Articles

What Happened at Mountain Meadows? (October 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
To a Speculator Dying Young (November 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Queen Barton (April 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Dr. Lauderdale Goes to War (December 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Andrew Johnson's Impeachment as Prelude (February/March 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Disenthralling Ourselves (April 1992 | Volume: 43, 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)
How We Got Lincoln (November 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Great Railroad War of 1877 (Spring 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln Saves A Schoolboy’s Pride (Spring 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
A Graceful Exit (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The O'Learys and the Great Chicago Fire (November 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
General Lee’s Daughters (July/August 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
A Slave’s Audacious Bid for Freedom (Fall 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The First Chapter of Children’s Rights (July/august 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Battle Of The Little Bighorn (Spring 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 1)
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)
The Central Fact of American History (February/March 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Bringing Camels to the Southwest in 1855 (February/March 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
“Strong Enough to Float an Iron Wedge” (Winter 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Consequences of the Skirmish at Lewis Farm (July/August 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Surprise Inscription Found on Lincoln's Watch (Summer 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
"Oh doctor, do what you can!" (Summer 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
“The Tide is Setting Strongly Against Us” (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The South’s Inner Civil War (March 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Confederates Honored by the U.S. Army (June 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Civil War's 150th is Heating Up (Winter 2011 | Volume: 60, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Enlisted for Life (June/July 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Documents

This political cartoon illustrates James Buchanan beset by figures who employ quotes from the Ostend Manifesto to legitimize their criminal acts.
Ostend Manifesto
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
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)
Frederick Douglass Address Cover Page
John Brown: An Address
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Steven Spielburg
Gettysburg Dedication Day Ceremony a Naturalization Ceremony & remarks from Steven Spielberg
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Naturalization Convention Between the United States and Austria Hungry
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Tobacco Admission Treaty Between the United States and Austria-Hungary
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln as They Saw Him by Herbert Mitgang- Excerpt
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
H.R. 14
H.R.14 — 38th Congress (1863-1865)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
A Plea for Captain John Brown
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Charleston Mercury Article
The Insurrection
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Rochester Evening Express, Editorial
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Sam Waterson
Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address, as read by Sam Waterston May 23, 2004
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Collections

The Statue of the Freed Slave
The Slaves Freed, by Stephen Oates
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Minuteman
America as a Gun Culture, by Richard Hofstadter
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The American Cowboy
How The Frontier Shaped The American Character, by Ray Allen Billington
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), Multiple Eras
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind
Hollywood History, by Mark C. Carnes
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
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)

Historical Images

Park map of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana.
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Map
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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)
Lincoln Photo
Abraham Lincoln on the day of his speech at the Cooper Union
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)