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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)

Texas Annexation Treaty

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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)

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)

Amendments Proposed in Congress by Senator John J. Crittenden

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

Democratic Party Platform, June 18, 1860.

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

John Brown's Entrance Into Hell.

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

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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

John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial

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

First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant

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)

Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln

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

Black Code

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Amnesty Oath of Robert E. Lee

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)

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)

Announcement to the Army of the Death of President Lincoln

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

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)

Court Proceedings and Testimony Regarding the Denmark Vesey Rebellion

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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)

The Liberator Comments on Nat Turner’s Insurrection

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Confessions of William Styron by Yvonne French

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Texas Revolution

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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)

Joint Resolution Proposing a 13th Amendment to the Constitution

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)

A Plea for Captain John Brown

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)

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)

“The Last Race of the Rail-Splitter,” Broadside, ca. 1861

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

Collections

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)

Lincoln at the Time of the Cooper Union Speech

Lincoln, the Orator by Harold Holzer

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

The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder

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

Children of Darkness, by Stephen B. Oates

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Nat Turner Revisited, by William Styron

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

The Slaves Freed, by Stephen Oates

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

Historical Images

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

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)

General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

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

Emancipation by Thomas Nast

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

The "Secession Movement"

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)

Tragic Prelude by John Steuart Curry

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

[Jefferson Davis dressed in women's clothing being captured in a tent by two Union soldiers as two women and an African American man look on] / Francis Hacker.

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

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

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Gen. William T. Sherman

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

A Family Quarrel, or the Reason Why.

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

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)