Your research paper should be an analytical and critical piece of writing examining the civil war.
You will need to do research into primary and secondary sources for this project. Primary sources are first person eyewitness documents, and often consist of letters, diaries, manuscripts, etc. I have compiled a long list of primary source digital archives which you can investigate for primary sources, (see below)
Digital Public Library of America
Shared Shelf Commons (consortium of universities digital projects-sscommons.org)
World Digital library (LOC)
250+Killer Digital Libraries and Archives (Open Education Database)
Internet Archive (archive.org)
Internet Archive WayBack Machine (History of webpages. It really is there forever! If it has been on the net, its here)
Hathitrust Digital Library
Library of Congress Digital Collections
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ (George Mason Univ.)
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ (Univ. of Houston)
CIVIL WAR
Civil War in the American South (Association of Southeastern Research Libraries Digitization Project)
Digital Library of Georgia (Virtual library for state of Georgia/Civil War/ Civil Rights /Land & Resources)
Southern Oral History Program (Documenting the American South at UNC)
The Valley of the Shadow (Civil War Primary Sources/Letters/Newspapers/Diaries & Other records)
The Peoples Contest: A Civil War Era Digital Archiving Project (CW Diaries/Paper collections)
Civil War Diaries and Letters Collections (Auburn)
Civil War Diaries and Letters (University of Iowa)
Modern Manuscript Collection/Civil War (Newberry Library)
The Crisis of Union: Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the U.S. Civil War (University of Pennsylvania)
Civil War Digital Collection (State Library of Pennsylvania)
Regimental Histories (State Library of Pennsylvania)
Alabama Civil War and Reconstruction Newspapers (Alabama Archives & History)
Alabama Textual Collections (Digital-Alabama Archives & History)
Wisconsin in the Civil War (Wisconsin Historical Society)
Hampton Roads Peace Conference Digital Collection (Auburn)
C.S.S. Alabama (Confederate raiding ship-Univ. of Alabama)
Female nurses during the Civil War (Nat. Museum of Civil War Medicine)
Searchable Official Records of the War of the Rebellion (The Ohio State Univ.)
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