Articles

The Test of Reconciliation in Terrible Times (November/December 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
John Wilkes Booth’s Other Victim (February/March 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
God’s Chosen Instrument (July/August 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 5)
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 Controversial Career of Col. Corcoran (November/December 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Last Confederate Prison (Fall 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Financial Folklore (February/March 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Looking Back Without Anger (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
My Brush with Eternity (July/August 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 4)
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)
The Freedman’s Bank (December 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 8)
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)
What Happened at Mountain Meadows? (October 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 7)
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)
She Kept the Nest (Fall 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Abolitionist John Doy (Spring 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 1)
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)
Ulysses S. Grant and the Whisky Frauds (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Are Our Liberties in Peril? (November/December 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 8)
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)
The Herndon Climb Honors Heroism During Shipwreck (June 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 4)
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)
Queen Barton (April 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 3)
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)
Dear Mr. Lincoln … (February/March 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 1)
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)
Search and Destroy (November 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Daring Escape of Frederick Douglass (Spring 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 2)
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)
When the Reaper Came Calling (Spring/Summer 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Easing Out the Invader (December 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 8)
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)
The Endless Pull of Gettysburg (August/September 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Heart Touched By Fire (Spring 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Stonewall Jackson’s Arm (April/May 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Abraham Lincoln Again (February/March 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Children of Gettysburg (May/June 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Quantrill’s Bones (July/August 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Why the Civil War Still Matters (Spring 2011 | Volume: 61, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Big Parade (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Civil War’s Greatest Scoop (July/August 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 5)
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)
“Strong Enough to Float an Iron Wedge” (Winter 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 1)
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)

Collections

Lincoln at the Time of the Cooper Union Speech
Lincoln, the Orator by Harold Holzer
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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)

Historical Documents

Tobacco Admission Treaty Between the United States and Austria-Hungary
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Page 1. of the Emancipation Act D.C.
District of Columbia Emancipation Act 1862
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Images

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
Lincoln print
The Union must and shall be preserved. For President Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. For Vice President Hannibal Hamlin of Maine.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)