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Pamphlet, John Brown’s "Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States"

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

A Plea for Captain John Brown

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

Nat Turner by T. Thomas Fortune

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

First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant

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

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

Additional Article to the Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade

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

Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address, as read by Sam Waterston May 23, 2004

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

The Liberator Comments on Nat Turner’s Insurrection

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Robert E. Lee’s Demand for the Surrender of John Brown and His Party

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Reconstruction Amendments 1865-1870

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)

Lincoln as They Saw Him by Herbert Mitgang- Excerpt

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

Fear of Insurrection: Chapter 12 of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”

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

John Brown's Entrance Into Hell.

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

Ostend Manifesto

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

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)

Argument of Roger S. Baldwin Before the Supreme Court in the Case of U.S. Appellants vs. Cinque, and Other, Africans of the Amistad

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

S.123 - A Bill To abolish slavery throughout all the States and Territories of the United States.

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

Announcement to the Army of the Death of President Lincoln

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

Jefferson Davis' Farewell Address

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

Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln

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

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

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

Democratic Party Platform, June 18, 1860.

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)

Court Proceedings and Testimony Regarding the Denmark Vesey Rebellion

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Amnesty Oath of Robert E. Lee

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

My Favorite Historical Novel by John Demos

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Joint Resolution Proposing a 13th Amendment to the Constitution

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

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)

Amendments Proposed by the Peace Conference, February 8-27, 1861

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

John Brown: An Address

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

Collections

Lincoln at the Time of the Cooper Union Speech

Lincoln, the Orator by Harold Holzer

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

Children of Darkness, by Stephen B. Oates

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder

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

The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Why The Civil War Still Matters, by James McPherson

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

Nat Turner Revisited, by William Styron

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

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind

Hollywood History, by Mark C. Carnes

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

Historical Images

Tragic Prelude by John Steuart Curry

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

"The Freedman's Bureau"

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)

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)

Bust of Stephen Douglas over Northern Democratic Party's presidential campaign shield

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

A Family Quarrel, or the Reason Why.

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

James Buchanan surrounded by criminal quoting the Ostend Manifesto

The Ostend Doctrine

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

John Brown exhibiting his hangman

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Gen. William T. Sherman

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

Abraham Lincoln on the day of his speech at the Cooper Union

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)