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Historical Documents

Joint Resolution Proposing a 13th Amendment to the Constitution

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)

Lincoln as They Saw Him by Herbert Mitgang- Excerpt

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)

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)

Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln

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

Texas Revolution

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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

A Plea for Captain John Brown- Excerpts

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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

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

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

John Brown: An Address

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

Reconstruction Amendments 1865-1870

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)

Amnesty Oath of Robert E. Lee

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)

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)

Book Review by Chandra Miller Manning

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

Ostend Manifesto

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

Cooper Union Address

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)

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)

Democratic Party Platform, June 18, 1860.

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)

New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”

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)

First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant

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)

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

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

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)

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)

Emancipation Proclamation 1863

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

The Liberator Comments on Nat Turner’s Insurrection

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Collections

Why The Civil War Still Matters, by James McPherson

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

America’s Oddest Election, by Harold Holzer

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)

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

"The Freedman's Bureau"

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

Infantry regiment in camp. [Probably 96th Pennsylvania Infantry at Camp Northumberland near Washington, DC, ca. 1861] Mathew Brady Collection. (Army) ca. 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)

Emancipation by Thomas Nast

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)

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

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

General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

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

John Brown exhibiting his hangman

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Tragic Prelude by John Steuart Curry

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

Gen. William T. Sherman

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