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ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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

Reconstruction Amendments 1865-1870

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)

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)

Book Review by Chandra Miller Manning

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

H.R.14 — 38th Congress (1863-1865)

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)

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

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

Emancipation Proclamation 1863

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)

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)

John Brown: An Address

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)

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)

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

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

Jefferson Davis' Farewell Address

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

Texas Annexation Treaty

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Joint Resolution Proposing a 13th Amendment to the Constitution

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

Amnesty Oath of Robert E. Lee

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)

My Favorite Historical Novel by John Demos

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Confessions of William Styron by Yvonne French

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)

The Liberator Comments on Nat Turner’s Insurrection

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)

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

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Texas Revolution

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Confessions of Nat Turner- Excerpt

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant

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)

Democratic Party Platform, June 18, 1860.

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

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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)

The Insurrection

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

Court Proceedings and Testimony Regarding the Denmark Vesey Rebellion

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Collections

Children of Darkness, by Stephen B. Oates

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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 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)

Nat Turner Revisited, by William Styron

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

Historical Images

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

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

“The Battle-Cry of Freedom” with Confederate Lyrics

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

Tragic Prelude by John Steuart Curry

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)

Gen. William T. Sherman

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)

The "Secession Movement"

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