Class Guides: Reconstruction

A nice collection of primary sources on a variety of topics.

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A nice little collection of primary source docs.

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"We help to to connect scholars of all levels to primary sources related to the Americas from roughly 1500 to 1900." Includes links to many digitized collections.

"The Valley project presents the complex historical record of the people of a northern community and a southern community, one in Pennsylvania and another in Virginia, both in the Great Valley that stretches across the Mason Dixon line, throughout the era of the American Civil War.
Franklin County and Augusta County, about 200 miles apart, shared a great deal but differed in two profound ways: the Virginia county was built around slavery and followed its state into secession, war, emancipation, and Reconstruction. The Pennsylvania county, bordering slavery and with a substantial free Black population, followed the path of the United States through the war and its consequences."

"Their Own Words is a digital collection of books, pamphlets, letters, and diaries, dating from the latter eighteenth through the early twentieth century, that reflects the history of the United States. This collection currently contains more than 34,500 individual pages of text and corresponding transcriptions, covering a variety of topics, including: colonial American politics; U.S. politics, government, and foreign relations; historical biography and autobiography; slavery and abolition; the American Civil War; the temperance movement; foreign travel; economics; medicine; philosophy; and theology."

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