Historical Documents

Corwin Amendment
Joint Resolution Proposing a 13th Amendment to the Constitution
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Longstreet Letter
Battlefield Dispatches Gettysburg- July 3, 1863
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Charleston Mercury Article
The Insurrection
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Medicine Lodge Treaty
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Amendments Proposed by the Peace Conference, February 8-27, 1861
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)
The Crittenden Compromise
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)
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)
Custer's Last Charge
Custer's Last Charge (Song)
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)
Lincoln First Inaugural Address
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
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)
Homestead Act
Homestead Act (1862)
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)
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)
Treaty with the Apache 1852
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Articles

Did Hayes Steal the Election from Tilden? (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Bruce Catton (Spring 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Grant At Shiloh (February 1960 | Volume: 11, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Are Our Liberties in Peril? (November/December 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 8)
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)
Financial Folklore (February/March 1991 | Volume: 42, 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)
The Stolen Election (July/august 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Biddy Sues for Freedom (Winter 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
John Wilkes Booth’s Other Victim (February/March 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 1)
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)
A Rebel Remembers (November 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
To a Speculator Dying Young (November 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 7)
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)
No Quarter: The Battle of The Crater, 1864, by Richard Slotkin (Fall 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 3)
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)
Lincoln and the Navy (Winter 2009 | Volume: 58, Issue: 6)
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)
In Praise of Pierce (August/September 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 5)
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)
Quantrill’s Bones (July/August 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 4)
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 Great Dismal Swamp (April/May 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Abraham Lincoln Invents Presidents Day (Winter 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
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)
High Stakes at Antietam (Summer 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Battle Of The Little Bighorn (Spring 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln the Orator (Winter 2009 | Volume: 58, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Images

Park map of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana.
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Map
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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)
Cartoon
An Heir to the Throne, Or the Next Republican Candidate
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)

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