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ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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)

John Brown's Entrance Into Hell.

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)

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

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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)

The Confessions of William Styron by Yvonne French

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)

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

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

Texas Revolution

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

My Favorite Historical Novel by John Demos

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Jefferson Davis' Farewell Address

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)

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)

New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”

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

The Insurrection

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 Last Race of the Rail-Splitter,” Broadside, ca. 1861

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

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

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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)

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)

First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant

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)

Lincoln as They Saw Him by Herbert Mitgang- Excerpt

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)

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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

Black Code

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Historical Images

“The Battle-Cry of Freedom” with Confederate Lyrics

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)

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)

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg. A Harvest of Death

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)

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)

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)

Substance and Shadow Political Cartoon

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

John Brown exhibiting his hangman

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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)

Miss Clara Barton

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

Collections

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)