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ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Collections

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind
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
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
John Brown
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Abraham Lincoln & Hannibal Hamlin
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Wyatt Earp
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

Historical Documents

Rail Splitter
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
This map shows the land acquired through the Gadsden Purchase Treaty
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Fugitive Slave Bill Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Homestead Act
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
This political cartoon illustrates James Buchanan beset by figures who employ quotes from the Ostend Manifesto to legitimize their criminal acts.
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln Address
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Custer's Last Charge
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Sioux Treaty
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Images

Park map of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Custer’s Column of cavalry, artillery, and wagons
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Photograph of Peter, a formerly enslaved man
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln cartoon
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)