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Colonial America

Archiving Early America
A Biography of America  English Settlement (1607-1691) - Annenberg-CPB
A Brief History Of Jamestown, Virginia
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism  1619-1789
Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy
DRY DRUNK The Culture of Tobacco in 17th- and 18th-century Europe
The Early American Review
Four Faces of Pocahontas
The Huguenot Historical Society (New Paltz, NY)
The Jamestown Records of the Virginia Company of London A Conservator's Perspective - by Sylvia R. Albro and Holly H. Krueger
Jamestown Rediscovery
John Winthrop
Map--Black-White Colonial America Outline Map  1776
Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline
Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map
The New Netherland Museum
Pictorial Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project and the Univ. of VA
Plymouth  Its History and Its People
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (LOC)
Resources on the Puritans
The Story of the Pilgrims
The Trial of Anne Hutchinson
Virtual Jamestown
Wills of the Mayflower Passengers
William Penn  Visionary Proprietor
A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
Principal Navigations, Voyages of the English Nation, III - Richard
First Virginia Charter
Instructions for the Virginia Colony
Various Laws of Jamestown
Reasons for Raising a Fund to Settle America on the Value of Colonies to England - Richard Hakluyt
The Starving Time - Capt. John Smith
Powhatan to John Smith
Second Virginia Charter
Third Virginia Charter
John Smith's Letter to Queen Anne Regarding Pocahontas
Laws Concerning Religion - Virginia General Assembly
Charter of New England
Charter of the Colony of New Plymouth Granted to William Bradford and His Associates
The Mayflower Compact
Letters of the Early Plymouth Settlers
The First Thanksgiving in Plymouth
An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company in England
The Sin and Danger of Self Love - sermon by Robert Cushman
Mourt's Relations - a journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth
Necessary Supplies for the Voyage to Virginia
Letter to His Parents - Richard Frethorne (indentured servant)
Generall Historie by John Smith (cover)
Images from John Smith's Generall Historie
Account of the Purchase of Manhattan - translation of the Peter Sschaghen letter
Charter of Massachusetts Bay
Reasons for the Plantation in New England - John Winthrop
The Salem Covenant
Laws Pertaining to Slaves and Servants, Virginia
The Divine Right to Occupy the Land - John Cotton
The Humble Request of the Puritan Emigrants
A Model of Christian Charity - John Winthrop
The True Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captain John Smith in Europe, Asia, Africa and America
Various documents on the Antinomian Controversy
Advertisements for the Inexperienced Planters of New England - Capt. John Smith
Letter from New England by Richard Saltonstall
Reasons for Emigrating to New England - John Winthrop
A Relation of the Successful Beginnings of the Lord Baltimore's Plantation in Maryland
Letter of Lord Baltimore to his brother, Leonard Concerning Catholicism in Maryland
The Glorious Work in Maryland, Father Andrew White, S.J.
The forme of a binding servant - an indentured contract
Passengers to Virginia
The Constitution of Plymouth Colony
John Cotton Condemns Democracy
John Winthrop's Testimony - the Boston Governor's account of his Christian experience
Account of the Pequot War
Essay Against the Power of the Church To Sit in Judgement on the Civil Magistracy by John Winthrop - a treatise indicating an e
The Examination of Mrs Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newton
Manners and Customs of the Indians of New England - Thomas Morton
Revels in New Canaan - Thomas Morton
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
New England's First Fruits - the first written history regarding the founding of Harvard College
The Massachusetts Body of Liberties
Massachusetts Bay School Laws
Harvard College Admission and Graduation Requirements
The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience - Roger WIlliams
George Gillespie refutes Roger Williams
A Plea for Religious Liberty - Roger Williams
On Liberty - John Winthrop
Against Toleration - Nathaniel Ward
The Simple Comler of Aggawam in America - Nathaneil Ward
Maryland Toleration Act
The Social Laws of Connecticut
Two poems by Anne Bradstreet
A declaration of the General Court of the Massachusets holden at Boston, in New-England, October 18, 1659. Concerning the exec
Sumptuary Laws in New England - laws regarding what one may and may not wear
British Navigation Acts - excerpts
Margaret Fell's letter to the King on the persecution of the Quakers
Connecticut Colony Charter
Indentured Servitude in Maryland
