NUCMC and the Documentary Heritage of the Civil War - 2013
This Web presentation is part of a five year/five part effort to highlight program cataloging of the last quarter century, along with related visual content, in observance of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.
Part 3 (2013: "Make Way for Liberty!": The sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation and the African American experience from slavery to the end of the war)
African American participation in the War, letters from emancipated slaves, the Underground Railroad, ...
- The Major collection of letters from Liberia, 1830-1854 and 1994 (McLean County Museum of History, Bloomington, Ill.)
- Jones family collection, 1838-(ongoing) (Smith Library of Regional History, Oxford, Ohio)
- Samuel Pannill Wilson papers, 1847-1938 (University of Virginia)
- Rhode Island U.S. Colored Artillery (Heavy) 11th Regiment collection, 1853-1913 (Providence College, Phillips Memorial Library)
- Edward Rosewater diaries, 1860-1865 (American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio)
- Major Alexander H. Johnson papers, 1861-1865 (Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, Mass.)
- Philip Lutes collection, 1862-1863 (Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, Ohio)
- Lawrence Van Alstyne's Diary of an Enlisted Man, 1862-1864 (Sharon Historical Society, Sharon, Conn.)
- Edward W. Kinsley papers, 1862-1865 (Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Washington, D.C.)
- Frederick Douglass papers, 1790-1943 (Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Washington, D.C.)
- Civil War letter of Francis Van Dresar, 1863 Aug. 23 (Pearce Museum at Navarro College, Corsicana, Tex.)
- John Dipper papers, 1816-1836 (New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, N.J.)
- Samuel M. Bowman letterbook, 1864 Feb.-Dec. (Historical Society of Delaware, Wilmington, Del.)
- Isaac M. Dwight family papers, 1837-1860 (South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, S.C.)
- Peter Still papers, 1850-1875 (Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, N.J.)
- Samuel B. Jones papers, 1863-1909 (Historic New Orleans Collection, La.)
- Rachel Gilpin Robinson letters, 1820-1862 (Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, Vt.; housed at the Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, Vt.)
- Ex-slave enlistment agreements, 1863 (Arkansas History Commission, Little Rock, Ark.)
- Stibbs family papers, 1819-1975 (Tulane University, New Orleans, La.)
- Slave documents collection, 1821-1860 [1862] (Bowie State University)
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