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Historical Documents

Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address, as read by Sam Waterston May 23, 2004

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Additional Article to the Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Lincoln, Hollywood, and an Opportunity for Historians- Excerpt

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

The Confessions of Nat Turner- Excerpt

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Glory hally, hallelujah! or The John Brown song. H. De Marsan, 54 Chatham Street, N.Y.

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Book Review by Chandra Miller Manning

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Nat Turner by T. Thomas Fortune

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), 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

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

S.123 - A Bill To abolish slavery throughout all the States and Territories of the United States.

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Democratic ticket. Our principals the Constitution. For President John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky For Vice President Joseph Lane of Oregon

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

My Favorite Historical Novel by John Demos

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Reconstruction Amendments 1865-1870

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

The Insurrection

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Court Proceedings and Testimony Regarding the Denmark Vesey Rebellion

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Real Nat Turner by Dr. Molefi Kete Asante

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Fugitive Slave Bill Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Pamphlet, John Brown’s "Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States"

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Ostend Manifesto

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Amendments Proposed by the Peace Conference, February 8-27, 1861

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

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)

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)

Fear of Insurrection: Chapter 12 of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Robert E. Lee’s Demand for the Surrender of John Brown and His Party

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Texas Annexation Treaty

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Gettysburg Dedication Day Ceremony a Naturalization Ceremony & remarks from Steven Spielberg

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

A Plea for Captain John Brown- Excerpts

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

John Brown's Entrance Into Hell.

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)

Argument of Roger S. Baldwin Before the Supreme Court in the Case of U.S. Appellants vs. Cinque, and Other, Africans of the Amistad

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Democratic Party Platform, June 18, 1860.

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Collections

America’s Oddest Election, by Harold Holzer

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Children of Darkness, by Stephen B. Oates

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Lincoln at the Time of the Cooper Union Speech

Lincoln, the Orator by Harold Holzer

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind

Hollywood History, by Mark C. Carnes

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Images

John Brown. Meeting the slave-mother and her child on the steps of Charlestown jail on his way to execution

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The National Game. Three "Outs" and One "Run" – Abraham Winning the Ball

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg. A Harvest of Death

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

The "Secession Movement"

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Abraham Lincoln on the day of his speech at the Cooper Union

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

"The Freedman's Bureau"

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Substance and Shadow Political Cartoon

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

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)

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)

Gen. William T. Sherman

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Bust of Stephen Douglas over Northern Democratic Party's presidential campaign shield

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)