Articles

The Destruction of Fighting Joe Hooker (October 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 6)
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Bringing Camels to the Southwest in 1855 (February/March 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 1)
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President Garfield is Shot (June/July 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 3)
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Reopened Museum Honors Women's Fight for Fairness (September 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 6)
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Grant Takes on the Klan ( | Volume: 1, Issue: 1)
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Antietam: America's Bloodiest Day (September 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 4)
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The Civil War's 150th is Heating Up (Winter 2011 | Volume: 60, Issue: 4)
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The Fires of Norfolk (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Little Round Top Restored (Fall 2025 | Volume: 70, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Ten Best Civil War Films (August/September 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 4)
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Bruce Catton (Spring 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)
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The Greatest Diarist (March 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 2)
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How I Met Lincoln (July/August 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 4)
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Was the Presidential Election Stolen? (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
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The South’s Inner Civil War (March 1989, Summer 2025 | Volume: 70, Issue: 3)
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The Stolen Election (July/august 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 5)
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The Civilized Landscape (April/May 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 3)
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Massacre at Fort Pillow (November/December 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 7)
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“Strong Enough to Float an Iron Wedge” (Winter 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 1)
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Lincoln Refines American Democracy (Winter 2026 | Volume: 71, Issue: 1)
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John Wilkes Booth’s Other Victim (February/March 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 1)
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Lincoln's Illegal Arrests (Spring 2026 | Volume: 71, Issue: 2)
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Disenthralling Ourselves (April 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 2)
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Andrew Johnson's Impeachment as Prelude (February/March 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 1)
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Iron John in the Gilded Age (September 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 5)
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The Secret Six Behind Harpers Ferry (Fall 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 3)
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America’s Most Famous Letter (February/March 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 1)
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Creating the Ultimate Civil War Resource (July/August 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 5)
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“We Will Not Do Duty Any Longer for Seven Dollars per Month” (February 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 1)
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Did Johnny Come Marching Home With PTSD? (May 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 3)
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The Fate of the ‘Bertrand’ (April/May 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 2)
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The Union Army's Unheralded Intelligence Czar (October 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 5)
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Iron Wills, Iron Ships (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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Saving the IMAX of its Day (August/September 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 4)
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The Daring Escape of Frederick Douglass (Spring 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 2)
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Historical Documents

Amendments Proposed in Congress by Senator John J. Crittenden
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Frederick Douglass Address Cover Page
John Brown: An Address
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Rail Splitter
“The Last Race of the Rail-Splitter,” Broadside, ca. 1861
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Lincoln, The Movie and Man- Excerpt
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Letters from An American Farmer
Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
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)
Abolition/Slavery Timeline
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Homestead Act
Homestead Act (1862)
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Rep. Joe Courtney
Ahead of Oscars, Courtney asks Spielberg, DreamWorks to correct Lincoln inaccuracy that places Connecticut on wrong side of slavery debate
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John Brown Song
Glory hally, hallelujah! or The John Brown song. H. De Marsan, 54 Chatham Street, N.Y.
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Corwin Amendment
Joint Resolution Proposing a 13th Amendment to the Constitution
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Historical Images

Infantry regiment
Infantry regiment in camp. [Probably 96th Pennsylvania Infantry at Camp Northumberland near Washington, DC, ca. 1861] Mathew Brady Collection. (Army) ca. 1861
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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)
Map
U.S. Territorial Acquisition Map
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
Sheet Music
“The Battle-Cry of Freedom” with Confederate Lyrics
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Fire Insurance Map
1866 Fire Insurance Map of Tombstone, Ariz., Shows the O.K. Corral and Surrounding Streets
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