Will of Edward Garfield from Watertown, Massachusetts
Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina - John Locke
The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead, for Causing a Tumolt
Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary - painting by Freake Limner
The First Thanksgiving Proclamation
Proposals for the Carrying on the Negro's Christianity - Morgan Goodwyn
Petition for a Democratic Government - town of East-Hampton, Long Island
Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims - William Penn
Edward Randolph Condemns the Massachusetts Bay Company Before the Board of Trade
Frame of Government of Pennsylvania (2-2)
The Original Constitution of New York
Causes of King Phillip's War - Edward Randolph
Instructions to Sir Edmund Andros
On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law by Samuel Pufendorf - based law and right on natural law
Toleration Act of William and Mary
Governor Andros' Report
The Character of a Good Ruler - sermon by Samuel Willard
Discourses Concerning Government, Table of Contents by Algernon Sidney - built principles of popular government from foundation
Charter of Privileges Granted by William Penn, esq., to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania and Territories (10-28)
Bacon's Rebellion
The Black Presence -- Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable
The Church of England in Early America
Colonial American Newspapers
Colonial Currency
Colonial to 1800 -- American Literature
Cross Roads and Cross Rivers  Diversity in Colonial New York
The Diary, Correspondence, and Papers of Robert King Carter of Virginia  1701-1732
Early American Art
The First Great Awakening
The First Great Awakening - essay by Sarah Valkenburgh (Concord Review)
Frontier Homes (The History Channel)
Georgia Before Oglethorpe
How Did Slavery in America Begin
HudsonRiver.com
Introduction to the Free Speech Clause - the John Peter Zenger Case (Exploring Constitutional Conflicts)
Jonathan Edwards
King Philip's War   Cultural, Gender, and Historical Implications
Map--Native American Land Cessions (animated)
Map--Population Growth in English Colonies to 1775 (animated)
The Middle Colonies as the Birthplace of American Religious Pluralism
The Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, NY
The Peter Zenger Trial, 1735
Religion, Women, and the Family in Early America
The Quakers
The Quakers  An Introduction
Salem Witch Museum
The Salem Witch Trial of 1692
The Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692)
Sermons of John Whitefield
Spiritual Leaders of the Great Awakening
The Stono Rebellion
William Penn, Visionary Proprietor
Witchcraft in Salem Village
To My Dear and Loving Husband - poem by Anne Bradstreet
Lord Say and Sele - John Cotton Condemns Democracy
Transcript of the Trial of Anne Hutchinson
Slave Laws in Virginia
Witchcraft Trial in New York
Three poems by Anne Bradstreet (including To Her Loving Husband)
Declaration and Remonstrance - Governor William Berkeley
First Thanksgiving Proclamation (6-20)
King's Letter to the Duke of York
Nathaniel Bacon's Father Petitions the King
Nathaniel Bacon's Manifesto
Nathaniel Bacon's Oath of Fidelity
Royal Description of Nathaniel Bacon
The State of Virginia
Various documents on Bacon's Rebellion
The Author to Her Book - poem by Anne Bradstreet
Revolt of the Pueblo Indians (excerpts from several documents)
A Way to Get Wealth - Gervase Markham
A Letter from a Gentleman of the City of New York - on Leisler's Rebellion
From a gentleman of Boston to a friend in the countrey. [Signed] N. N. - broadside
Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke
Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions - Cotton Mather
Death Warrant of Bridget Bishop
The Examination and Confession of Ann Foster at Salem Village
Indictment of Bridget Bishop
Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692
Oral Examination of Bridget Bishop
Physical Examination of Bridget Bishop
Testimony Against Bridget Bishop
Transcripts of the Salem Witch Trials
Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits - Increase Mather
Wonders of the Invisible World - Cotton Mather
William Penn's Plan of Union
The Story of Squanto - Cotton Mather
The Selling of Joseph (a slave) - Samuel Sewall
Secret Diary of William Byrd
Boston News Letter (4 pages) - broadside
Governor Beverley on Bacon's Rebellion
Money and Trade Considered With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money - John Law
Curriculum of the Boston Latin Grammar School
Biennial Act
By the honourable Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq; Governour of His Majesty's Colony of Connecticut in New-England, a proclamation for
Some meditations concerning our honourable gentlemen and fellow-souldiers, in pursuit of those barbarous natives in the Narraga
The Black Code of Louisiana
Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity - Benjamin Franklin
An Englishman Tastes the Sweat of an African Slave - illustration by Serge Daget
Cotton Mather - engraving by Peter Pelham
A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper- Currency by Ben Franklin
Benjamin Franklin's Pursuit of Moral Perfection
Runaway Slave Notices - South Carolina Gazette
Founding Vision for Georgia - James Oglethorpe
 Poor Richard's Almanack - Benjamin Franklin (excerpts)
Defense of Peter Zenger - Andrew Hamilton
The Great Awakening in New Hampshire
Description of African Slavery
A Commons House of Assembly Committee Report, in a Message to the Governor's Council on the Stono Rebellion slave catchers (11-
Report from William Bull regarding the Stono Rebellion (10-5)
The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry - Sermon by Gilbert Tennent
The Future Punishment of the Wicked - sermon by Jonathan Edwards
This indenture made the ninth day of September Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and forty . by and between [blank] on th
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - sermon by Jonathan Edwards (7-8)
Against Revivalism - Charles Chauncy
Jonathan Edwards, from Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England
Rules for Civility - George Washington
On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants - Gottlieb Mittelberger
The Defense of Slavery in Virginia
Broadside Announcing the Sale of Slaves
Letter of the Quaker woman, Increase Woodward to her son
The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by the Legislature of Great Britain, briefly consider'd - Soame Jenyns
America's Historic Lakes--Lake Champlain and Lake George Historical Sites
Benjamin Franklin   A Documentary History
A Biography of America  The Coming of Independence (1763-1783) - Annenberg-CPB
A Biography of America  Growth & Empire (1663-1763) - Annenberg-CPB
The Boston Massacre Trials, 1770
Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation
Equiano Background, Experiences, and Travel
Fighting for a Continent Newspaper Coverage of the English and French War For Control of North America, 1754-1760
The Gaspee Virtual Archives
The French and Indian War's Impact on America
Historic Philadelphia
On the Trail of the Last of the Mohicans
Rice, Indigo, and Fever in Colonial South Carolina
Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia
Molasses Act (5-17, 28)
Transcript of the Trial of Peter Zenger
Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England - Jonathan Edwards
The Cry of Oppression - Sermon by Nathaniel Appleton
An Evaluation of French Military Power
Albany Plan of Union
In Defense of a Plan for Colonial Union by Benjamin Franklin - arguments in favor of the Albany Plan of Union
Join or Die - political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin in the Pennsylvania Gazette (5-9)
Extract of a letter from Will's Creek (7-10)
French Account of General Braddock's Defeat
Poems for Soldiers - French & Indian War
The Curse of Cowardice - a sermon by Samuel Davies
General Townshend's Report on the Fall of Quebec
Rules of Rogers' Rangers
Standing Orders for Rogers' Rangers
Against the Writs of Assistance - James Otis
Enlistment Papers
The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England - Governor Glen
The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved - James Otis
Royal Proclamation of 1763
Writ of Assistance (10-7)
The Running of Mason and Dixon's Line
Currency Act
Sugar Act
The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Approved - James Otis
The Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress
Excerpt from the Diary of John Adams (12-18)
The Governor of Massachusetts Bay issues a Proclamation against Rioters
Join or Die -
The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by the Legislature of Great Britain - Soames Jenyns
A Patriotic Advertisement
Quartering Act
Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress
Stamp Act
Declaratory Act
The Repeal or the Funeral Procession of Miss America-Stamp - political cartoon by Benjamin Wilson
William Pitt's Speech on the Stamp Act
Townsend Act
Letter 2 from John Dickinson's Letters of a Pennsylvania
Letter 4 from John Dickinson's Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer
The Daughters of Liberty - anonymous poem
Massachusetts Circular Letter (2-11)
Virginia Non-Importation Resolutions
Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre
The Bloody Massacre - engraving by Paul Revere
The Boston Massacre - Boston Gazette and Country Journal
Captain Thomas Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre
The Rights of the Colonists 
Tea Act
Tea Destroyed by Indians - son lyrics-broadside
Administration of Justice Act
The Boston Massacre Oration - John Hancock (3-5)
Boston Port Act
