Hi All, This might prove helpful to some on the list. I use newspapers and magazines of the period being researched to get a feel of everyday life during my ancestor's lifetime. These are scholarly databases, so the articles are well written and carefully researched, but very interesting. Isabel Gathright gathrightis@sbcglobal.net Civil War Material: Free Access in June Alexander Street Press is allowing open access to The American Civil War Online, its comprehensive series of online Civil War collections, through June 30. New to this series is Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera. Alexander Street is a premier publisher of scholarly databases in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. See http://alexanderstreet.com/resources/civilwar.access.htm