Articles

The Race Riots in Manhattan in 1863 (March 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Confederates Honored by the U.S. Army (June 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Simply a Man (February/March 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Little Bighorn (April 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Bringing Camels to the Southwest in 1855 (February/March 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln and the Navy (Winter 2009 | Volume: 58, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
“A Most Abandoned Hypocrite” (February/March 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
President Garfield is Shot (June/July 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 3)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Controversial Career of Col. Corcoran (November/December 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Annals of the Third House (April 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Search and Destroy (November 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Fires of Norfolk (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Herter Brothers (February/March 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Best Civil War Books (November/December 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Libbie Custer (December 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Unlike Clinton's Rich Guests, Lincoln Never Slept in "The Lincoln Bedroom" (July/August 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Girls of Summer (July/August 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
A Slave’s Audacious Bid for Freedom (Fall 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
"Oh doctor, do what you can!" (Summer 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Battle Of The Little Bighorn (Spring 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Rock of Chickamauga (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln’s Home Away from Home Reopens (Spring/Summer 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Ulysses S. Grant and the Whisky Frauds (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Exploring the Last Rebel Ground (April 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
“With Malice Toward None” (Winter 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Union Army's Unheralded Intelligence Czar (October 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Freedman’s Bank (December 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
‘We Were As Brothers’ (November 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
How to Become President (November 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Images

Map of the Union 1864
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)
Lincoln print
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)
William Sherman
Gen. William T. Sherman
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Woman Who Dared
The Woman Who Dared by Thomas Wust
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Infantry regiment
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)
Call for Black Homesteaders to Leave for Kansas
Benjamin Singleton- Recruitment of Black Homesteaders, 1878
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)

Historical Documents

This political cartoon illustrates James Buchanan beset by figures who employ quotes from the Ostend Manifesto to legitimize their criminal acts.
Ostend Manifesto
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Rochester Evening Express, Editorial
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Extradition Convention Between the United States and Austria-Hungary
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln Assassination Headline
Announcement to the Army of the Death of President Lincoln
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
John Brown Entrance Into Hell Song
John Brown's Entrance Into Hell.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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)
John L. O'Sullivan
John O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny
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)
Gadsden Purchase Treaty
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Reconstruction Amendments 1865-1870
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Republican Party Platform
National Republican platform adopted by National Republican Convention, held in Chicago. May 17, 1860.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Josephine and Wyatt Earp’s grave, Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, Colma, CA.
Josephine and Wyatt Earp- Article
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Collections

Chromolithograph entitled "Custer's Last Fight," National Museum of American History
A Road They Did Not Know, by Larry McMurtry
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lee surrenders
Why The Civil War Still Matters, by James McPherson
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Wyatt Earp
Who Was Wyatt Earp? by Allen Barra
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)