• Books at WSU Libraries


• Books for Younger Readers at WSU Libraries


• Videos/DVDs at WSU Libraries


• Curriculum Resources for Teachers


• Web Resources
  
  

    Books at Wichita State University Libraries

Alonso, Harriet Hyman.  Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children. University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
Call Number: Special Collections 5485

Ayers, Carol Dark.  Lincoln and Kansas: Partnership for Freedom. Sunflower University Press, 2001.
Call Number: E457.4 .A97 2001

Berlin, Ira, et al.  Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Call Number: E185.2 .F882 1992

Blackett, R. J. M.  Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War. Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
Call Number: E469.8 .B66 2001

Blight, David W.  Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Belknap Press, 2001.
Call Number: E468.9 .B58 2001

Cox, Lawanda C. Fenlason.  Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership. University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
Call Number: E457.2 .C84

Donald, David Herbert.  Lincoln. Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Call Number: E457 .D66 1995

Douglass, Frederick. (Henry Louis Gates, ed.)  Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and American Slave/My Bondage and My Freedom/Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Library of America, 1994.
Call Number: E449 .D749 1994b

Douglas, Frederick. (William L. Andrews, ed.)  The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Call Number: E449 .D749 1996

Fehrenbacher, Don E.  Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850's. Stanford University Press, 1962.
Call Number: E457.3 .F4 1962

Fehrenbacher, Don E., with Ward M. McAfee.  The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Call Number: E446 .F45 2001

Foner, Eric.  Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Call Number: E436 .F6 1970

Franklin, John Hope.  The Emancipation Proclamation. Doubleday, 1963.
Call Number: E453 .F8

Goodwin, Doris Kearns.  Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Simon and Schuster, 2005.
Call Number: E457.45 .G66 2005

Guelzo, Allen C.  Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1999.
Call Number: E457.2 .G88 1999

Hollandsworth, James G.  The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War. Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
Call Number: E540.N3 H65 1995

Holzer, Harold.  Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President. Simon and Schuster, 2005.
Call Number: E440 .H65 2004

Jacobs, Harriet A.  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Penguin Books, 2000.
Call Number: E444.J17 A3 2000

Jaffa, Harry V.  Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Call Number: E457.4 .J32

Jaffa, Harry V.  A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
Call Number: E459 .J34 2000

Jeffrey, Julie Roy. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Call Number: E449 .J46 1998

Jones, Howard.  Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War. University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
Call Number: E469 .J56 1999

Klingaman, William K.  Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation. Penguin USA, 2002.
Call Number: E457.2 .K57 2001

Lowance, Mason I., Jr., ed.  Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader. Penguin USA, 2000.
Call Number: E449 .A29 2000

McPherson, James M.  Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1991.
Call Number: E457.2 .M4758 1991

McPherson, James M.  Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Oxford University Press, 1988.
Call Number: E173 .O94 v.6

Miller, William Lee.  Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress. Knopf, 1996.
Call Number: E338 .M65 1996

Miller, William Lee.  Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography. Vintage Books, 2003.
Call Number: E457.2 .M643 2002

Oates, Stephen B.  With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Perennial, 1994.
Call Number: E457 .O17

Paludan, Phillips S.  The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. University of Kansas Press, 1994.
Call Number: E457 .P18 1994

Peterson, Merrill D.  Lincoln in American Memory. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Call Number: E457.2 .N4 1994

Potter, David Morris, and Don E. Fehrenbacher.  The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. Harper & Row, 1976.
Call Number: E459 .P67 1976

Remini, Robert V.  Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union. W.W. Norton & Company, 1991.
Call Number: E340.C6 R46 1991

Sandburg, Carl.  Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War. Harcourt, 2003.
Call Number: E457 .S215

Swanson, James L.  Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer. Morrow, 2006.
Call Number: E457.5 .S993 2006

White, Ronald.  The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln through His Words. Random House, 2005.
Call Number: E457.2 .W6155 2005

