Gender and the Civil War - HIS 8002 - Judith Giesberg

Selected Primary Source Collections

General

• Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 (Gale)
  Offers digital access to books, pamphlets, serials, and other sources published worldwide from 1500 to the early 20th century and documenting the history of the Americas. Titles were selected based on Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana.
• American History, 1493-1945 (Adam Matthew Digital)
  Includes letters, diaries, government documents, business records, books, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, photographs, artwork, and maps sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City.

Gender

• Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs (ProQuest)
  Features digital copies of books, pamphlets and periodicals related to women's history in general and the movement for women's rights in particular. Coverage is international and extends from the middle of the 15th century to the middle of the 20th century.
• Everyday Life and Women in America (Adam Matthew Digital)
  Contains periodicals, monographs, pamphlets, and broadsides that shine a light on American social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Gender, Identity and Social Change (Adam Matthew Digital)
  Documents the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations, and the struggle for women’s rights, from the 19th century to the present.

Slavery

• Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law (HeinOnline)
  Features legal materials on slavery including every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.
• Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860 (Library of Congress)
  Presents trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, and other works of historical importance concerning the experiences of slaves in the courts of the American colonies and the United States.
• Black Abolitionist Papers (ProQuest)
  Features newspapers articles, manuscripts, letters, pamphlets, proceedings, and books written by African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865.
• Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice (Adam Matthew Digital)
  Provides access to original manuscripts, court documents, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps, and some secondary sources on the topic from 1490 to 2007.
• American Slavery Collection (Readex)
  Presents a collection of primary sources dealing with slavery in the United States between 1820-1922. Materials include books, pamphlets, graphic materials, and ephemera.

Medicine

• Medical Services and Warfare (Adam Matthew Digital)
  Documents the history of injury, treatment, and disease on the front line from 1850 to 1949. Covers the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the First and Second World War. Charts scientific advances through hospital records, medical reports, and first-hand accounts. Includes a Civil War patient database that permits queries of patient records. Women at war, nursing, sanitation, and medical development and equipment are some of the key themes of this collection.
• Popular Medicine in America (Adam Matthew Digital)
  Documents the history of popular remedies and treatments in nineteenth century America through primary sources from the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The collection includes books, trade cards, pamphlets, broadsides, posters, advertisements, anatomy guides, and ephemera.
• Clara Barton Papers (Library of Congress)
  Presents the papers of Clara Barton (1821-1912), nurse and educator. The bulk of the collection dates from 1861 to 1912 including correspondence, diaries and journals, reports, addresses, legal and financial papers, organizational records, lectures, writings, scrapbooks, biographical material, and memorabilia. They relate primarily to Barton's work providing relief services during the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War in Europe, her founding in 1881 and subsequent leadership of the American National Red Cross, and her establishment in 1905 of the National First Aid Association of America.
• Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers (Library of Congress)
  Features the papers of Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke (1817-1901), a Civil War nurse and agent for the United States Sanitary Commission who was known as "Mother Bickerdyke" to Union soldiers. A large portion of the papers consists of correspondence grouped into family, general, and special correspondence files.

Magazines

• American Periodicals (ProQuest)
  Provides access to a selection of American magazines and journals published from the colonial period to the early 20th century.
• Godey's Lady's Book (Accessible Archives)
  Presents the complete run of the magazine from 1830 to 1898. Also published as Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book. Includes all color plates as they originally appeared in the magazine.

Newspapers

Pennsylvania

• Philadelphia Inquirer, 1860-2009 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
  Provides access to the complete archive up to 2009.
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1786-2008 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
  Provides access to the complete archive up to 2008.
• Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County (Accessible Archives)
  Offers access to a small collection of 19th century Delaware County newspapers.
• Pennsylvania Civil War Newspaper Collection (Penn State University Libraries)
  Features selected Pennsylvania newspapers published during the pivotal years before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War.

United States

• Nineteenth Century US Newspapers (Gale)
  Features a large and diverse selection of 19^th century US newspapers including those published by African Americans, Native Americans, women’s rights groups, labor groups, and the Confederacy.
• America's Historical Newspapers (Readex)
  Offers selected American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922.
• African American Newspapers: The 19th Century (Accessible Archives)
  Provides access to the major 19th century African American newspapers.
• Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (Accessible Archives)
  Provides access to Northern and Southern newspapers published during the American Civil War.
• New York Times: 1851- (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
  Provides full text access to the complete archive except for the most current three years.

Encyclopedias, Handbooks & Companions

Secondary Sources