ProQuest Civil War Era

ProQuest Civil War Era contains digitized archival materials documenting the time leading up to and during the United States Civil War. It includes over 2,000 pamphlets from two major collections:

• Slavery and Anti-Slavery Pamphlets from the Libraries of Salmon P. Chase & John P. Hale: includes 166 pamphlets, speeches, reports, legal opinions, and convention proceedings covering slavery, and anti-slavery (abolitionist) movements, and the conditions of faced by African-Americans after the Civil War
• Civil War Pamphlets 1861-1865: Includes 1,758 pamphlets illustrating the war of words during the conflict. These pamphlets provide a broad ranging view of the issues and attitudes that led to the war and its impact on American society. Included in the collection are biographies, campaign literature, government documents, journals, presidential addresses, sermons, and speeches.

It also contains complete runs of eight newspaper titles, including:

• Southern Titles: Richmond Dispatch (Virginia), Charleston Mercury (South Carolina), New Orleans Times Picayune (Louisiana)
• Northern Titles: Boston Herald, New York Herald, Columbus State Journal (Ohio)
• Border State/Mississippi Valley Titles: The Kentucky Daily Journal, Memphis Daily Appeal

ProQuest Civil War Era may be cross-searched with other history databases in ProQuest One History.