Articles

Grant Splits Dixie (Summer 2017 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Enlisted for Life (June/July 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
General Longstreet and the Lost Cause (February/March 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Big Parade (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The First News Blackout (June/July 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Terrible Price of Freedom (April 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 3)
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)
A Spirit and Power Far Beyond Its Letter (Summer 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 2)
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)
Lincoln Saves A Schoolboy’s Pride (Spring 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 1)
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)
Biddy Sues for Freedom (Winter 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 1)
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)
The Great Dismal Swamp (April/May 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
A War That Never Goes Away (March 1990 | Volume: 41, 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)
How Railroads Forever Changed the Frontier (Spring/Summer 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 4)
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)
Are Our Liberties in Peril? (November/December 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Blood on the Photo (April/May 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Stolen into Slavery (Fall 2020 George Washington Prize | Volume: 65, Issue: 8)
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)
The Greatest Diarist (March 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 2)
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)
Technological Turkeys (May/June 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Was the Presidential Election Stolen? (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
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 Abolitionist John Doy (Spring 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Trouble With the Bixby Letter (July/August 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Longwood: The Untimely Octagon (October/November 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
A Lincoln Decoy (September 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Robert E. Lee’s “Severest Struggle” (Winter 2008 | Volume: 58, 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)

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
Chromolithograph entitled "Custer's Last Fight," National Museum of American History
A Road They Did Not Know, by Larry McMurtry
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Documents

Naturalization Convention Between the United States and Austria Hungry
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Lyons Seward Treaty of 1862
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Image of the first page of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Sioux Treaty
Sioux Treaty of 1868- Excerpts
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Newspaper Image
Abraham Lincoln on he day of his speech at the Cooper Union The New York Daily Tribune, Tuesday, February 28, 1860
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Reconstruction Amendments 1865-1870
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Pamphlet
Democratic ticket. Our principals the Constitution. For President John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky For Vice President Joseph Lane of Oregon
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)
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)
Amnesty Oath
Amnesty Oath of Robert E. Lee
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Joint Resolution Submitting 13th Amendment to the States; signed by Abraham Lincoln and Congress Congress, Wednesday, February 01, 1865
Joint Resolution Submitting 13th Amendment to the States; signed by Abraham Lincoln and Congress Congress, Wednesday, February 01, 1865
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)

Historical Images

Dodge City [Kans.] Peace Commissioners Camillus S. Fly, 1890
Dodge City [Kans.] Peace Commissioners Camillus S. Fly, 1890
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Political Cartoon
A Family Quarrel, or the Reason Why.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Stonewall Jackson
General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)