Rights and Usage

Civil War Washington, as a whole, relies on and promotes open collaboration and shared data, research, texts, images and intellectual products. The editors, Susan C. Lawrence, Kenneth M. Price, and Kenneth J. Winkle, hope that their work will promote discovery, debate and further inquiry. This site is supported by a range of both copyrighted and public domain material from institutions and individuals who have generously contributed them. Publication or commercial use of any of the copyrighted materials without direct authorization from the copyright holders is prohibited.

You do not need to request permission to link to the CWW project or to individual items within the project. We prefer that your links to the project in its entirety be targeted to the main page, and that any links to individual items within the project be accompanied by a link to the main page.

To request the right to use essays from the CWW project see the Request for Permission page. Many images drawn from the Library of Congress and the National Archives are in the public domain and are free to use. For permission to use other images, you should write directly to the library holding the material (libraries are credited within the annotations in the "Texts & Images" section of the project).

To identify the CWW as the source of information that you are using in a paper, article, or book, please include the complete title of the project, its URL, and the date you accessed it, along with the other relevant documentation. Here is an example using the Chicago Manual of Style: Civil War Washington. http://civilwardc.org (accessed January 29, 2010).

More information about copyright and fair use can be found at the Library of Congress (http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/) and the Stanford University Libraries (http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html) websites.