Articles

Abraham Lincoln Invents Presidents Day (Winter 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
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)
The Endless Pull of Gettysburg (August/September 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
General Lee’s Daughters (July/August 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
“Your Brave and Early-Fallen Child…” (February/March 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 1)
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)
Lincoln's Boys (Spring 2018 | Volume: 63, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Test of Reconciliation in Terrible Times (November/December 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The O'Learys and the Great Chicago Fire (November 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 7)
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)
General Longstreet and the Lost Cause (February/March 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Massacre at Fort Pillow (November/December 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Robber Baronesses (December 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
How I Met Lincoln (July/August 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Digging Up Sunken Treasure Ships in the Missouri (April/May 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Are Our Liberties in Peril? (November/December 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 8)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Iron Wills, Iron Ships (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Slaughter on Cemetery Ridge (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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)
George Kennan Exposes Russian Cruelty in Siberia (Winter 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
When the Reaper Came Calling (Spring/Summer 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Abolitionist John Doy (Spring 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Power of Live Steam (April 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 2)
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)
Salmon Chase Saves the Union (Spring 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 2)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Central Fact of American History (February/March 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Importance of Mill Springs (Winter 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Antietam: America's Bloodiest Day (September 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 4)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Ghost at Harpers Ferry (November 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 7)
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Documents

Amnesty Oath
Amnesty Oath of Robert E. Lee
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)
Sioux Treaty
Sioux Treaty of 1868- Excerpts
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
John Brown Song
Glory hally, hallelujah! or The John Brown song. H. De Marsan, 54 Chatham Street, N.Y.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Treaty with the Apache 1852
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Grant Inauguration
First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
House proposing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution
Civil Rights Act 1866
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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)
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)
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)
Lincoln as They Saw Him by Herbert Mitgang- Excerpt
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln Address
Cooper Union Address
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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)

Historical Images

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)
Tragic Prelude
Tragic Prelude by John Steuart Curry
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)
Cartoon
An Heir to the Throne, Or the Next Republican Candidate
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Secession Movement Political Cartoon
The "Secession Movement"
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Freedmen's Bureau Cartoon
"The Freedman's Bureau"
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Photograph of Peter, a formerly enslaved man
Photograph of Peter, a formerly enslaved man
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln Photo
Abraham Lincoln on the day of his speech at the Cooper Union
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)