{"id":1614,"date":"2017-12-11T11:07:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2017-12-11T11:07:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:07:53","slug":"looking-for-primary-source-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Primary Source Material?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two new exciting resources available for conducting original research at the University of Richmond\u2019s law library. <em>The American Civil War Collection 1860 \u2013 1922<\/em> and <em>The Civil War: Antebellum to Reconstruction, 1840 \u2013 1877<\/em> feature newspapers, government documents, and other rare printed materials from the era.<\/p>\n<p>Both collections offer a unique opportunity to research the social, legal, and political climate of the United States and the Confederacy with primary materials. Each collection holds a variety of materials from addresses to posters and poems which can be browsed by genre, subject, author, history of orienting, place of publication, or language.<\/p>\n<p><em>The American Civil War Collection, 1860 \u2013 1922<\/em> focuses on materials related to the economic, military, political, and social aspects of the period. <em>The Civil War: Antebellum to Reconstruction, 1840 \u2013 1877<\/em> focuses on politics, society, and daily life during the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two new exciting resources available for conducting original research at the University of Richmond\u2019s law library. The American Civil War Collection 1860 \u2013 1922 and The Civil War: Antebellum to Reconstruction, 1840 \u2013 1877 feature newspapers, government documents,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36495,508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-resource","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}