History @ CUL

Announcing One Week Trial to Proquest Civil War Era Digital Collection

image from Library of Congress Civil War Photograph Collection. City Point, Virginia, ca. 1865.

 

Format: Abstract and index, full text, full image, Text+Graphics
Media: Electronic/Online
Coverage: 1840-1865
Total Sources Covered: 8 newspapers, 2000 pamphlets

ProQuest Civil War Era covers a range of topics including the formative economic factors and other forces that led to the abolitionist movement, the 600,000 battle casualties, and the emancipation of nearly 4 million slaves. It combines continuous runs of regional newspapers, as well as pamphlets covering a wide range of topics.

Newspaper and pamphlet sources–never before available online: Researchers will get the full story from nearly 2,000 pamphlets and complete runs of eight newspaper titles, covering 1840-1865, that were specifically selected for the regional and diverse perspectives they offer.  The pamphlets expand on individual perspectives of government officials, clergy, social reformists, and others.  Newspapers are a perfect complement to these sources offering insights on a broader range of events.  The newspapers included in Civil War Era provide a variety of editorial perspectives reflecting different regions and political orientations.

Newspaper Sources (1840-1865): ProQuest Civil War Era allows researchers to follow the development of issues leading to the Civil War as recorded in the papers of the South, North, Mississippi Valley, and Border States.  Many interrelated forces influenced the course of events during this 25-year period, and Civil War Era allows serious researchers to discover the details.

–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

Pamphlets from two important 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 movements, and the conditions of 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.

Pamphlets (often 20-40 pages treatises) were the op-ed pieces of their day.  They provided an outlet for individuals to express their views through an alternative channel.  These respected pamphlet collections are a perfect complement to the variety of editorial perspectives included in the newspapers.

 

We have a trial to this digital collection from 12-DEC-2013  to 20-DEC-2013.

You can access your trial product(s) using this web address:

 https://www.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&trialBean.token=XLJGLU89Z7UL9U1RZHF0

The trial product(s) can also be accessed from within our existing ProQuest subscription. This means that as long as our trial product(s) are available in the new platform, they can appear in our database list and can be cross-searched with our currently subscribed products. A list of products that are available in the new platform is available here: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/promos/platform/databases_supported.shtml.

Comments and feedback are welcome and can be sent to Virginia Cole (vac11), Cornell Library History Selector.

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