The Bostonians in Distress - copy of mezzotint attributed to Philip Dawe, London
The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering - copy of mezzotint attributed to Philip Dawe
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
A genuine letter from a well-known patriot at St. James's to his friend in Boston, relative to the present distracted state of
Letter of Abigail Adams to John Adams
Massachusetts Government Act
Olive Branch Petition
Petition of A Grate Number of Blackes of the Province to Governor Thomas Gage and the Members of the Massachusetts General Co
A Plan for the Union of Great Britain and the Colonies - Joseph Galloway
A protest entered into by nine patriotic members of the House of Lords, against the address of that House to the King, present
Quebec Act
A Summary View of the Rights of British America - Thomas Jefferson
African Slavery in America - Thomas Paine

American Revolution

America's Wars--The American Revolution
The American Revolution
Archiving Early America
Benjamin Franklin   A Documentary History
A Biography of America  The Coming of Independence (1763-1783) - Annenberg-CPB
Black Loyalists
Causes of the American Revolution - essay by Steve Wilkins (2 pages)
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism  1619-1789
Colonial Currency
Colonial to 1800 -- American Literature
Cross Roads and Cross Rivers  Diversity in Colonial New York
Declaring Independence  Drafting the Documents
Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention  1774-1789
Drums Along the Mohawk  The American Revolution on the New York Frontier
Early American Art
The Execution of Nathan Hale, 1776
Flags of the American Revolution
George Washington (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
George Washington's Mount Vernon
The Great Seal of the United States -- First Great Seal Committee (1776)
Historic Philadelphia
Historic Valley Forge
Indians and the American Revolution - essay by Wilcomb E. Washburn
John Adams (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
John Bull and Uncle Sam  Four Centuries of British-American Relations (American Revolution)
Journals of the Continental Congress (34 volumes)
Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Loyalist and British Songs & Poetry of the American Revolution
A Loyalist Regiment (MD) in the American Revolution
Map--Black-White Colonial America Outline Map  1776
Map--The Main States 1776-1800
Map--The Revolutionary War Opens at Lexington and Concord in April 1775 (animated)
Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline
Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map
Mercantilism in Practice and the (Resulting) American Revolution - Carole E. Scott
New Jersey During the Revolution
The Papers of George Washington
Prelude to Revolution (timeline)
Religion and the American Revolution
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (LOC)
Spy Letters of the American Revolution
Thomas Jefferson Papers - Library of Congress
Thomas Paine - biography and links
Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue - extensive site on the American Revolution
Virtual Marching Tours of the American Revolution
Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia
What was happening in the rest of the world during the American
The Writing of the Declaration of Independence
Free America - a Revolutionary song by Joseph Warren
he Captivity of Jonathan Alder (1773-1849) and His Life with the Indians  (full text)
God Save the Thirteen Colonies - a Revolutionary song (anonymous author)
Yankee Doodle - song lyrics (anonymous)
The Rifleman's Song at Bennington - song lyrics of Vermont Patriots
The King's speech to both houses of Parliament, on the 30th of November
Suffolk Resolves
The address of the Lords and Commons to his Majesty, on the present state of America - broadside
The Battle of Bunker Hill - Major-General John Burgoyne to Lord Stanley
The Battle of Bunker Hill - British song lyrics
The Charlotte Town Resolves
Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms - John Dickinson & Thomas Jefferson
First-Hand Account of the Midnight Ride - Paul Revere
The Farmer Refuted - Alexander Hamilton
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech - Patrick Henry
His Majesty's most gracious speech to both houses of Parliament, on Friday, 10-27 - broadside
The King's Own Regulars - traditional song lyrics from the British soldier's point of view
Letter on Doubts About Independence - Abigail Adams
Novanglus No. 7 - John Adams (Jan.) - using his pen name, Adams writes a response to a Loyalist
New England Restraining Act (3-30)
On Civil Liberty, Passive Obedience, and Nonresistance - Jonathan Boucher
A Proclamation, by The King, for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition
A Report on Indian Affairs - Articles of Confederation Congress (7-12)
