Resources for HIUS 401H: Virginia's Civil War

1. Master list of Civil War resources in microform and on the web, which includes the following:

• HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS and JOURNALS
  
  List of 1860-1865 UVA holdings of Virginia newspapers in microform, by state.
  
  See also Virginia Newspapers 1821-1935: A Bibliography with Historical Introduction and Notes Also known as "Cappon", the name of the author. This book is the standard reference source for Virginia newspapers of this period. Located in Periodicals/Microforms Room, Call number Z 6952.V8C24, behind the public service desk. Another copy is available in Alderman Reference.
  
  Searchable full-text of The Richmond Enquirer and The New York Times (Proquest Historical Newspapers)
  
  American Periodicals Series Online1740-1900: full-text journals for this period, including Old Guard, Danville Quarterly Review, Southern Literary Messenger, and Southern Historical Society.
  
  
• CIVIL WAR WEBSITES: websites with links to full-text primary documents.

2. U.S. Census Resources

• UVA Geostat's interactive Historical Census Browser 1790-1960
  
  Find information and produce tables for individual census years, or over a number of years, for the entire U.S. or for individual states (down to the county level.) Data categories include General Population, Ethnicity/Race/Place of Birth, Slave Population, Economy/Manufacturing/Employment, Agriculture, and Education & Literacy.
  
  See also the pdf files of the1860 Census of Population and Housing from the U.S. Census Department. These include Agriculture of the United States and Manufactures of the United States. See Table of Contents in each for Virginia data.
  
  See also the Guide to Nonpopulation Census Schedules for Virginia, 1850-1880
  The microfilm reels (Micfilm 1883) associated with this guide are located in the Government Documents Reading Room.
  
  
• For historical background on the decennial census see the Bureau of the Census' Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses from 1790 to 2000. See also this overview.
  
  
• The Evolution of the U. S. Economic Census: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries shows how the economic census has changed to reflect growing industrialization and the spread of communications in the United States since the early 19th century.
  
  
• For the excellent overviews that begin each chapter, see the two volume set, Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970, on Post 10 in the Government Documents Reading Room or in the Alderman Ready Reference section. No state level information here.
  

3. Library of Virginia Resources

• See Library of Virginia Collections website for state records and newspapers that we don't have as well as county court records on microfilm, many of which can be obtained through UVA's Interlibrary Services.
  
  
• See Library of Virginia's searchable historical newspaper database to find materials not held at UVA. See also their database of titles cataloged by county or city. (no holdings dates here.)

4. Search VIRGO for manuscripts: under Virgo Search Options on any VIRGO screen click on Manuscript

5. CONTACT US

• Microforms/Government Documents Reference