Research Guides: American Civil War: Databases

Databases

History Databases
Multidisciplinary Databases

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources covering more than 60 disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and mathematics.

Use JSTOR Tutorials for help with searching in the database.

America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive database of articles covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) This link opens in a new window
Searchable database of the individuals who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples of North America This link opens in a new window
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Bibliographic database covering all aspects of Indigenous culture, history, and life in North America

In the First Person
Provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world.

Dissertations and Theses A&I This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of citations and abstracts to dissertations & theses from around the world from 1743 to the present day.
Dissertations and Theses - Texas This link opens in a new window
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Search the records of electronic theses and dissertations submitted by Texas institutions that are members of the Texas Digital Library.
EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
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Access over 32,000 full-text scholarly, reference and professional eBooks from leading university, academic and professional publishers.
Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Provides full text, abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as specialized magazines.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources covering more than 60 disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and mathematics.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to the full text of eJournals and eBooks in the humanities and social sciences.

U-Search - History

Suggested Keywords

War Between the States; War of Rebellion; War of Secession; War for Southern Independence; War for the Union; War of Northern [or Southern] Aggression; Freedom War; names of battles; names of prominent individual.

Manassas AND Bull Run

United States History Civil War 1861 1865 Personal narratives Confederate

"United States" women "Civil War"

Civil War women soldiers

United States History--19th Century

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