Articles

The Madness of Mary Lincoln (June/July 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Dear Mr. Lincoln … (February/March 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
More Civil War at The National Archives (Winter 2011 | Volume: 60, Issue: 4)
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)
Bruce Catton (Spring 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Pony Rides Again (and Again) (Spring 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Controversial Career of Col. Corcoran (November/December 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Iron John in the Gilded Age (September 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Stonewall Jackson’s Deadly Calm (December 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
How Did Lincoln Die? (February/March 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Trouble With the Bixby Letter (July/August 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln’s Legacy (Winter 2009 | Volume: 58, Issue: 6)
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 Union Army's Unheralded Intelligence Czar (October 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Fires of Norfolk (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln the Orator (Winter 2009 | Volume: 58, Issue: 6)
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)
In Praise of Pierce (August/September 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 5)
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)
General Longstreet and the Lost Cause (February/March 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
‘We Were As Brothers’ (November 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Haunted Major (February/March 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Destruction of Fighting Joe Hooker (October 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Was Jefferson Davis Captured in a Dress? (Fall 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Was the Presidential Election Stolen? (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Juneteenth! (June 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Queen Barton (April 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 3)
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 Great Arrogance of the Present Is to Forget the Intelligence of the Past (September/October 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
“We Will Not Do Duty Any Longer for Seven Dollars per Month” (February 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Terrible Price of Freedom (April 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lee’s Last Stand (October 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Buffalo Bill and the Duel at Warbonnet Creek (October 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Libbie Custer (December 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Blackface: The Sad History of Minstrel Shows (Winter 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The First Kansas Colored (February/March 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Documents

Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis' Farewell Address
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lyons Seward Treaty of 1862
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln and Hamlin Image
Book Review by Chandra Miller Manning
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Cover Sheet Summarizing Disposition of the Dred Scott Case by the U.S. Supreme Court
Dred Scott v. Sandford
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Crittenden Compromise
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Grant Inauguration
First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Mary Todd Lincoln letter
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Collections

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
The Statue of the Freed Slave
The Slaves Freed, by Stephen Oates
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Images

"Cowboys off the Trail" - statuary after painting by Frederic Remington, entrance to pike, World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo.
"Cowboys off the Trail" - statuary after painting by Frederic Remington, entrance to pike, World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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
Park map of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana.
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Map
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Map of the Union 1864
Bacon and Company, Map of the United States, showing the territory in possession of the Federal Union, January, 1864
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Custer’s Camp at Hidden Wood Creek
Custer’s Camp at Hidden Wood Creek
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