Articles

Looking Back Without Anger (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
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Grant Splits Dixie (Summer 2017 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Blood on the Photo (April/May 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Consequences of the Skirmish at Lewis Farm (July/August 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
“The Tide is Setting Strongly Against Us” (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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)
The Fires of Norfolk (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
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)
“With Malice Toward None” (Winter 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Remembering Bruce Catton (September 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Rock of Chickamauga (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
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Lincoln's Boys (Spring 2018 | Volume: 63, Issue: 1)
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The South’s Inner Civil War (March 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 2)
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Stephen Crane’s Inspiration (May/June 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 3)
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Disenthralling Ourselves (April 1992 | Volume: 43, 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)
Lincoln Walks a Tightrope (Spring 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 2)
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The First Kansas Colored (February/March 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 1)
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In the Defense of the Republic (Summer 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 2)
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If Lincoln Hadn’t Died... (Winter 2009 | Volume: 58, Issue: 6)
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Robert E. Lee’s “Severest Struggle” (Winter 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 1)
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“Strong Enough to Float an Iron Wedge” (Winter 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 1)
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The First Chapter of Children’s Rights (July/august 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 5)
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Creating the Ultimate Civil War Resource (July/August 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 5)
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In Praise of Pierce (August/September 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 5)
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How Did Lincoln Die? (February/March 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 1)
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Drake's Rock Oil (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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Bringing Camels to the Southwest in 1855 (February/March 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Nez Perce Flight for Justice (Fall 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
How We Got Lincoln (November 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 7)
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Confederates Honored by the U.S. Army (June 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 3)
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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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Iron Wills, Iron Ships (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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Historical Documents

Frederick Douglass Address Cover Page
John Brown: An Address
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation: Argentina and the U.S.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Amnesty Oath
Amnesty Oath of Robert E. Lee
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Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis' Farewell Address
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln Address
Cooper Union Address
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Custer's Last Charge
Custer's Last Charge (Song)
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)
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)
Homestead Act Commemorative Stamp
Homestead Act Commemorative Stamp
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)
Joint Resolution Submitting 13th Amendment to the States; signed by Abraham Lincoln and Congress Congress, Wednesday, February 01, 1865
Joint Resolution Submitting 13th Amendment to the States; signed by Abraham Lincoln and Congress Congress, Wednesday, February 01, 1865
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A Gold Hunter's Experience
A Gold Hunter's Experience, Chalkley J. Hambleton
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)
Oberlin College
Oberlin Women’s Suffrage Debate
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Images

George Armstrong Custer
Major General George Armstrong Custer
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Photograph of Peter, a formerly enslaved man
Photograph of Peter, a formerly enslaved man
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James Buchanan surrounded by criminal quoting the Ostend Manifesto
The Ostend Doctrine
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), 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.
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Collections

Lincoln at the Time of the Cooper Union Speech
Lincoln, the Orator by Harold Holzer
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