SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES

American History Online
Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
To use American History Online at home, see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder for user name and password. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.

Biography Resource Center
Use this Gale (InfoTrac) database to research important people throughout history!
To use Biography Resource Center at home, enter a library card number from Fay School (see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder) or any public library in Massachusetts in the box below. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.

WEB SITES

American Memory
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. This Library of Congress site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. Click SEARCH and type CIVIL WAR to browse, or type a more specific search term. Gettysburg Address.

A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln
From the Digital History web site.

Declaration of Causes of Seceding States
Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina & Texas.

Abraham Lincoln
Information about his election in 1860 and his presidency from the Internet Public Library.

Civil War Life
"An online library of stories and articles about civilian life during the Civil War."

The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
An online version of one of the primary sources of the U.S. Civil War (70 volumes, published in 1880-1901 by the War Records Office). Searchable. Part of the "Making of America" series by Cornell University Library.

Civil War Battles
A summary of battles from the American Battlefield Protection Program.

Civil War Maps
View PRIMARY SOURCE maps from the American Memory Collection.

Intelligence in the Civil War
All about the spy war that went on during the Civil War (from the CIA).

100 Milestone Documents
Consider the rights and responsibilities of citizens in our democracy, by exploring 100 influential documents of American history from 1776 to 1965. View the actual documents and transcripts.

Songs of the Civil War
Musical primary source material.

Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
Songs and poems from both the Confederate and Union sides, plus selected images from the Library of Congress.

Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
Records of millions of soldiers plus histories of selected units and battles.

New York City Draft Riots of 1863
This excerpt from the book "In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863" by Leslie M. Harris. describes the July 1863 riots in New York City that followed the enactment of a new conscription lottery law.

Home of the American Civil War
Information and photos of important people, battles and maps. Learn about the army, the navy, medical care, and conditions for soldiers. Be sure to look at the "Civil War Potpourri" sectionwhich contains many diverse subjects from boys in the war to the ethnic make-up of the troops.

The Crisis of the Union
An Electronic Archive of Documents about the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War, containing "pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880."

The Southern Homefront
"The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865, documents Southern life during the Civil War, especially the unsuccessful attempt to create a viable nation state as evidenced in both private and public life."

American Civil War Collections
Civil War letters and diary entries, including images of the original documents.

Letters of a New Hampshire Soldier
Letters written by Calvin Shedd, a soldier from New Hampshire who fought in Florida.

Women Soldiers of the Civil War
Very interesting stories from the National Archives.

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
To provide American citizens direct online access to the basic Federal Government documents that define our democratic society, a core group of current and historical government publications is available for free, permanent, public access.

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
The Avalon Project mounts digital documents relevent to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. There is a wealth of PRIMARY SOURCE material at Avalon. Typing CIVIL WAR in the search box yields many results, so use more specific search terms.

ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Britannica Online
The complete Encyclopædia Britannica (high school), Compton's by Britannica (middle school) and Britannica Elementary (elementary school) and the Web's Best Sites.
To use Britannica Online at home, see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder for user name and password. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.

Grolier Online
A complete reference library: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, The New Book of Popular Science, Lands and Peoples, and America the Beautiful.
To use Grolier Online at home, see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder for user name and password. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.

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updated 02/26/2008