Kentucky group who studies all aspects of the Civil War and works to promote the interchange of knowledge about it. Includes membership information, a newsletter, and Kentucky Civil War links.
Paper that investigates American visual satire (political cartoons) during the Civil War era. An American Studies Project at the University of Virginia.
Collection of newpaper editorials in the period preceding the Civil War, concerning four events: the Nebraska bill debates, Dred Scott, John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry and the attack on Senator Charles Sumner.