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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)

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)

Court Proceedings and Testimony Regarding the Denmark Vesey Rebellion

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Black Code

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

American Progress by John Gast

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), Multiple Eras

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)

New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”

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

Timeline of Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922 (Excerpts)

ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Joint Resolution Proposing a 13th Amendment to the Constitution

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

List of Coroner's Jurors, Testimony of John H. Behan and clerk's cover and file sheet

Testimony of John H. Behan and Clerk’s Cover and File Sheet, 1881

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

Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology (Excerpt, page 18)

ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)

Nat Turner by T. Thomas Fortune

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

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)

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)

Emma Goldman's Deportation

ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Helen Keller, March 23, 1907

ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

Excerpt from Palmer's speech: "The Case Against the Reds"

ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)

P.V.H. Weems' Letter to Amelia Earhart

ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)

Frederick Jackson Turner- Short Biography

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

“Now for a Round-Up” by W.A. Rogers. This political cartoon was published in the New York Post following the passing of the 1901 Sedition Act, an updated revival of the original law that targeted Filipinos, Latin Americans, and union organizers.

Sedition Act of 1918

ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)

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)

Denver’s dean of cattle buyers, Lithuanian-born Robert Lazar Miller, on horseback.

Jewish Pioneers- Article

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

The Problem of the West

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

My Favorite Historical Novel by John Demos

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

John O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Lincoln, The Movie and Man- 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)

An outstanding picture of 1937 – tragedy. Photo by Acme Newspictures, Inc., 1937 Dec. 15.

Miss Earhart Forced Down at Sea, Howland Isle Fears; Coast Guard Begins Search

ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)

Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

Historical Images

A Breaking Scene of the Western Pioneers

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Emancipation by Thomas Nast

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

Signed Photograph of Amelia Earhart

ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)

Horrid Massacre in Virginia- Composite of scenes of Nat Turner’s rebellion

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Earhart's flight started in Oakland, California and made it all the way to Darwin, Australia. She was only 3 stops away from returning to Oakland when she disappeared.

Map of Amelia Earhart’s Final Flight Path

ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)

Cochise County Case No. 48. Coroner’s Transmittal Page to the Clerk of the District Court Cochise County

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

Alexander Graham Bell with Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan at the meeting of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, July 1894, in Chautauqua, N.Y

ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

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)

Call for Black Homesteaders to Leave for Kansas

Benjamin Singleton- Recruitment of Black Homesteaders, 1878

Dodge City [Kans.] Peace Commissioners Camillus S. Fly, 1890

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

Collections

How The Frontier Shaped The American Character, by Ray Allen Billington

A Nation of Immigrants, by Bernard Weisberger

ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), Multiple Eras

Children of Darkness, by Stephen B. Oates

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Amelia Found? by Tom D. Crouch

ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)

Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys

The Magazine that Taught Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Millay How to Write, by Paul Rosta

Multiple Eras, ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Nat Turner Revisited, by William Styron

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

Daniel Boone Escorting the American Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham

Pioneers In Petticoats, by Helena Huntington Smith

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Who Was Wyatt Earp? by Allen Barra

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

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)