Articles

How Did Lincoln Die? (February/March 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 1)
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The Daring Escape of Frederick Douglass (Spring 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 2)
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Straight Talk from Camp Humbug (July/August 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 4)
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The Civil War's 150th is Heating Up (Winter 2011 | Volume: 60, Issue: 4)
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In the Defense of the Republic (Summer 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 2)
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The Fires of Norfolk (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
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Showdown at Sumter (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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Paying for the War (March 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 2)
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Libbie Custer (December 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 8)
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The Abolitionist John Doy (Spring 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 1)
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The Pony Rides Again (and Again) (Spring 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 1)
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The Herndon Climb Honors Heroism During Shipwreck (June 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 4)
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The Robber Baronesses (December 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 8)
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The Forgotten Triumph of the Paw Paw (October 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 6)
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How We Got Lincoln (November 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 7)
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Dred Scott: the Supreme Court's Worst Decision (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
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Grant Takes on the Klan ( | Volume: 1, Issue: 1)
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A Graceful Exit (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 Girls of Summer (July/August 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 4)
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Drake's Rock Oil (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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"Oh doctor, do what you can!" (Summer 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 2)
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A Rebel Remembers (November 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 7)
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The Treasure From The Carpentry Shop (December 1979 | Volume: 31, Issue: 1)
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The Freedman’s Bank (December 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 8)
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The Grand Junction at Promontory Summit (June/July 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 3)
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Juneteenth! (June 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 3)
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Remembering Bruce Catton (September 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 6)
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A Slave’s Audacious Bid for Freedom (Fall 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 5)
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Robert E. Lee’s “Severest Struggle” (Winter 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 1)
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John Wilkes Booth’s Other Victim (February/March 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 1)
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“Strong Enough to Float an Iron Wedge” (Winter 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 1)
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Historical Images

Dorothea Lange Photograph
Sign Near Tombstone, Arizona. Boot Hill Graveyard
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Map
U.S. Territorial Acquisition Map
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Infantry regiment
Infantry regiment in camp. [Probably 96th Pennsylvania Infantry at Camp Northumberland near Washington, DC, ca. 1861] Mathew Brady Collection. (Army) ca. 1861
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Lincoln print
The Union must and shall be preserved. For President Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. For Vice President Hannibal Hamlin of Maine.
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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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Stonewall Jackson
General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
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Political Cartoon
A Family Quarrel, or the Reason Why.
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Political Cartoon
Substance and Shadow Political Cartoon
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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
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Collections

Chromolithograph entitled "Custer's Last Fight," National Museum of American History
A Road They Did Not Know, by Larry McMurtry
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Historical Documents

Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation: Argentina and the U.S.
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
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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)
Mary Todd Lincoln letter
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln
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Lincoln and Hamlin Image
Book Review by Chandra Miller Manning
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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 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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