Historical Documents

John Brown Entrance Into Hell Song
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Corwin Amendment
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Mary Todd Lincoln letter
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Doris Kearns Goodwin
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Thoreau
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Frederick Douglass Address Cover Page
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Liberator
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
This political cartoon illustrates James Buchanan beset by figures who employ quotes from the Ostend Manifesto to legitimize their criminal acts.
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Poem
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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 Assassination Headline
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Title Page
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Molefi Kete Asante
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
No Annexation of Texas
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Rail Splitter
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Amnesty Oath
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Broadside of John Brown's Last Speech
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln and Hamlin Image
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Fugitive Slave Bill Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
William Styron
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Images

James Buchanan surrounded by criminal quoting the Ostend Manifesto
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Tragic Prelude
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Freedmen's Bureau Cartoon
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Emancipation by Thomas Nast
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
William Sherman
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Political Cartoon
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Collections

The Statue of the Freed Slave
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lee surrenders
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
John Brown, the Abolitionist
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Nat Turner
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)