White, Ronald.  Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural. Touchstone Books, 2003.
Call Number: E457.94 1865 .W55 2002

Williams, Frank J.  Judging Lincoln. Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.
Call Number: E457.2 .W69 2002

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   Books for Younger Readers at Wichita State University Libraries

Beatty, Patricia.  Jayhawker. Harper, 1995.
Call Number: PZ5 823 B371j3

Crane, Stephen.  The Red Badge of Courage. Heritage Press, 1944.
Call Number: PS1449.C85 R3

D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin.  Abraham Lincoln. Doubleday, 1939. (Caldecott Award Winner)
Call Number: PZ5 921 .L736A9

Freedman, Russell.  Lincoln: A Photobiography. Clarion Books, 1987. (Newberry Medal Winner)
Call Number: PZ5 921 L7368f7

Hamilton, Virginia.  Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom . Knopf, 1993 .
Call Number: PZ5 973.7 H2218m3

Harness, Cheryl.  Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington: 1837-1865. National Geographic Society, 1997
Call Number: PZ5 921 L736h2

Meltzer, Milton, ed.  Voices from the Civil War: A Documentary History of the Great American Conflict. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1989.
Call Number: PZ5 973.7 V8892

Monjo, F. N.  Me and Willie & Pa. Simon and Schuster, 1973.
Call Number: PZ5 921 .L736M5

Murphy, Jim.  The Boys War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War. Clarion Books, 1990.
Call Number: PZ5 973.7 M9783b6

North, Sterling.  Abe Lincoln, Log Cabin to White House. Landmark Books, Random House, 1993.
Call Number: PZ5 921 .L736N6

Randall, Ruth Painter.  Lincoln's Sons. Little, Brown, & Co., 1955.
Call Number: E457.25 .R26

Ray, Delia.  Behind the Blue and Gray: The Soldier's Life in the Civil War. Puffin, 1996.
Call Number: PZ5 973.7 R263b3

Sandburg, Carl.  Abe Lincoln Grows Up. Harvest Books, 1975.
Call Number: PZ5 921 .L736S2

Winters, Kay.  Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books. Simon and Schuster, 2003.
Call Number: PZ5 973.7 W78898a2

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    Videos/DVDs at Wichita State University Libraries

Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A Houde Divided (2001) This six part PBS program examines the Lincolns' family life and marriage, Abraham Lincoln's presidency, and the Civil War era. Directed by David Grubin.
Call Number: E457.25 .A27 2005

The Civil War (1990) This well-known PBS series by Ken Burns traces the course of the Civil War from the abolitionist movement through all the major battles to the death of President Lincoln and the beginnings of Reconstruction.
Call Number: E468 .C62 1990

The Andersonville Trial (1970) Explores the moral dilemma of responsibility for the prison camp in Andersonville, Ga., where 14,000 Union soldiers lost their lives during the Civil War. Directed by George C. Scott.
Call Number: PN1995.9.C5152 A53 2003

Mandate: The President and the People, Part 2: President Lincoln and the Civil War (2006) Examines the relationship between the presidency, mass media, and public opinion.
Call Number: JK516 .M34 2006

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (2002) Mary Todd Lincoln comes alive in all her complexity and controversy from the early years after the assassination of President Lincoln to her shocking and tragic decline. Directed by George Schaefer.
Call Number: PS3566.R56 L3 2002

Racial Inequality: Remnants of a Troubled Time (2005) Investigate the United States history of slavery and the long fight for justice and equal rights in this country.
Call Number: E185 .R33 2005

Touched by Fire: Bleeding Kansas (2005) The Battle of Black Jack, the massacre along Pottawatomie Creek, territorial elections, and John Brown’s hanging following the Harpers Ferry raid are among scenes portrayed by local re-enactors. Written and Produced by Jon Goering and Ken Spurgeon. Directed by Nathan King Miller.
Call Number: PN1995.9.C5152 T68 2005

