Sources in U.S. History Online: The Civil War

Gale offers more than 450 relevant primary source documents from a time when America bled blue and gray. Sources in U.S. History Online: The Civil War marks a period when friends were enemies and the United States was torn in half. Professor Paul Finkelman (Albany Law School) has crafted an archive that offers in-depth Insight into military, diplomatic, cultural and legal history, as well as special areas of study including Southern, African American, medical history, the history of technology and more. Gale presents readers with a rare chance to learn first hand what life was like when the violent divide between north and south threatened to destroy the country.

Sources in U.S. History Online is a thematically organized collection providing information surrounding important individuals, influential perspectives, religion, political operations and warfare from major eras that shaped the United States. Discover history through:

• Maps
• Memoirs & Diaries
• Records
• Songs
• Photographs
• Legal treatises
• And more

Gale's award-winning digital archive platform allows for:

• Advance search delimiters
• Flexible document navigation
• Exportable search records
• MARC lists and citations
• Industry-leading optical character recognition results
• Hit-term highlighting
• Specialty metadata