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Civil War-era Digital Collections at the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress Digital Collections contain vast holdings from the Civil War-era. This Research Guide provides links to numerous digital collections at the LOC organized by subjects.

Literature Collections of the Civil War-era

This section contains links to curated collections of Civil War-era materials. These include collections donated to the Library of Congress by private collectors and digital collections curated by the Library of Congress.

 

African American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/african-american-perspectives-rare-books/about-this-collection/

The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana: https://www.loc.gov/collections/alfred-whital-stern-lincolniana/about-this-collection/

American Civil War Sesquicentennial Web Archive: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/american-civil-war-sesquicentennial-web-archive/about-this-collection/

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/

Chronicling America Newspaper Collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/about-this-collection/

Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847 to 1874: https://www.loc.gov/collections/frederick-douglass-newspapers/about-this-collection/

Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana: https://www.loc.gov/collections/herndon-weik-collection-of-lincolniana/about-this-collection/

Printed Ephemera: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/broadsides-and-other-printed-ephemera/about-this-collection/

Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman Papers: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/harned-whitman-collection/about-this-collection/

Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/voices-remembering-slavery/about-this-collection/

Walt Whitman Papers (Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection): 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/walt-whitman-papers-mmc/about-this-collection/

Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/feinberg-whitman/about-this-collection/