Articles

The Forgotten Catastrophe in Peshtigo (April/May 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
If Lincoln Hadn’t Died... (Winter 2009 | Volume: 58, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
A Lincoln Decoy (September 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Did Hayes Steal the Election from Tilden? (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
My Brush with Eternity (July/August 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Big Parade (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Creating the Ultimate Civil War Resource (July/August 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lee’s Greatest Victory (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Remembering Bruce Catton (September 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
From Civil War to Civil Rights (Summer 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
A Spirit and Power Far Beyond Its Letter (Summer 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Dred Scott: the Supreme Court's Worst Decision (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Civil War's 150th is Heating Up (Winter 2011 | Volume: 60, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Civil War’s Greatest Scoop (July/August 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 5)
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)
"Oh doctor, do what you can!" (Summer 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Caning Senator Sumner Nearly to Death in the Senate (September 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 5)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Showdown at Sumter (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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)
What Happened at Mountain Meadows? (October 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 7)
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)
Dear Mr. Lincoln … (February/March 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Trouble With the Bixby Letter (July/August 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 4)
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)
The Pony Rides Again (and Again) (Spring 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Blood on the Photo (April/May 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Forgotten Triumph of the Paw Paw (October 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 6)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Looking Back Without Anger (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Tales of a Gettysburg Guide (April 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Technological Turkeys (May/June 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Salmon Chase Saves the Union (Spring 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Crucial Role of Boston in the Civil War (April 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Emancipation Question (Summer 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
In Praise of Pierce (August/September 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 5)
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)

Historical Documents

Frederick Douglass Address Cover Page
John Brown: An Address
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln's address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery,
Gettysburg Address
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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)
Rep. Joe Courtney
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)
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)
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
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)
Lincoln and Hamlin Image
Book Review by Chandra Miller Manning
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Homestead Act
Homestead Act (1862)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Images

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)
Clara Barton
Miss Clara Barton
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)
Fire Insurance Map
1866 Fire Insurance Map of Tombstone, Ariz., Shows the O.K. Corral and Surrounding Streets
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Scene in the House on the passage of the proposition to amend the Constitution, January 31, 1865
Scene in the House on the passage of the proposition to amend the Constitution, January 31, 1865
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Three Pronged Movements in the Sioux Expedition of 1876
Three Pronged Movements in the Sioux Expedition of 1876
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