Articles

The Abolitionist John Doy (Spring 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 1)
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Looking Back Without Anger (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
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All for the Union (May/June 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 3)
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“Your Brave and Early-Fallen Child…” (February/March 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 1)
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From Civil War to Civil Rights (Summer 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 2)
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She Kept the Nest (Fall 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 5)
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How We Got Lincoln (November 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 7)
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Financial Folklore (February/March 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 1)
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In Praise of Pierce (August/September 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 5)
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The Trouble With the Bixby Letter (July/August 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 4)
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The Haunted Major (February/March 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 1)
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Surprise Inscription Found on Lincoln's Watch (Summer 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 2)
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The Union Army's Unheralded Intelligence Czar (October 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 5)
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The Civilized Landscape (April/May 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 3)
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“The Tide is Setting Strongly Against Us” (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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“A Most Abandoned Hypocrite” (February/March 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 1)
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The Great Dismal Swamp (April/May 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 2)
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Drake's Rock Oil (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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John Wilkes Booth’s Other Victim (February/March 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 1)
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The Crucial Role of Boston in the Civil War (April 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 2)
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Lincoln Walks a Tightrope (Spring 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 2)
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How Did Lincoln Die? (February/March 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 1)
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Getting Right with Robert E. Lee (May/June 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 3)
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What They Did There (December 1954 | Volume: 6, Issue: 1)
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General Lee’s Daughters (July/August 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 4)
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The Terrible Price of Freedom (April 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 3)
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The Selling of Libby Prison (November 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 7)
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Was the Presidential Election Stolen? (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
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Massacre at Fort Pillow (November/December 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 7)
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Why the Civil War Still Matters (Spring 2011 | Volume: 61, Issue: 1)
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No Quarter: The Battle of The Crater, 1864, by Richard Slotkin (Fall 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 3)
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Ulysses S. Grant and the Whisky Frauds (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
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Historical Documents

Republican Party Platform
National Republican platform adopted by National Republican Convention, held in Chicago. May 17, 1860.
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Charleston Mercury Article
The Insurrection
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Hand written Emancipation Proclamation 1863
Emancipation Proclamation 1863
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Rochester Evening Express, Editorial
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Rep. Joe Courtney
Ahead of Oscars, Courtney asks Spielberg, DreamWorks to correct Lincoln inaccuracy that places Connecticut on wrong side of slavery debate
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A Gold Hunter's Experience
A Gold Hunter's Experience, Chalkley J. Hambleton
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)
Tobacco Admission Treaty Between the United States and Austria-Hungary
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Rail Splitter
“The Last Race of the Rail-Splitter,” Broadside, ca. 1861
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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)
Joint Resolution Submitting 13th Amendment to the States; signed by Abraham Lincoln and Congress Congress, Wednesday, February 01, 1865
Joint Resolution Submitting 13th Amendment to the States; signed by Abraham Lincoln and Congress Congress, Wednesday, February 01, 1865
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
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Frederick Douglass Address Cover Page
John Brown: An Address
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A Plea for Captain John Brown
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Sioux Treaty
Sioux Treaty of 1868- Excerpts
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Historical Images

Stonewall Jackson
General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
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Fire Insurance Map
1866 Fire Insurance Map of Tombstone, Ariz., Shows the O.K. Corral and Surrounding Streets
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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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Collections

The Statue of the Freed Slave
The Slaves Freed, by Stephen Oates
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