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Feb

10

Broadsides Collection

Posted by sailerd  Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Images, Letters & Diaries

The University of South Carolina has a nice digital collection of over two hundred broadsides from the Colonial Era to the present. One can find broadsides related to secession, the Civil War, and a number of other topics. Almost all of the broadsides in this collection were originally printed in South Carolina. Other digital collections […]

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Feb

10

Robert C. Caldwell Collection

Posted by sailerd  Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Letters & Diaries

The Robert C. Caldwell Collection at East Carolina University offers an interesting perspective on life in the South during the Civil War. The collection consists primarily of Robert Caldwell’s letters to his wife between August 1863 and February 1865. He served with the 10th Battalion North Carolina Heavy Artillery, which remained in eastern North Carolina […]

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17

Feb

10

The New South Newspaper (1862 -1866)

Posted by sailerd  Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Historic Periodicals

The Port Royal New South (1862-1866) offers an interesting perspective on life in the South Carolina lowcountry during the Civil War. The editors published the first issue of their weekly paper in March 1862, which was several months into the Union’s occupation of Port Royal. While it promised to “abstain from the discussion of exciting […]

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16

Feb

10

North Carolina and the Election of 1860

Posted by   Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Letters & Diaries

As previously mentioned in this blog, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supports a fantastic website for researching all aspects of the South during the Civil War era called Documenting the American South.  On this website, there are several important resources that relate to the crucial election of 1860.  A simple search of […]

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15

Feb

10

Conference Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Harpers Ferry Raid

Posted by sailerd  Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Video

“John Brown, Slavery, and the Legacies of Revolutionary Violence in Our Own Time,” a conference held in October 2009 at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Yale University), is now available online. Over twenty scholars participated in this event, which included four different sessions – “John Brown: A Problem […]

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13

Feb

10

Seeing Slavery in a Digital Age

Posted by Matthew Pinsker  Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Rare Books

One of the great wonders of the digital age is the ability to read rare books and documents from your desktop. Admittedly, reading online isn’t always easy or fun, but nothing compares to ease of access or the ability to search the full text of these resources. A great case study for this brave new […]

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12

Feb

10

Reminiscences of My Life in Camp

Posted by   Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Rare Books, Recent Scholarship

Susie King Taylor, born 1848, wrote a book in 1902 documenting her time spent enrolled as a laundress with the Union’s 1st South Carolina Volunteers, later named 33rd regiment of the United States Colored Troops, during the Civil War.  Documenting the American South, an online resource at the University of North Carolina, has her entire […]

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12

Feb

10

Delia Locke Diaries (1855-1879)

Posted by sailerd  Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Images, Letters & Diaries

When Delia Locke and her husband moved to northern California in 1855, she started a diary that she continued to write in until her death in 1922. Thanks to the University of the Pacific, her diary entries between 1855 and 1879 are available online. Locke not only recorded detailed observations about daily life, but she […]

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Feb

10

John Omenhausser, Civil War Sketchbook (1864-1865)

Posted by sailerd  Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Images

Confederate John Jacob Omenhausser, who was captured in 1864 and spent about a year at a Union prison camp in Maryland, filled a sketchbook with over sixty paintings of camp life. The University of Maryland does not have all of Omenhausser’s paintings, but this one is the largest. Omenhausser, who served with the 46th Virginia […]

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Feb

10

HarpWeek Political Cartoons

Posted by   Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Images, Lesson Plans

HarpWeek has an online collection of political cartoons from 14 presidential elections between the years 1860-1912.  These cartoons provide a visual insight into the climate surrounding the Election of 1860, and its core issues.  Some of the cartoons require a lot of prior historical knowledge, while others can be understood with some basic analysis.  HarpWeek […]

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