Essential Civil War Curriculum | Dorothy Denneen Volo and James M. Volo, The Antebellum Period | January 2014
The Antebellum Period
By Dorothy Denneen Volo and James M. Volo
Resources
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Author
Volo, James M. and Dorothy Denneen
Volo
Title. City: Publisher, Year.
The Antebellum Period. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 2004.
Books
Author
Adams, Alice Dana
Beecher, Catherine E.
Berry, Harrison
Blassingame, John W.
———.
Bowman, John S., ed.
Burrowes, Thomas H.
Campbell, Edward D.C. Jr., and Kym S.
Rice, eds.
Child, Lydia M.
Title. City: Publisher, Year.
The Neglected Period of Anti-slavery in
America. Boston: Corner House, 1973.
Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book. New
York: Harper & Brothers, 1850.
Slavery and Abolitionism, as Viewed by a
Georgia Slave. Atlanta: M. Lynch, 1861.
Black New Orleans. Chicago: Chicago
University Press, 1973.
The Clarion Voice. Washington: National
Parks Service, 1976.
The Civil War Almanac. New York: Bison
Books, 1983.
Report of the Superintendent of Common
Schools of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: A.
Boyd Hamilton, 1861.
A Woman's War: Southern Women, Civil
War and the Confederate Legacy.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia,
1996.
The Mother's Book. Boston: Applewood,
1831.
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Clinton, Catherine
Cremin, Lawrence A.
DeRosa, Marshall L.
Douglass, Frederick
Dowdey, Clifford
East, Charles, ed.
Faust, Drew Gilpin
———.
Fehrenbacher, Don E.
Fite, Emerson David
Freehling, William E.
Gwin, Minrose C., ed.
Hague, Parthenia Antoinette
The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in
the Old South. New York: Pantheon Books,
1982.
American Education: The National
Experience, 1783-1876. New York: Harper,
1980.
The Confederate Constitution of 1861.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press,
1991.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
An American Slave, Written by Himself.
Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office,
No. 25 Cornhill, 1845.
The Great Plantation. Charles City, VA:
Berkeley Plantation Press, 1957.
Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a
Southern Woman. New York: Touchstone,
1991.
The Creation of Confederate Nationalism:
Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1988.
Mothers of Invention: Women of the
Slaveholding South in the American Civil
War. Charlotte: University of North Carolina
Press, 1996.
The Era of Expansion, 1800-1848. New
York: John Wiley & Sons, 1969.
Social and Industrial Conditions in the North
During the Civil War. Williamstown: Corner
House, 1976.
The South vs. The South: How AntiConfederate Southerners Shaped the Course
of the Civil War. New York; Oxford
University Press, 2001.
Cornelia Peake McDonald: A Woman's Civil
War. A Diary with Reminiscences of the War
from March 1862. Madison: University of
Wisconsin, 1992.
A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern
Alabama During the Civil War. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1888.
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Halliman, Tim
Handlin, Oscar, and Lilian Handlin
Hawes, Joel
Kaser, David
Kennedy, James R., and Walter D.
Kennedy
Kunitz, Stanley J., ed.
Laas, Virginia Jeans, ed.
Leech, Margaret
Livermore, Mary A.
Lunt, Dolly Sumner
Massey, Mary Elizabeth
McGuire, Judith W.
Miers, Earl Schenck, ed.
Morgan, James
Moskow, Shirley Blotnick
Rice, V. M.
Richards, Caroline C.
Rose, Anne C.
A Christmas Carol Christmas Book. New
York: IBM, 1984.
Liberty and Expansion, 1760-1850. New
York: Harper & Row, 1989.
Lectures to Young Men on the Formation of
Character. Hartford: 1835.
Books and Libraries in Camp and Battle:
The Civil War Experience. Westport:
Greenwood Press, 1984.
The South Was Right. Gretna, LA: Pelican,
1995.
British Authors of the Nineteenth Century.
New York: Wilson, 1936.
Wartime Washington: Letters of Elizabeth
Blair Lee. Chicago: University of Illinois
Press, 1991.
Reveille in Washington. New York: Harper
& Brothers, 1941.
My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative
of Four Years' Personal Experience. New
York: Da Capo Press, 1995.
A Woman's Wartime Journal. Atlanta:
Cherokee, 1994.
Women in the Civil War. Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 1966.
Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War
by a Lady of Virginia. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1995.
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, by John B.
Jones, 1861-1865. New York: Sagamore
Press, 1958.
"Send No Trash: Books, Libraries, and
Reading During the Civil War." Camp Chase
Gazette, July 1992, 32.
Emma's World: An Intimate Look at Lives
Touched by the Civil War Era. Far Hills, NJ:
New Horizon Press, 1990.
Code of Public Instruction. Albany: State
Printing Office, 1856.
Village Life in America, 1852-1872.
Gansevoort, NY: Corner House, 1997.
Victorian America and the Civil War.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1994.
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Rothman, David J.
Sewell, Richard H.
Stampp, Kenneth M.
———.
Strother, Horatio T.
Sullivan, Walter
Taylor, Alan
Thomas, Emory M.
Tosh, John
Volo, Dorothy Denneen, and James M.
Volo
Volo, James M. and Dorothy Denneen
Volo
———.
Volo, James M.
Weld, Theodore
Woodward, C. Vann
"Our Brother's Keepers." American Heritage,
December 1972.
A House Divided: Sectionalism and the Civil
War, 1848-1865. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1988.
The Peculiar Institution. New York: Vintage,
1956.
The Imperiled Union. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1980.
The Underground Railroad in Connecticut.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press,
1962.
The War the Women Lived: Female Voices
from the Confederate South. Nashville: J. S.
Sanders, 1995.
"Fenimore Cooper's America," History
Today 46, no. 2 (February 1996).
The Confederacy as a Revolutionary
Experience. Columbia: University of South
Carolina Press, 1991.
"New Men? The Bourgeois Cult of Home."
History Today 46 (December 1996).
Encyclopedia of the Antebellum South.
Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000. Kindle
edition available.
Daily Life in Civil War America. Westport:
Greenwood Press, 1998; 2010. Kindle
edition available.
The Antebellum Period. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 2004.
Soldiers of the Press, Civil War Journalism,
1861-1865. Create Space Independent
Publishing, 2013. Kindle edition available.
American Slavery as It Is. New York: 1839.
Mary Chesnut's Civil War. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1981.
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