Research Tools: “The American Civil War: A Collection of Free Online Primary Sources”
Here’s a link to new webliography published in the May 2015 issue of C&RL News (College and Research Libraries News) that we think might be of interest to many of you and/or those you work with.
Kudos to the compiler/author of this webliography, Susan Birkenseer, a librarian at Saint Mary’s College of California, for her excellent work.
The webliography runs about 2000 words.
Title
The American Civil War: A collection of free online primary sources
Author
Susan Birkenseer
Source
C&RL News
Vol 76, No 5 (2015)
From the Introduction:
Hundreds of websites offer insight into the American Civil War. This guide is not comprehensive, but it highlights a diverse collection of free websites of primary sources for the study of the war. These websites include digitized newspaper archives for both the Union and Confederate sides of
Resources are organized into the following categories:
- Newspapers
- Maps and photographs
- Diaries and letters
- Dispatches and battles
- Slavery and abolitionism
- Confederacy
Direct to Full Text Webliography: “The American Civil War: A Collection of Free Online Primary Sources”
Filed under: Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Maps, News, Resources
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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