Historical Images

"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)
The Woman Who Dared
The Woman Who Dared by Thomas Wust
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Three Pronged Movements in the Sioux Expedition of 1876
Three Pronged Movements in the Sioux Expedition of 1876
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Photograph of Peter, a formerly enslaved man
Photograph of Peter, a formerly enslaved man
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Infantry regiment
Infantry regiment in camp. [Probably 96th Pennsylvania Infantry at Camp Northumberland near Washington, DC, ca. 1861] Mathew Brady Collection. (Army) ca. 1861
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)
Tragic Prelude
Tragic Prelude by John Steuart Curry
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Articles

Creating the Ultimate Civil War Resource (July/August 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Disenthralling Ourselves (April 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Treasure From The Carpentry Shop (December 1979 | Volume: 31, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Race Riots in Manhattan in 1863 (March 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Reopened Museum Honors Women's Fight for Fairness (September 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
General Lee’s Daughters (July/August 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 4)
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)
When the Reaper Came Calling (Spring/Summer 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 4)
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)
Surprise Inscription Found on Lincoln's Watch (Summer 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Harriett Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, 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 Union Army's Unheralded Intelligence Czar (October 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 5)
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)
Lee’s Greatest Victory (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
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)
President Garfield is Shot (June/July 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 3)
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)
“Let Us Die to Make Men Free” (Summer 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Wrapped in Glory: Black Troops of the Civil War (Spring 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 3)
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)
Biddy Sues for Freedom (Winter 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 1)
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)
The Forgotten Triumph of the Paw Paw (October 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Great Railroad War of 1877 (Spring 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Looking Back Without Anger (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Man Who Raised Hell (October/November 1986 | Volume: 37, 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)
Easing Out the Invader (December 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Mephistopheles of Wall Street (December 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Selling of Libby Prison (November 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Documents

Lincoln First Inaugural Address
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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)
John Brown Entrance Into Hell Song
John Brown's Entrance Into Hell.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
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)
Rep. Joe Courtney
Ahead of Oscars, Courtney asks Spielberg, DreamWorks to correct Lincoln inaccuracy that places Connecticut on wrong side of slavery debate
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Caroline Churchill
"Little Sheaves" Gathered While Gleaning After Reapers. Being Letters of Travel Commencing in 1870, and Ending in 1873
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)
House proposing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution
Civil Rights Act 1866
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)
Frederick Douglass Address Cover Page
John Brown: An Address
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Crittenden Compromise
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Collections

Wyatt Earp
Who Was Wyatt Earp? by Allen Barra
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)