Historical Documents

S.J.RES.150 -- To designate June 15, 1991, as "Magna Carta Day".
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Beale Street, Memphis, TN
Birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll? Memphis has plenty of evidence in its favor
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Texas Revolution
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Petition
Petition of Ten Prisoners at Ipswich
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763)
Penelope J. Corfield
All People Are Living Histories—Which Is Why History Matters
Metahistory & Historiography, Multiple Eras
Shabana Maani, gives a polio vaccination to a child in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday March 29, 2021 (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the UN says
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Frederick J. Turner
Frederick Jackson Turner- Short Biography
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Arraignment of Guiteau
The Trial of Charles Guiteau: An Account- Excerpt
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Hitchcock Scene
YouTube Video of Dream Sequence from Spellbound
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present), Multiple Eras
Patsy Murr, first grader at Fulton School in Lancaster, Pa., gets her Salk shot from Dr. Norman E. Snyder as she is held by Mrs. Walter Sourweine, April 25, 1955. Others view the proceedings with mixed emotions
The Dangers of the Antivaccine Movement- Excerpt
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Daisy Bates Letter
On the Treatment of the Little Rock Nine
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Oberlin College
Oberlin Women’s Suffrage Debate
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)
Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton (left to right) lie dead after the gunfight.
OK Corral Inquest Transcript Found in Arizona Jailhouse Store Room
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire” Speech
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present), Metahistory & Historiography
The President Dead
The President Dead- September 19, 1881
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Blog- Rebirth of St. Nicholas League
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present), Multiple Eras
Making Sense of Films: Film as Social and Cultural History
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present), Multiple Eras
Grand Opening, 1995. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum: Why is the Rock Hall in Cleveland?
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Historical Marker
Salem Covenant of 1629
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763)
Cover of El Plan de Santa Barbara
El Plan de Santa Barbara (Plan of Santa Barbara)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Resolve Relative to the Indictment, Trial, Conviction, and Execution of Ann Pudeator and Certain Other Person For “Witchcraft” in the Year Sixteen Hundred and Ninety-Two
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Insanity Defense Overview
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Historical Images

Cartoon
A new declaration of independence in the year 1885
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Custer’s Camp at Hidden Wood Creek
Custer’s Camp at Hidden Wood Creek
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Women's Suffrage Map
Virginia Memory: The Rights of the People– Women are People. Suffrage Victory Map, 1920
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Coroner Page
Cochise County Case No. 48. Coroner’s Transmittal Page to the Clerk of the District Court Cochise County
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Many Faces of Polio
Many Faces of Polio
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
HMS Jersey
Interior of the HMS Jersey Prison Ship
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Fire Insurance Map
1866 Fire Insurance Map of Tombstone, Ariz., Shows the O.K. Corral and Surrounding Streets
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)
Custer’s Column of cavalry, artillery, and wagons
Custer’s Column of cavalry, artillery, and wagons
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Reported polio cases and deaths, United States, 1910 to 2022
Reported polio cases and deaths, United States, 1910 to 2022
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Sugarhouse Prison
Rhinelander's sugar house & residence
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
George Armstrong Custer
Major General George Armstrong Custer
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Park map of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana.
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Map
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Benjamin Franklin
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Sun Record Studios
Sun Record Studios
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
A Breaking Scene of Western Pioneers
A Breaking Scene of the Western Pioneers
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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)

Collections

Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys
The Magazine that Taught Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Millay How to Write, by Paul Rosta
Multiple Eras, ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Daniel Boone Escorting the American Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham
Pioneers In Petticoats, by Helena Huntington Smith
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze
America: Experiment or Destiny, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Trial of George Jacobs, August 5, 1692, by Tompkins H. Matteson, 1855
Free The Salem Five! by Frederic Schwarz
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763)
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
James Dean
The Rise and Decline of the Teenager, by Thomas Hine
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present), Multiple Eras
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Growing Up Colored, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
US Army helicopters fire into the tree line to cover South Vietnamese ground troops in March 1965
First Blood In Vietnam, by Stanley Karnow
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Assassination of James Garfield
The President and the Lunatic, by Bruce Watson
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
POWs Held On The HMS Jersey Prison Ship
Patriots or Terrorists, by Edwin G. Burrows
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)