Civil War-Free Access

Open Access Is Back By Popular Demand

Due to the many trial requests and wonderful feedback we received in April, Alexander Street Press is once again allowing open access to The American Civil War Online, our comprehensive series of online Civil War collections. Through June 30th you can enjoy free access to these popular resources.

New to this series is Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera. As soon as it is launched, open access to the beta-version will be granted. Check back here in the next few days for updates on this exciting new collection.

Use the links below to begin exploring now. When prompted to login, use the following credentials:

username: american
password: bicentennial

Please note that we do not provide online access to individuals and we cannot respond to individual inquiries. If you are an individual researcher or student and would like to have permanent access to these collections, please check with your public library or university to see if they are subscribers. If your library is not a current subscriber, let them know you would like them to consider making these collections available. Please direct your library to www.alexanderstreet.com for more information.

The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries

This extraordinary electronic collection includes 100,000 pages, including 4,000 pages of previously unpublished material. Written by the famous as well as the unknown, the database gives both the Northern and the Southern perspectives, along with that of foreign observers.

"The Civil War is a constant topic of interest and the combination of this interest with easy access to primary sources makes this a valuable resource for academic collections....Highly recommended." - Ed Tallent, Library Journal

The American Civil War Research Database

The definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War, with indexed, searchable information on 4.3 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. It contains all of the more than 4,600 known regimental rosters, 3,461 regimental chronicles, and 1,010 officer profiles.

Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines

The collection contains 65,000 pages drawn from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers, most of them illustrated—3,720 issues published from 1860 to 1865. Originally printed in 16 different cities, many of the publications are now rare and hard to find, with an item sometimes extant only in a single archive.

Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera

Search, browse, and retrieve 70,000 contemporaneous photographs, along with nearly 30,000 highly graphical wartime recruiting posters, envelopes, and ephemera. These dramatic images present a historical account of the war—and a view of nineteenth-century America more broadly—from social, military, and political perspectives.

"It's everything a genealogist wants to know about the Civil War; who the soldiers were, what battles their regiments fought in . . . and who was writing about the whole affair. . . . These databases are the best repository for Civil War information I've come across." - Kathy Jones-Kristof, genealogyhelpandhints.com

Use the links below to learn more about Music Online, Alexander Street Literature, and other collections from Alexander Street Press.

Social and Cultural History
Music
Literature
Religion
Performing Arts, Drama, & Film
Psychology
Sociology

Congratulations to the Traverse Area District Library, winners of a free subscription to
The American Civil War Research Database.

If you are a library or faculty at a college or university, please contact marketing@alexanderstreet.com with any questions or problems.

If you are an individual researcher or student, please contact your library directly.