AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE CIVIL WAR:
Black History Month 2011
Suggested Research Sources
SELECTED BOOKS in the ODU Library
Blight, David W. Beyond the battlefield: race, memory & the American Civil War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c2002. E468.9 .B57 2002.
Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass' Civil War: keeping faith in jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1989. E449.D75 B55 1989.
Blight, David W. Race and reunion: the Civil War in American memory. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. E468.9 .B58 2001.
Blight, David W. A slave no more: two men who escaped to freedom: including their own narratives of emancipation. Orlando: Harcourt, c2007. E450.W325 B58 2007.
Foner, Eric. Forever free: the story of emancipation and Reconstruction. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. E668.F655 2005.
Forbes, Ella. African American women during the Civil War / Ella Forbes. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. E540.N3 F67 1998.
Frankel, Noralee. Freedom's women: Black women and families in Civil War era Mississippi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1999. E185.93.M6 F73 1999.
Jenkins, Wilbert L. Climbing up to glory: a short history of African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2002. E185.2 .J46 2002.
McPherson, James M. The Negro's Civil War: how American Negroes felt and acted during the war for the Union. New York: Pantheon Books,  E540.N3 M25.
Mushkat, Jerome, ed. A citizen-soldier's Civil War: the letters of Brevet Major General Alvin C. Voris. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c2002. E525.5 67th .V67 2002.
Newby-Alexander, Cassandra. An African American history of the Civil War in Hampton Roads. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2010. F232.H23 N49 2010.
Nolen, Claude H. African American southerners in slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c2001. E185.6 .N83 2001.
Nudelman, Franny. John Brown's body: slavery, violence, & the culture of war. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2004. E468.9 .N84 2004.
Shifflett, Crandall, ed. John Washington's Civil War: a slave narrative. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c2008. E450.W325 A3 2008.
Ward, Andrew. The slaves' war: the Civil War in the words of former….. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. E464.W29 2008.
Wesley, Charles H. and Patricia W. Romero. Negro Americans in the Civil War; from slavery to citizenship. New York, Publishers Co.  E540.N3W4 1968.
Westwood, Howard C. Black troops, white commanders, and freedmen during the Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c1992. E540.N3 W47 1992.
Williams, George Washington. A history of the Negro troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865; preceded by a review of the military services of Negroes in ancient and modern times. Bergman Publishers . E540.N3W7 1968.
Yacovone, Donald, ed. Freedom's journey: African American voices of the Civil. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, c2004. E540.N3 F73 2004.
DATABASES at ODU
- African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
- Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
- HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction
Other Primary Source Materials:
- PBS: The Civil War. Ken Burns
African Americans in the Civil War. National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
The Civil War. African American Odyssey. American Memory. Library of Congress.
Photographs of African Americans During the Civil War: A List of Images in the Civil War Photograph Collection. American Memory. Library of Congress.
Civil War. PBS: Africans in America.
African American Soldiers. PBS: The Time of the Lincolns.
Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor. Stanford University.
African American Civil War Soldiers: Research Links. Princeton University
Photos of the Perry Library 2nd floor table exhibit.
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