LibGuides: American History 1860-1877, Civil War & Reconstruction: Open Access

Featured Open Access

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Maps

Pennsylvania--Gettysburg, 1863 from the Library of Congress.

Eyewitness Accounts

eBooks

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Google Books: A Woman's Wartime Journal: An Account of the Passage Over a Georgia Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, as Recorded in the Diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt by Dolly Sumner Lunt
Google Books: Charles Sumner - His Complete Works by Charles Sumner
Google Books: Downing's Civil War Diary by Alexander G. Downing
Google Books: History of the San Francisco Committee Vigilance of 1851
Google Books: Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress by Abraham Lincoln
Google Books: Mr. Greeley's Letters from Texas and the Lower Mississippi, 1871 by Horace Greeley
Google Books: Roughing It by Mark Twain
Google Books: The Americans at Home by David Macrae
Google Books: The Gettysburg Speech and Other Papers by Abraham Lincoln, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman
Google Books: Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-fields: A Thrilling Narrative of Personal Experiences and Adventures in the Wonderful Gold Regions of Alaska and the Klondike, with Observations of Travel and Exploration Along the Yukon by William B. Haskell
Project Gutenberg: Mark Twain Newspaper Articles 1862-1881

Images

General Hospital, Gettysburg, August, 1863 from the Library of Congress

Video

Audio

Featured Open Access

Archives.gov: Discovering The Civil War
Archives.gov: The Emancipation Proclamation
Avalon Project - 19th Century Documents : 1800 - 1899
Civil War Trust: Civil War Overview
Department of State Milestones 1861-1865
Department of State Milestones 1866-1898
Freedmen and Southern Society Project Based at the University of Maryland. Read full text primary documents that "explain how black people traversed the bloody ground from slavery to freedom between the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 and the beginning of Radical Reconstruction in 1867."
Gettysburg National Military Park
Handbook of Civil War Texas
History.com: Alexander Graham Bell
History.com: American Civil War
History.com: Reconstruction
HistoryWorld: History of the United States of America: 1865-1900
HistoryWorld: History of the United States of America: Civil War
Library of Congress: Civil War and Reconstruction
Library of Congress: Civil War and Reconstruction Documents: Primary Documents of American History
Library of Congress: Home Sweet Home, Life in Nineteenth-Century Ohio (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, The Library of Congress)
Library of Congress: National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1880
Oakland Museum of California: Gold Fever
Smithsonian: America's New Birth of Freedom: Documents from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Texas State Library: Under the Rebel Flag: Life in Civil War Texas
U.S. Army Center of Military History - Civil War
U.S. Army Center Of Military History - Late 19th Century
U.S. Army Center of Military History - Late Nineteenth Century