A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina - political cartoon by Philip Dawe, London
Speech on Conciliation with America - Sir Edmund Burke
A View of the Controversy Between Great Britain and Colonies by a Westchester Farmer, Samuel Seabury
William Pitt's Speech on the Stamp Act
Excerpts from the Journal of John Paul Jones
Actual Page from The Boston Gazette (10-7-1776)
The American Crisis, I - Thomas Paine in Common Sense
American Independence - Samuel Adams (8-1)
The Battle of Trenton
The Capture and Execution of Capt. Nathan Hale - a letter from Hale's Sergeant, Stephen Hempstead
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
Concord Town Meeting Resolution
The Constitution of Pennsylvania
The Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson
Diary of a Revolutionary Army Physician
Draft Constitution for Virginia - Thomas Jefferson
Fragment of an original letter on the slavery of the negroes; written in the year 1776, by Thomas Day, Esq. - broadside
Halifax Resolve
An intercepted original letter from General Washington to his Lady, in the year 1776 (1-24) - broadside
John Adams to Abigail Adams - letter (7-3)
Letter and Poem to General Washington - Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet
Letter to Congress on Recruiting & Maintaining an Army - George Washington
Life in the Colonial Army- Captain Georg Pausch
Plain Truth - a Loyalist pamphlet by James Chalmers (Candidus)
Reading of the Declaration of independence White Plains, July 11, 1776 (From a painting by George Albert Harker - Courtesy West
The Recruiting Service - Captain Alexander Graydon
Resolution introduced in the Continental Congress by Richard Henry Lee (Virginia) proposing a Declaration of Independence
Resolution of a Concord, MA Town Meeting
Rights of Women in an Independent Republic - letter of Abigail Adams to John Adams (Mar. 31, Apr. 14, May 26)
Thomas Jefferson's Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence
Thoughts on Government - John Adams
The True Interest of America Impartially Stated - Charles Inglis
Virginia Declaration of Rights - George Mason
An Account of the Battle of Princeton
Articles of Confederation
Constitution of New York
The first prayer in Congress. In Thatcher's military journal, under date of December 1777, is found a note containing the iden
From the Diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge - Albigence Waldo
Hessian Account of the Battle of Saratoga
John McKinly Writes to his Wife Jenny
Major-General Burgoyne to his nieces after the Battle of Saratoga
Petition of Blacks to the Massachusetts General Court for an end to slavery
Statute of Religious Freedom - Thomas Jefferson
Letter of Mrs. Hannah Corbin
Letters from Valley Forge
Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the U. S. & France
Treaty with the Delawares
Treaty with France
A Bill Concerning Slaves - Thomas Jefferson
Draft for a Bill Establishing Religious Freedom - Thomas Jefferson
The American Crisis - Thomas Paine
Blacks Petition Against Taxation Without Representation (3-14)
Letter from Benedict Arnold to the inhabitants of North America as reported in The London Gazette (11-11-14-1780)
Letter from Benedict Arnold to Major John André (7-12) - decoded
Letter from Benedict Arnold to Major John André (7-15) - decoded
Letter from Benedict Arnold to George Washington pleading for mercy for his wife (9-25)
The Sentiments of an AMERICAN WOMAN
A Sermon on the Day of the Commencement of the Constitution - Rev. Samuel Cooper
Washington's Headquarters  - François Jean, Marquis de Chastellux
Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown
Diary of Ebenezer Denny - on the surrender of Cornwallis
Excerpt from the Diary of Miss Anna Rawle
Glorious intelligence! [Announcement of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis] - broadside
The Norfolk Chronicle
Notes on the State of Virginia - Thomas Jefferson (full text)
Origin and Progress of the American Revolution - Peter Oliver
The Surrender of Cornwallis
Commerce between Master and Slave - Thomas Jefferson
Contract Between the King & the Thirteen United States of North America
Letters from an American Farmer -
Preliminary Articles of Peace Between the U. S. & Britain
“What Is an American J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur
Address to Congress on Resigning his Commission - George Washington
A Committee Reports on Import Duties - Articles of Confederation Congress
Declarations for Suspension of Arms and Cessation of Hostilities Signed at Versailles
Full Restitution in Congress - Articles of Confederation Congress (11-1)
Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson
Newburgh Conspiracy and George Washington's Reply
Washington's Farewell to the Troops
Resolution of the Continental Congress regarding enemy property (1-14)
