Professor and Head of Research, Engagement and Scholarship
Library Resources
Booth Library has a large collection of learning resources to support the study of the Civil War by undergraduates, graduates and faculty. The materials are held in the reference collection, the main book holdings, the journal collection and the online full-text databases. Books and journal articles from other libraries may be obtained using interlibrary loan.
- Civil War and Reconstruction
Selected works on the American Civil War and Reconstruction found in EIU's Booth Library. This bibliography of several hundred works is organized into reference works, secondary sources (by theme) and primary sources (by theme)
Searching the EIU Library Catalog
Searching the EIU Library Catalog
To find books, ebooks, videos, and other materials held in the library use the EIU Library Catalog
To search the catalog enter your keywords in the search box and search "Library Catalog".
The search results may be narrowed by using the "Tweak your results" limiting tools on the right hand side of the page.
Click on the item title to bring up the detailed bibliographic record. The item's location, call number, and status are needed to find it in Booth Library.
Browsing for books on the Civil War
To find books on Civil War history, browse the shelves in these call numbers for the following subject areas:
E 415.6 Collected Works of American Statements
E 433 Slavery Question, 1853-1857
E 436-440.5 Buchanan’s Administration, 1857-1861
E 438 Slavery Question, 1857-1861
E 440.5 State of the Country, November 1860-March 4, 1861
E 441-453 Slavery in the United States, Antislavery Movements
E 456-459 Lincoln’s Administration, 1861- April 15, 1865.
E 456-655 Civil War Period, 1861-1865.
E 461-655 The Civil War, 1861-1865
E 482-489 Confederate States of America.
E 491-586 Armies, Troops
E 591-600 Naval History
E 660 Collected Works of American Statesmen
E 666-670 Johnson’s Administration, April 15, 1865-1869
E 668 Reconstruction, 1865-1877
E 671-680 Grant’s Administration, 1869-1877
