Historical Documents

A Plea for Captain John Brown
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Treaty of Little Arkansas
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Extradition Convention Between the United States and Austria-Hungary
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Homestead Act
Homestead Act (1862)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton (left to right) lie dead after the gunfight.
OK Corral Inquest Transcript Found in Arizona Jailhouse Store Room
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Sam Waterson
Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address, as read by Sam Waterston May 23, 2004
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
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)
Charleston Mercury Article
The Insurrection
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Treaty with the Apache 1852
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Tobacco Admission Treaty Between the United States and Austria-Hungary
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln's address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery,
Gettysburg Address
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Republican Party Platform
National Republican platform adopted by National Republican Convention, held in Chicago. May 17, 1860.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Broadside of John Brown's Last Speech
John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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)
John L. O'Sullivan
John O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny
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)
Mary Todd Lincoln letter
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
This political cartoon illustrates James Buchanan beset by figures who employ quotes from the Ostend Manifesto to legitimize their criminal acts.
Ostend Manifesto
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Articles

Search and Destroy (November 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Cartoonery (Spring/Summer 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 4)
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)
"Oh doctor, do what you can!" (Summer 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 2)
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 Great Dismal Swamp (April/May 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Unlocking History: Treasures of Robert E. Lee Discovered (Winter 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 1)
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)
George Kennan Exposes Russian Cruelty in Siberia (Winter 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 1)
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)
Abraham Lincoln Again (February/March 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Ghost at Harpers Ferry (November 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Juneteenth! (June 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Madness of Mary Lincoln (June/July 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
High Stakes at Antietam (Summer 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Congress Fights the Civil War (Spring 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lee’s Greatest Victory (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
“A Most Abandoned Hypocrite” (February/March 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Dred Scott: the Supreme Court's Worst Decision (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Tales of a Gettysburg Guide (April 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Straight Talk from Camp Humbug (July/August 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 4)
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)
The Daring Escape of Frederick Douglass (Spring 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 2)
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)

Historical Images

George Armstrong Custer
Major General George Armstrong Custer
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Jefferson Davis captured
[Jefferson Davis dressed in women's clothing being captured in a tent by two Union soldiers as two women and an African American man look on] / Francis Hacker.
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)
"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)
Harvest of Death
Pennsylvania, Gettysburg. A Harvest of Death
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
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)

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