When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate (2003) A musical celebration of the joy and survival of black music, song and poetry since the days of the Civil War. Includes the poetry of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and many others. Directed by Vinnette Carroll & Emile Ardolino.
Call Number: PN2270.A35 W44 2003

Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (1998) Considers the contradictions that lay at the heart of the founding of the American nation and portrays the struggles of the African people in America, from their arrival in the 1600s to the last days before the Civil War. Directed by Orlando Bagwell & Susan Bellows
Call Number: E441 .A37 1998

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   Web Resources

• General

Abraham Lincoln Online
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln.html
A comprehensive web site with a daily Lincoln quotation, latest Lincoln news and events, book lists; speeches, Lincoln museums and libraries across the country, and resources for teachers and students.

Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html

Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
http://www.hti.umich.edu/l/lincoln
Sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Association

Abraham Lincoln Association
http://www.alincolnassoc.com

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867
http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen
Part of the University of Maryland's "Freedmen and Southern Society Project"

• Lincoln and the Bicentennial

The Lincoln Bicentennial
http://www.lincolnbicentennial.gov/about/resources.php
The resources area of the main Bicentennial web site, which includes helpful web sites, and information and resources about all Bicentennial related activities and events.

The Complete Lincoln Links
http://abepress.com/contact.html
A master list of 34 other web sites related to Lincoln and his era.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
http://www.alplm.org/home.html
Located in Springfield, Illinois.

Abraham Lincoln Historic Photograph Archive
http://www.abrahamlincolnartgallery.com/archivephoto.htm
An archive collection of 35 famous historical Abraham Lincoln photographs.

The Lincoln Forum
http://www.thelincolnforum.org
Dedicated to enhancing understanding of Lincoln and the Civil War

Association of Lincoln Presenters
http://www.lincolnpresenters.org
Web site for 200 Abraham Lincoln impersonators from across the U.S., with contact information.

• Slavery and Abolition

Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/shtml/sthome.html
A Library of Congress collection which contains over a hundred pamplets about books concerning the experiences of African and African-American slaves in the U.S.

Frederick Douglass
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Portraits/douglass.html
Web site at Keele University with links to many online Douglass documents.

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
http;//xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html

Frederick Douglass Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html
Papers at the Library of Congress

From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html
Presents 397 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library on Congress.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives fro the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1938
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.

• The Civil War

American Civil War Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war
A comprehensive Civil War web site.

The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/cwi

Selected Civil War Photographs
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
From the Library of Congress. Search on "Abraham Lincoln" for photos of Lincoln himself and photos related to him.

American Civil War
http://americancivilwar.com
Contains statistics, maps, biographies, battle descriptions, and much more about the war.

• American Culture and History in the Civil War Era

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/index.html
Has a wide-ranging web ste with much material on 19th century culture and the Civil War.

University of Virginia "Valley of the Shadow Project"
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/choosepart.html
Takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experiences of the Civil War. The project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, VA, and Franklin County, PA.

From Quackery to Bacteriology: The Emergence of Modern Medicine in 19th Century America
http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/quackery/quack-index.html
Includes sections on Civil War medicine.

19th Century Recipe Web Sites
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Barracks/1369/recipes.html
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Barracks/1369/more_recipes.html
Include recipes for hardtack, Johnny cakes, rabbit soup, and home medicinal remedies taken from cook books of the era.

Nineteenth Century American Children
http://www.merrycoz.org/kids.htm

"We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html
From the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana at the Library of Congress. Includes more than 200 sheet-music compositions that represent Lincoln and the war as reflected in populat music.

The Time of the Lincolns
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/index.html
Web site for the PBS series

Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html
Comprehensive web site from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academy Affairs Library. Contains slave narratives, documents by Frederck Douglass, documents from The Southern Homefront 1861-1865, and many others.

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