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The American Civil War by Cole Kingseed
Call Number: View Online

ISBN: 0313061262

Publication Date: 2004-10-30
The American nation : primary sources by Bruce Frohnen (Editor)
Call Number: Jupiter General Collection E173 .A747 2008

ISBN: 9780865977297

Publication Date: 2009-04-24
Freedom's soldiers : the Black military experience in the Civil War by Ira Berlin; Leslie S. Rowland; Joseph Patrick Reidy
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection E540.N3 F74 1998

ISBN: 9780521634496

Publication Date: 1998-03-13
The Causes of the Civil War by Kenneth Stampp (Editor)
Call Number: Jupiter General Collection E458 .C33 1991

ISBN: 0671751557

Publication Date: 1992-01-15
The Civil War : primary documents on events from 1860 to 1865 by Ford Risley
Call Number: Boca Raton - Reference (Non-circulating) E464 .C54 2004

ISBN: 0313321264

Publication Date: 2004-10-30
Union & emancipation : essays on politics and race in the Civil War era by David W. Blight (Editor); Brooks D. Simpson (Editor)
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ISBN: 0873385659

Publication Date: 1997-01-01

Focusing on the period from the antebellum era to the aftermath of Reconstruction, these collected essays examine the dual themes of union and emancipation. The authors look at how the Civil War redefined the nature of the political and of citizenship.
The Civil War and Reconstruction Eras: Documents Decoded by John R. Vile
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central

ISBN: 9781440854293

Publication Date: 2017-10-27
The Civil War chronicle : the only day-by-day portrait of America's tragic conflict as told by soldiers, journalists, politicians, farmers, nurses, slaves, and other eyewitnesses by J. Matthew Gallman (Editor); Eric Foner (Introduction by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection E655 .C49 2000

ISBN: 0812931149

Publication Date: 2000-10-31
Free at last : a documentary history of slavery, freedom, and the Civil War by Ira Berlin; Steven F. Miller; Barbara Fields; Joseph P. Reidy; Leslie S. Rowland (Editor)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection E185.2 .F8 1992

ISBN: 1565840151

Publication Date: 1992-11-01
Incidents of the Civil War in America by Frank Leslie
Call Number: Online - free - Open Library
Lincoln's journalist John Hay's anonymous writings for the press, 1860-1864 by Michael Burlingame (Editor); John M. Hay
Call Number: Jupiter General Collection E457 .H39 1998

ISBN: 9780809322053

Publication Date: 1999-03-02
Mirror of war; the Washington star reports the Civil War. by John W. Stepp and I. William Hill
Call Number: E468.E93 M6

Publication Date: 1961
The most fearful ordeal : original coverage of the Civil War by New York Times Staff; James M. McPherson (Introduction by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection E464 .M8 2004

ISBN: 0312331231

Publication Date: 2004-06-01
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies by United States. Naval War Records Office
Call Number: Online - free - Making of America (Cornell)
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion by United States. Naval War Records Office.
Call Number: View Online HathiTrust and Government Documents N 16.6:
Presidents from Taylor through Grant, 1849-1877 debating the issues in pro and con primary documents by Jeffrey W. Coker
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ISBN: 9780313315510

Publication Date: 2002-06-30
Propaganda from the American Civil War by Paul J. Springer
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ISBN: 9781440864445

Publication Date: 2019-03-07
Slavery and Civil War : Pamphlets
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Valley of the Shadow by Edward L. Ayers; Anne S. Rubin
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection F157.F8 A94 2000

ISBN: 0393046044

Publication Date: 2000-08-01
Union--disunion--reunion.Three decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885. by Samuel Sullivan Cox
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies by United States. War Dept.
Call Number: Online - free - Making of America (Cornell)
War of the Rebellion Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies by United States. War Dept.
Call Number: View Online HathiTrust - Government Documents, Periodical (Non-circulating) W 45.5:

ISBN: 9780918678072

Publication Date: 1985-04-01
The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union by Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.; Belz, Herman.; Hayne, Robert Young, 1791-1839.
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection E381 .W3717 2000

ISBN: 0865972729

Publication Date: 2000-04-01

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