Articles

Easing Out the Invader (December 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 8)
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Frederick, Maryland: A Civil War Crossroads (September 2000 | Volume: 51, 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)
The Little Bighorn (April 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Best Civil War Books (November/December 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 6)
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)
The Pluck Heard 'Round the World (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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President Garfield is Shot (June/July 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 3)
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)
Saving the IMAX of its Day (August/September 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 4)
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Getting Right with Robert E. Lee (May/June 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 3)
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)
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)
"Oh doctor, do what you can!" (Summer 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Financial Folklore (February/March 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 1)
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How Did Lincoln Die? (February/March 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 1)
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In the Defense of the Republic (Summer 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 2)
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“The Tide is Setting Strongly Against Us” (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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Stolen into Slavery (Fall 2020 George Washington Prize | Volume: 65, Issue: 8)
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The Man Who Raised Hell (October/November 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 6)
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Remembering Bruce Catton (September 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 6)
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Lee’s Last Stand (October 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 6)
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Unlike Clinton's Rich Guests, Lincoln Never Slept in "The Lincoln Bedroom" (July/August 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 4)
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Lincoln As Commander in Chief (Winter 2009, Summer 2025 | Volume: 70, Issue: 3)
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Lincoln’s Legacy (Winter 2009 | Volume: 58, Issue: 6)
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Stonewall Jackson’s Deadly Calm (December 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 8)
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Libbie Custer (December 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 8)
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Was Jefferson Davis Captured in a Dress? (Fall 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 3)
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The Civil War’s Greatest Scoop (July/August 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 5)
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Historical Documents

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”
New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”
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)
Gadsden Purchase Treaty
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Mary Todd Lincoln letter
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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)
Charleston Mercury Article
The Insurrection
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Lincoln's address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery,
Gettysburg Address
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
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Longstreet Letter
Battlefield Dispatches Gettysburg- July 3, 1863
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House proposing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution
Civil Rights Act 1866
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Amnesty Oath
Amnesty Oath of Robert E. Lee
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Cover of Life Magazine 1913
Trenton State Sentinel and Capital, Editorial
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Grant Inauguration
First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant
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Cover Sheet Summarizing Disposition of the Dred Scott Case by the U.S. Supreme Court
Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Collections

The Battle of Gettysburg
Slaughter on Cemetery Ridge, by Stephen Sears
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The Minuteman
America as a Gun Culture, by Richard Hofstadter
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Images

The Freedmen's Bureau Cartoon
"The Freedman's Bureau"
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Infantry regiment
Infantry regiment in camp. [Probably 96th Pennsylvania Infantry at Camp Northumberland near Washington, DC, ca. 1861] Mathew Brady Collection. (Army) ca. 1861
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Lincoln Photo
Abraham Lincoln on the day of his speech at the Cooper Union
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Call for Black Homesteaders to Leave for Kansas
Benjamin Singleton- Recruitment of Black Homesteaders, 1878
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)