Articles

Reopened Museum Honors Women's Fight for Fairness (September 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 6)
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)
George Kennan Exposes Russian Cruelty in Siberia (Winter 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
He Mastered Old Man River (December 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
A Spirit and Power Far Beyond Its Letter (Summer 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 2)
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)
The Children of Gettysburg (May/June 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
How We Got Lincoln (November 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
President Garfield is Shot (June/July 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Getting Right with Robert E. Lee (May/June 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Queen Barton (April 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Hero of the 20th (November 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 7)
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)
Reforming the Law (September 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Grant Splits Dixie (Summer 2017 | Volume: 62, 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)
Death March (June/July 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Surprise Inscription Found on Lincoln's Watch (Summer 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Civilized Landscape (April/May 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
What They Did There (December 1954 | Volume: 6, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
A. Lincoln, Writer (September/October 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 6)
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)
Simply a Man (February/March 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Descendant Sues Over Slave Photos (Spring 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
“We Will Not Do Duty Any Longer for Seven Dollars per Month” (February 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Digging Up Sunken Treasure Ships in the Missouri (April/May 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
How Railroads Forever Changed the Frontier (Spring/Summer 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
On the Road to Harriet Tubman (June/July 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Pluck Heard 'Round the World (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, 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)
The Rock of Chickamauga (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Forgotten Catastrophe in Peshtigo (April/May 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Civil War's 150th is Heating Up (Winter 2011 | Volume: 60, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Bringing Camels to the Southwest in 1855 (February/March 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Images

Political Cartoon
A Family Quarrel, or the Reason Why.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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
The Woman Who Dared
The Woman Who Dared by Thomas Wust
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln Photo
Abraham Lincoln on the day of his speech at the Cooper Union
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Documents

Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation: Argentina and the U.S.
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)
Amnesty Oath
Amnesty Oath of Robert E. Lee
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Charleston Mercury Article
The Insurrection
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)
Grant Inauguration
First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Corwin Amendment
Joint Resolution Proposing a 13th Amendment to the Constitution
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
A Plea for Captain John Brown
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln Address
Cooper Union Address
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Fugitive Slave Bill Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Collections

The Statue of the Freed Slave
The Slaves Freed, by Stephen Oates
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Abraham Lincoln & Hannibal Hamlin
America’s Oddest Election, by Harold Holzer
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)