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A Family Quarrel, or the Reason Why.

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

"The Freedman's Bureau"

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

Emancipation by Thomas Nast

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)

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

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)

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. 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)

Gen. William T. Sherman

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)

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg. A Harvest of Death

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

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)

Historical Documents

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)

The Liberator Comments on Nat Turner’s Insurrection

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Lincoln as They Saw Him by Herbert Mitgang- Excerpt

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

A Plea for Captain John Brown

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

Texas Annexation Treaty

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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

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)

John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial

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

Reconstruction Amendments 1865-1870

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

“The Last Race of the Rail-Splitter,” Broadside, ca. 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)

Democratic Party Platform, June 18, 1860.

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)

Fugitive Slave Bill Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

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

Jefferson Davis' Farewell Address

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)

Amendments Proposed in Congress by Senator John J. Crittenden

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

Cooper Union 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)

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)

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 Insurrection

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)

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)

The Real Nat Turner by Dr. Molefi Kete Asante

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

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project

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

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)

Emancipation Proclamation 1863

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

Collections

The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

America’s Oddest Election, by Harold Holzer

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)

The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder

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

The Slaves Freed, by Stephen Oates

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

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)

Lincoln at the Time of the Cooper Union Speech

Lincoln, the Orator by Harold Holzer

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

Why The Civil War Still Matters, by James McPherson

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