Historical Images

William Sherman
Gen. William T. Sherman
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Tragic Prelude
Tragic Prelude by John Steuart Curry
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Dodge City [Kans.] Peace Commissioners Camillus S. Fly, 1890
Dodge City [Kans.] Peace Commissioners Camillus S. Fly, 1890
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Map of the Union 1864
Bacon and Company, Map of the United States, showing the territory in possession of the Federal Union, January, 1864
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"Cowboys off the Trail" - statuary after painting by Frederic Remington, entrance to pike, World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo.
"Cowboys off the Trail" - statuary after painting by Frederic Remington, entrance to pike, World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo.
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Articles

Hero of the 20th (November 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 7)
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The Ten Best Civil War Films (August/September 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 4)
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The Emancipation Question (Summer 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 2)
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The Ghost at Harpers Ferry (November 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 7)
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When the Reaper Came Calling (Spring/Summer 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 4)
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Dred Scott: the Supreme Court's Worst Decision (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
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Lincoln’s Home Away from Home Reopens (Spring/Summer 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 4)
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The Blood on the Photo (April/May 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 2)
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Grant Takes on the Klan ( | Volume: 1, Issue: 1)
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The First Kansas Colored (February/March 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 1)
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A Slave’s Audacious Bid for Freedom (Fall 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 5)
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Drake's Rock Oil (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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‘We Were As Brothers’ (November 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 7)
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My Brush with Eternity (July/August 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 4)
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Heart Touched By Fire (Spring 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 2)
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High Stakes at Antietam (Summer 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 2)
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“The Tide is Setting Strongly Against Us” (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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The Herndon Climb Honors Heroism During Shipwreck (June 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 4)
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The First Chapter of Children’s Rights (July/august 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 5)
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Exploring the Last Rebel Ground (April 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 2)
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The Secret Six Behind Harpers Ferry (Fall 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 3)
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The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
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Stolen into Slavery (Fall 2020 George Washington Prize | Volume: 65, Issue: 8)
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Did Hayes Steal the Election from Tilden? (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
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A. Lincoln, Writer (September/October 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 6)
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The Greatest Diarist (March 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 2)
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How Did Lincoln Die? (February/March 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 1)
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Lincoln's Boys (Spring 2018 | Volume: 63, Issue: 1)
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Bruce Catton (Spring 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)
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USS Boondoggle (February/March 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 1)
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The Fires of Norfolk (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
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Historical Documents

Gadsden Purchase Treaty
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Letters from An American Farmer
Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Caroline Churchill
"Little Sheaves" Gathered While Gleaning After Reapers. Being Letters of Travel Commencing in 1870, and Ending in 1873
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Original Document of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
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Lincoln, Hollywood, and an Opportunity for Historians- Excerpt
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Homestead Act
Homestead Act (1862)
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A Plea for Captain John Brown
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New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”
New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”
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Fugitive Slave Bill Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
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Ticket
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
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Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton (left to right) lie dead after the gunfight.
OK Corral Inquest Transcript Found in Arizona Jailhouse Store Room
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Newspaper Image
Abraham Lincoln on he day of his speech at the Cooper Union The New York Daily Tribune, Tuesday, February 28, 1860
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Collections

Abraham Lincoln & Hannibal Hamlin
America’s Oddest Election, by Harold Holzer
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Lincoln at the Time of the Cooper Union Speech
Lincoln, the Orator by Harold Holzer
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