11th History: Civil War Historical Fiction: Reference Sources

Please check the cart of books first. If you aren't able to find what you need, check the library catalog.

• The Hathi Trust is a free, searchable catalog of digital books from university libraries, most of which are in the public domain.

• Google Books searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned. Look for books with previews or historical books in the public domain.

• Open Library (Internet Archive) Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Books are available to one borrower at a time using controlled digital lending.

The following are excellent History specific databases:

Citing in NOODLETOOLS: ABC-CLIO - use Database>original content. For use Infobase use Database>book

Gale includes a variety of subject. You can also go directly to the Civil War Topic Page below:

You will find scholarly references in JSTOR 

*Remember* - if you're off campus, click on the green banner above to locate the database passwords on the Library page on the Cooper website.