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*U.S. Civil War (1861-1865): Primary Sources: Background Sources (ASU Library)
Online Sources for Background Information
Below are online dictionaries and online encyclopedias which focus on the United States Civil War (1861-1865).
Online Dictionaries
Hunt, Roger D. Colonels in Blue: Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary. McFarland & Company, 2014. xi, 246 p.
Ebook Central [unlimited access]
Monroe, Dan and Bruce Tap. Shapers of the Great Debate on the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press, 2005. xxviii, 405 p.
Ebook Central [unlimited access]
Richter, William L. The A to Z of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Scarecrow Press, 2009. liv, 915 p.
Ebook Central [3 copies]
Richter, William L. Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction. 2nd ed. Scarecrow Press, 2012. xlvii, 983 p.
Ebook Central [unlimited access]
Ritter, Charles F. and Jon L. Wakelyn, eds. Leaders of the American Civil War: A Biographical and Historiographical Dictionary. Routledge, 2013. xxxiv, 465 p.
Ebook Central [unlimited access]
Online Encyclopedias
Barney, William L. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2011. 378 p.
Ebook Central [unlimited access]
Harper, Judith E. Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia. Routledge, 2004. xviii, 472 p.
Ebook Central [unlimited access]
Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R. The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine. Routledge, 2015. x p.
Ebook Central [unlimited access]
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. The Civil War Era and Reconstruction: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History. Routledge, 2015. 2 vols. xx, 749, I-85 p.
Ebook Central [unlimited access]
Wright, John D. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Civil War Era Biographies. Routledge, 2013. lxiii, 683 p.
Ebook Central [unlimited access]