Historical Documents

Oberlin College
Oberlin Women’s Suffrage Debate
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
S.123 — 38th Congress (1863-1865)
S.123 - A Bill To abolish slavery throughout all the States and Territories of the United States.
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)
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)
Treaty with the Apache 1852
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”
New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”
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)
Medicine Lodge Treaty
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)
Rail Splitter
“The Last Race of the Rail-Splitter,” Broadside, ca. 1861
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
John Brown Song
Glory hally, hallelujah! or The John Brown song. H. De Marsan, 54 Chatham Street, N.Y.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Image of the first page of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Josephine and Wyatt Earp’s grave, Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, Colma, CA.
Josephine and Wyatt Earp- Article
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)

Articles

Reopened Museum Honors Women's Fight for Fairness (September 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Monitor Makes Port (April/May 2007 | Volume: 58, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Grant Takes on the Klan ( | Volume: 1, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Iron Wills, Iron Ships (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Bruce Catton (Spring 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)
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)
Search and Destroy (November 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 7)
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)
General Lee’s Daughters (July/August 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Fate of the ‘Bertrand’ (April/May 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Saving the IMAX of its Day (August/September 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Massacre at Fort Pillow (November/December 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Exploring the Last Rebel Ground (April 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 2)
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)
The Struggles of Edwin Stanton (Fall 2017 | Volume: 62, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Technological Turkeys (May/June 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Robber Baronesses (December 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Antietam: America's Bloodiest Day (September 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 4)
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)
All for the Union (May/June 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 3)
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)
Herter Brothers (February/March 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Collections

Lee surrenders
Why The Civil War Still Matters, by James McPherson
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln at the Time of the Cooper Union Speech
Lincoln, the Orator by Harold Holzer
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Images

Dodge City [Kans.] Peace Commissioners Camillus S. Fly, 1890
Dodge City [Kans.] Peace Commissioners Camillus S. Fly, 1890
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Douglas Letter
Bust of Stephen Douglas over Northern Democratic Party's presidential campaign shield
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Stonewall Jackson
General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Custer’s Column of cavalry, artillery, and wagons
Custer’s Column of cavalry, artillery, and wagons
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Clara Barton
Miss Clara Barton
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Emancipation by Thomas Nast
Emancipation by Thomas Nast
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Freedmen's Bureau Cartoon
"The Freedman's Bureau"
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Dorothea Lange Photograph
Sign Near Tombstone, Arizona. Boot Hill Graveyard
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln cartoon
The National Game. Three "Outs" and One "Run" – Abraham Winning the Ball
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Three Pronged Movements in the Sioux Expedition of 1876
Three Pronged Movements in the Sioux Expedition of 1876
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Political Cartoon
A Family Quarrel, or the Reason Why.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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)