Websites on 19th-century guitars ... and fiddles in a searchable website at Tufts

Valuable source: Search engine for Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University Perseus 4.0, also known as the Perseus Hopper. In addition to Greek and Roman classics, it has several Civil War-era memoirs and a paper called the Daily Dispatch [from where?] with 8 pages of directory from Plato to the 1860s on keyword "fiddle." http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ Directory of 19th-century American sources at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:cwar

Guitars http://www.guitarfoundation.org/drupal/node/4131 Guitar Foundation of America Guitar - Social History, Cultural Studies, and Sources This guide to research aims to recognize the social and cultural studies that have been done thus far on the guitar's behalf, including Web sites (as works in progress), and to suggest online resources that could yield good results if they were well and wisely searched. http://www.19thcenturyguitar.com/ The Unstrung History of the American Guitar: The Guitar and 19th Century American Music - David Bradford - The guitar is the voice of American popular music. How it got to be that way has a lot to do with Alpine yodelers, blackface minstrels and your great great grandmother. The blues and " Join us for an excursion through the neglected nineteenth century, when “guitar fever” first seized America. includes a page on minstrel shows,