An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia - Resources - Virginia Historical Society

Resources

Audio and Video

Listen to or watch Civil War-related lectures online:

"Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War"
By Douglas R. Egerton
Length: 1:00:16 | Go to lecture

"American City, Southern Place: Richmond on the Eve of War"
By Gregg Kimball
Length: 58:07 | Go to lecture

"The Diary of a Public Man and Abraham Lincoln"
By Daniel Crofts
Length: 55:29 | Go to lecture

"The Real Lost Cause: The Idea of Union in the Memory of the Civil War"
By Gary W. Gallagher
Length: 1:00:19 | Go to lecture

"Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership"
By Noah Andre Trudeau
Length: 0:53:45 | Go to lecture

"'So Ends This Day': An Illustrated Update on the Life and Times of the USS Monitor, from 1861 to yesterday"
By Anna Gibson Holloway
Length: 1:06:55 | Go to lecture

"Lincoln: President-Elect"
By Harold Holzer
Length: 0:42:57 | Go to lecture

"Moses Ezekiel: Civil War Soldier, Renowned Sculptor"
By Keith Gibson
Length: 0:36:30 | Go to lecture

"Lee and the Historians in the Age of the Anti-Hero"
By Robert K. Krick
Length: 0:36:03 | Go to lecture

"General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse"
By Joseph T. Glatthaar
Length: 0:51:58 | Go to lecture

"George Thomas: Virginian for the Union"
By Christopher J. Einolf
Length: 0:44:13 | Go to lecture

"Who Looks at Lee Must Think of Washington"
By Robert S. Tilton
Length: 0:53:00 | Go to lecture

"Lee and Grant"
By William M. S. Rasmussen
Length: 1:04:49 | Go to lecture

"Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters"
By Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Length: 0:39:55 | Go to lecture

Research

Anyone conducting research on the Civil War in Virginia is faced with a daunting task. Thousands of books have been written about America's bloodiest war, and many of those focus entirely, or at least in part, on the war in Virginia. Studies on the economic, military, social, and political effects of the Civil War fill the shelves of bookstores and libraries across the country. Biographies of major military and political leaders also account for a large portion of the Civil War library.
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