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Democratic Party Platform, June 18, 1860.

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

John Brown's Entrance Into Hell.

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Lincoln, Hollywood, and an Opportunity for Historians- Excerpt

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Amnesty Oath of Robert E. Lee

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Abolition/Slavery Timeline

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Joint Resolution Proposing a 13th Amendment to the Constitution

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

The Confessions of Nat Turner- Excerpt

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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)

The Liberator Comments on Nat Turner’s Insurrection

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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)

Emancipation Proclamation 1863

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Lincoln, The Movie and Man- Excerpt

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

The Confessions of William Styron by Yvonne French

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Maryland state ticket. Election, Tuesday November 6th, 1860...For President of the United States John Bell of Tennessee. For Vice President of the United States, Edward Everett of Massachusetts

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Cooper Union Address

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

My Favorite Historical Novel by John Demos

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

A Plea for Captain John Brown- Excerpts

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Gettysburg Dedication Day Ceremony a Naturalization Ceremony & remarks from Steven Spielberg

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Nat Turner by T. Thomas Fortune

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

Glory hally, hallelujah! or The John Brown song. H. De Marsan, 54 Chatham Street, N.Y.

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

H.R.14 — 38th Congress (1863-1865)

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Book Review by Chandra Miller Manning

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Jefferson Davis' Farewell Address

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

The Insurrection

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)

Reconstruction Amendments 1865-1870

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Images

Gen. William T. Sherman

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Horrid Massacre in Virginia- Composite of scenes of Nat Turner’s rebellion

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Bacon and Company, Map of the United States, showing the territory in possession of the Federal Union, January, 1864

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Emancipation by Thomas Nast

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

The Union must and shall be preserved. For President Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. For Vice President Hannibal Hamlin of Maine.

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

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)

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg. A Harvest of Death

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

The National Game. Three "Outs" and One "Run" – Abraham Winning the Ball

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Tragic Prelude by John Steuart Curry

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Miss Clara Barton

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

John Brown. Meeting the slave-mother and her child on the steps of Charlestown jail on his way to execution

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Scene in the House on the passage of the proposition to amend the Constitution, January 31, 1865

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

[Jefferson Davis dressed in women's clothing being captured in a tent by two Union soldiers as two women and an African American man look on] / Francis Hacker.

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Collections

Children of Darkness, by Stephen B. Oates

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Nat Turner Revisited, by William Styron

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Why The Civil War Still Matters, by James McPherson

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Lincoln at the Time of the Cooper Union Speech

Lincoln, the Orator by Harold Holzer

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)