Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech has sponsored a gateway to 125 links to online primary sources.

Overviews, emancipation, wartime discussions of Reconstruction, postwar view from Washington, interpretations, key national leaders, Compromise of 1877, Southern States, Ku Klux Klan, Freedmen, scholarly studies, and Northern States.
--from the University of Illinois at Chicago, last updated 2006--***many of the links provided are non-functional*** but the list still includes excellent active sources. If you get a bad link, copy and paste the title into a google search and try again--it may have only slightly changed its web address.

Part of a Library of Congress exhibit.

Excellent overview, documents, images, additional resources.

Use the Lowcountry Digital Library to view online exhibitions and to search for primary sources

A SUPERB bibliography on Civil War memory, including general sources, veterans and commemorative societies, monuments, and the "Lost Cause." Sponsored by the Center for Civil War Research at the University of Mississippi.

UT-Austin graduate History Department project looking at the American Civil War within a global context.

Very impressive site with documents from four states arranged by county, theme, and battles. Includes sound.

For Pre-Civil War Era, Slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction, includes overview, textbook, documents, events, people, music, film, images, "do history," multimedia, for teachers, links, and quizzes.

Use the Digital Public Library of America to discover primary source sets related to the Civil War (Thanks, Ellie!)

Includes section on Texas.

Sample documents from Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867.

Skip down to section 1851-1875.

One of the free databases within Fold3.com

Links to major papers from Johnson's presidency.

Scroll down to File 12 and the letters from Patti Steagall (later Norris), 1859-1891. During the Civil War she was a schoolgirl in Gonzales County, Texas, but postwar she became a Confederado in Brazil.

from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, with essays, primary sources, teaching resources, and multimedia, including short lectures by Eric Foner.

Dr. Anne Sarah Rubin designed this digital project around her work on Sherman’s 1864 March to the Sea. Digital maps and videos highlight the civilian, military, tourism, and fictional accounts of the March.

Digital collection includes papers, cartoons, sheet music, and photographs

"The portal for all things historical about women in Texas."