E-Books Available through netLibrary

The following e-books may be helpful in preparing for this test. Click on the title to be taken directly to the book. Please note that a netLibrary account must be established using a Shorter College Library computer before an e-book can be checked out.

Abbott, Richard H. Cotton & vapital: Boston businessmen and antislavery reform, 1854-1868. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1991.

Axelrod, Alan. The complete idiot's guide to the Civil War. New York: Alpha, 1998.

Culpepper, Marilyn Mayer. Trials and triumphs: Women of the American Civil War. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1991.

Gallagher, Gary W. Lee and his generals in war and memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1998.

Golay, Michael. A ruined land: The end of the Civil War. New York: Wiley, 1999.

Hattaway, Herman. Shades of blue and gray: An introductory military history of the Civil War. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1997.

Jeffrey, Julie Roy. The great silent army of abolitionism: Ordinary women in the antislavery movement. Chapel Hill : U of North Carolina P, 1998.

Nofi, Albert A. A Civil War treasury: Being a miscellany of arms and artillery, facts and figures, legends and lore, muses and minstrels, personalities and people. Conshohocken, PA: Combined Pub., 1992.

Silber, Nina. The romance of reunion: Northerners and the south, 1865-1900. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1993.

Washington, Versalle F. Eagles on their buttons: A black infantry regiment in the Civil War. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1999.

Subject Headings

Use these terms when performing a subject search for books on this topic in the Shorter library catalog or netLibrary:

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861 - 1865

Reconstruction

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861 - 1865 -- Participation, African American

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861 - 1865 -- Participation, Afro-American

Antislavery movements -- United States

Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century

Dewey Call Number

Browse the shelves near the following call number to find books on this topic:

973.7

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