History 456: Digital Collections

(Library of Congress)
Features over 700 musical compositions of brass band music that flourished in the 1850s in the United States and remained popular through the nineteenth century.

(Digital Library of Georgia)
Provides links to a number of digital projects related to Georgia during this time period.

(Library of Congress)
Contains approximately 2,240 Civil War maps and charts and 76 atlases and sketchbooks that are held within the Geography and Map Division, 200 maps from the Library of Virginia, and 400 maps from the Virginia Historical Society.

(Duke University)
Diaries, papers, and letters from Duke University's archival collections.

(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Includes thematic collections of primary sources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture. Collections of interest for this course include "North American Slave Narratives," "First-Person Narratives of the American South," and "The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865."

(Library of Congress, American Memory)
An extensive collection of speeches, articles, and scrapbooks with images.

(Library of Congress)
More than 1,000 special portrait photographs represent both Union and Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War (1861-1865). The photographs often show weapons, hats, canteens, musical instruments, painted backdrops, and other details that enhance the research value of the collection.

(Library of Congress)
Contains pamphlets and books concerning legal aspects of the experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States.

(Virginia Center for Digital History)
An archive of resources collected from Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Includes newspapers, diaries and letters, church records, census data, maps and images, and soldier's records.

(Library of Congress)
Consists of correspondence, pay vouchers, orders, muster rolls, enlistment and discharge papers, receipts, contracts, affidavits, tax records, miscellaneous military documents, and printed matter spanning the years of 1773 to 1987, with the bulk of the material dating from the Civil War period.