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Civil War Internet Resources

Websites : Reform Movements

HistoryNet
National Expansion & Reform, 1815-1860
THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY
Conditions of antebellum slavery 1830 - 1860
WGBH Africans in America
Declaration of Independence: "All men are created equal"

Print Books: American Reformers

Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass by Russell Freedman
Call Number: 920 FRE
ISBN: 0547385625
Publication Date: 2012-06-19
Louisa May Alcott by Amy Ruth
Call Number: B ALCOTT
ISBN: 0822549387
Publication Date: 1998-06-01
American Transcendentalism by Philip F. Gura
Call Number: 810.9 GUR
ISBN: 9780809016440
Publication Date: 2008-09-02
John Brown by Anne E. Schraff
Call Number: B BROWN
ISBN: 9780766033559
Publication Date: 2010-04-01
Frederick Douglass by David A. Adler
Call Number: B Douglass
ISBN: 9780823420568
Publication Date: 2010-02-15
Frederick Douglass by Michael A. Schuman
Call Number: B Douglass
ISBN: 9780766030251
Publication Date: 2009-05-01
Leaders of Women's Suffrage by Liza N. Burby
Call Number: 923.72 Dum
ISBN: 156006367X
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
Sojourner Truth by W. Terry Whalin
Call Number: B Truth
ISBN: 0791050343
Publication Date: 1998-05-01
Lucretia Mott by Katie Marsico; Margaret H. Bacon (Consultant Editor)
Call Number: B Mott
ISBN: 9781604530391
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Harriet Beecher Stowe by Suzanne M. Coil
Call Number: B Stowe
ISBN: 0531130061
Publication Date: 1993-09-01
Joseph Smith by Richard Lyman Bushman; Jed Woodworth (As told to)
Call Number: B SMITH
ISBN: 1400042704
Publication Date: 2005-09-27
Harriet Tubman by R. Conrad Stein
Call Number: B Tubman
ISBN: 9780766034815
Publication Date: 2010-04-01
Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent by Thomas B. Allen; Carla Bauer (Illustrator)
Call Number: B TUBMAN
ISBN: 0792278895
Publication Date: 2006-10-10
A Volcano Beneath the Snow by Albert Marrin
Call Number: B BROWN
ISBN: 9780307981523
Publication Date: 2014-04-08
Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Cynthia Salisbury
Call Number: B STANTON
ISBN: 0766016161
Publication Date: 2002-02-01
Utopian Communities in America, 1680-1880 by Mark Holloway
Call Number: 335 GOL
ISBN: 9780486215938
Publication Date: 2011-11-17
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Call Number: 818.308 THO
ISBN: 0743487729
Publication Date: 2004-07-01
The Prohibition Era by Louise Chipley Slavicek
Call Number: 363.4 Sla
ISBN: 9781604130058
Publication Date: 2008-10-01

Websites : 20th Century Innovation

Print Books: Inventions

The Invention of the Silicon Chip by Windsor Chorlton (Editor, Contribution by)
Call Number: 609 CHO
ISBN: 1588105547
Publication Date: 2002-03-01
The Invention of the Moving Assembly Line by Dennis Abrams
Call Number: 670.42 Abr
ISBN: 9781604137729
Publication Date: 2011-08-01
Artificial Intelligence by Henderson; Harry
Call Number: 006.3 HEN
ISBN: 0816057494
Publication Date: 2007-04-01
Concise History of Science and Invention by U. S. National Geographic Society Staff
Call Number: 509 CON
ISBN: 1426205449
Publication Date: 2009-10-27
Inventing Modern America by David E. Brown; Lester C. Thurow (Other Primary Creator); James Burke (Other Primary Creator)
Call Number: 609.73 Bro
ISBN: 0262025086
Publication Date: 2001-11-01
Really Useful by Joel Levy
Call Number: 608 Lev
ISBN: 1552976238
Publication Date: 2002-10-05
The Light Bulb by Joseph Wallace; Toby Welles (Illustrator)
Call Number: 621.32 WAL
ISBN: 0689828160
Publication Date: 1999-09-01
Television by Steven Otfinoski
Call Number: 621.388 OTF
ISBN: 9780761422280
Publication Date: 2006-09-01
Weapons by Jason Richie
Call Number: 623 RIC
ISBN: 1881508609
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Land and Water Transportation by Tom Jackson
Call Number: 629.04 Lan
ISBN: 9781936333424
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Military and Security by Tom Jackson
Call Number: 629.1 Air
ISBN: 9781936333400
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
The Airplane by Harold Faber
Call Number: 629.133 FAB
ISBN: 9780761418764
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
The Automobile by James Lincoln Collier
Call Number: 629.222 COL
ISBN: 9780761418771
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
The History of Rockets by Ron Miller
Call Number: 629.43 MIL
ISBN: 0531114309
Publication Date: 1999-03-01
Modern Robotics by Harry Henderson
Call Number: 629.8 HEN
ISBN: 0816057451
Publication Date: 2006-08-01
Power and Energy by Tom Jackson
Call Number: 621.042 Pow
ISBN: 9781936333394
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Buildings and Structures by Tom Jackson
Call Number: 610 Med
ISBN: 9781936333387
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Buildings and Structures by Tom Jackson
Call Number: 690 Bui
ISBN: 9781936333417
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
They Made America by Harold Evans; Gail Buckland; David Lefer
Call Number: 926 Eva
ISBN: 0316277665
Publication Date: 2004-10-12
The Technology of World War II by Sean Sheehan
Call Number: 940.54 SHE
ISBN: 073986064X
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
The Disney Version by Richard Schickel
Call Number: B DISNEY
ISBN: 1566631580
Publication Date: 1997-03-01
The Electric Light by Liz Sonneborn
Call Number: B EDISON
ISBN: 9780791093504
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
Escaping the Delta by Elijah Wald
Call Number: B JOHNSON
ISBN: 0060524235
Publication Date: 2004-01-06

Reference Books

Book of Inventions by Ian Harrison
Call Number: 609 HAR
ISBN: 0792282965
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
The Britannica Guide to Inventions That Changed the Modern World by Robert Curley (Editor)
Call Number: 609 BRI
ISBN: 1615300201
Publication Date: 2009-12-20
World of Invention by Kimberley A. McGrath (Editor); Bridget Travers (Editor)
Call Number: REF 609 WOR
ISBN: 0787627593
Publication Date: 1998-12-11