Website: U.S. Civil War: Find Books

E-Book Collections

Some of these collections contain free full-text access to titles out of copyright.

ACLS Humanities E-Book This link opens in a new window
Full-text of over 2,000 scholarly books in history and the humanities. Centre College users only.

EBSCO eBook Collection
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EBSCO eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) is a library of electronic books on many academic subjects. The collection includes thousands of titles purchased by Centre, plus thousands of public-domain e-books. Users can preview an e-book online, peruse a page, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or use links in the Table of Content or Index to go directly to specific chapters of interest. Every word in every book is searchable.
HathiTrust
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HathiTrust is a shared digital repository created by major research libraries. It offers searching of the full text of books and full access to works in the public domain.

Most history books Grace Doherty Library owns on the United States Civil War can be found in the following Call Numbers:E 423-655

Use the online catalog to locate books and multimedia in the Centre College library. You can search by author, title, keyword, or subject.

SUBJECT searching requires use of Library of Congress subject headings. Here are some example subject headings:: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women; Confederate States of America; Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 (for states)