Historical Documents

Tobacco Admission Treaty Between the United States and Austria-Hungary
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
House proposing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution
Civil Rights Act 1866
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln Assassination Headline
Announcement to the Army of the Death of President Lincoln
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Broadside of John Brown's Last Speech
John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Cover of Life Magazine 1913
Trenton State Sentinel and Capital, Editorial
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln First Inaugural Address
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
A Gold Hunter's Experience
A Gold Hunter's Experience, Chalkley J. Hambleton
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Supplemental Treaty to the Treaty of Little Arkansas
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Gadsden Purchase Treaty
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Susan B. Anthony Conviction Notice
Susan B. Anthony Trial Statement (1873)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton (left to right) lie dead after the gunfight.
OK Corral Inquest Transcript Found in Arizona Jailhouse Store Room
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln, Hollywood, and an Opportunity for Historians- Excerpt
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Pamphlet
Democratic ticket. Our principals the Constitution. For President John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky For Vice President Joseph Lane of Oregon
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”
New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Custer's Last Charge
Custer's Last Charge (Song)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
John L. O'Sullivan
John O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Rep. Joe Courtney
Ahead of Oscars, Courtney asks Spielberg, DreamWorks to correct Lincoln inaccuracy that places Connecticut on wrong side of slavery debate
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Articles

No Quarter: The Battle of The Crater, 1864, by Richard Slotkin (Fall 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Mephistopheles of Wall Street (December 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Unlike Clinton's Rich Guests, Lincoln Never Slept in "The Lincoln Bedroom" (July/August 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Death March (June/July 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Remembering Bruce Catton (September 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln Walks a Tightrope (Spring 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
How Railroads Forever Changed the Frontier (Spring/Summer 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
“What, to the American Slave, Is the Fourth of July?” (Summer 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Robber Baronesses (December 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The First News Blackout (June/July 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
President Lincoln's Disastrous First Month (Spring 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
General Longstreet and the Lost Cause (February/March 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Wrapped in Glory: Black Troops of the Civil War (Spring 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Digging Up Sunken Treasure Ships in the Missouri (April/May 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
USS Boondoggle (February/March 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Congress Fights the Civil War (Spring 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lee’s Greatest Victory (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Stolen Election (July/august 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
In the Defense of the Republic (Summer 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Slaughter on Cemetery Ridge (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Disenthralling Ourselves (April 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
If Lincoln Hadn’t Died... (Winter 2009 | Volume: 58, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Monitor Makes Port (April/May 2007 | Volume: 58, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Haunted by Authors: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (November/December 2022 | Volume: 68, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
“With Malice Toward None” (Winter 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Massacre at Fort Pillow (November/December 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Salmon Chase Saves the Union (Spring 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Images

Scene in the House on the passage of the proposition to amend the Constitution, January 31, 1865
Scene in the House on the passage of the proposition to amend the Constitution, January 31, 1865
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Infantry regiment
Infantry regiment in camp. [Probably 96th Pennsylvania Infantry at Camp Northumberland near Washington, DC, ca. 1861] Mathew Brady Collection. (Army) ca. 1861
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Dodge City [Kans.] Peace Commissioners Camillus S. Fly, 1890
Dodge City [Kans.] Peace Commissioners Camillus S. Fly, 1890
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Women's Suffrage Map
Virginia Memory: The Rights of the People– Women are People. Suffrage Victory Map, 1920
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)

Collections

Chromolithograph entitled "Custer's Last Fight," National Museum of American History
A Road They Did Not Know, by Larry McMurtry
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)