Report on Government for the Western Territories - Thomas Jefferson
Commissioners Authorized to Form Treaties with Indian Tribes - Articles of Confederation Congress
Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams
George III Laments the Loss of the American Colonies
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill on 17 June, 1775 - painting by John Trumbull
My Kinsman, Major Molineux - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Concord Hymn - poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paul Revere's Ride - poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Early Republic

The American Revolution (PBS)
The Apotheosis of George Washington
A Biography of America  A New System of Government (1776-1826) - Annenberb-CPB
The Birth of the Nation  The First Federal Congress, 1789-1791
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism  1619-1789
Colonial to 1800 -- American Literature
The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution
Delegates to the Constitution Convention
Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention  1774-1789
Early American Art
George Washington (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
George Washington (2) - POTUS site
George Washington's Mount Vernon
George Washington's Papers
John Adams (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
John Adams (2) - POTUS site
Journals of the Continental Congress (34 volumes)
Journals of Lewis and Clark
Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Lewis and Clark (PBS series)
Madison's Treasures
Map--Growth of the United States to 1853
Map--Redrawing the Nation's Boundaries  1783-1826
Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline
Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--The Vote to Ratify the Constitution
Martha Ballard's Diary  1785-1812
Mt. Vernon--Washington's Estate and Gardens (Official Site)
An Outline of American Government (U. S. Information Agency site)
The Papers of George Washington
The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787
Religion and the Founding of the American Nation (LOC)
Report of the Research Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
The Rise and Fall of Alexander Hamilton
Temple of Liberty  Building the Capitol for a New Nation
Thomas Jefferson (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
Search Engine to peruse the documents of the Early Republic
The Signers of the Constitution
Thomas Jefferson Papers - Library of Congress
Thomas Paine - biography and links
The Unwritten Constitution
Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia
Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet, to the students of the University of Cambridge in New England (Harvard)
An act to preserve the freedom and independence of this State, and for other purposes therein mentioned - New York, passed Ma
Reason The Only Oracle Of Man - Ethan Allen
Resolutions Concerning Foreign Commerce - Articles of Confederation Congress (4-30)
Disposing of Lands in the Western Territories - Articles of Confederation Congress
Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson describing the cordial greeting he received from King George III as the first Americ
Memorial and Remonstrance - James Madison
The Barbary Treaties
The Grand Committee on the Subject of the Western Territory
Instructions to Superintendents of Indian Affairs - Articles of Confederation Congress (8-7)
Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom
The Address and reasons of dissent of the minority of the convention, of the state of Pennsylvania, to their constituents (12-1
The Boston Plan
The Contrast -- A Comedy in Five Acts written by a Citizen of the United States, Royall Tyler
Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy - Benjamin Franklin
Disapproving and Accepting the Constitution - Benjamin Franklin
Drafts of the Constitution of the United States (8-6)
Elbridge Gerry's Reasons for Not Signing the Federal Constitution
The Federalist Papers (in its entirety)
Federalist Papers #10 - James Madison
Federalist Papers #21- Hamilton on the weaknesses of the
Am I Not a Man and a Brother - Quaker-created seal
Letter from Henry Knox to George Washington
Letter from James Madison to General Washington
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison
Madison's Notes on the Debates at the Federal Convention
New Jersey and Virginia Plans
Northwest Ordinance
Notes of Alexander Hamilton in the Federal Convention of 1787
Ordinance for Settling Accounts Between the U. S. and Individual States - U. S. Congress (5-7)
Plan of Charles Pinckney (SC) Presented to the Federal Convention
State House Yard Speech on the Constitution - James Wilson (10-6)
Thomas Jefferson's drawing of a macaroni machine and instructions for making pasta
Thoughts on Female Education - Benjamin Rush
The U. S. Constitution and Amendments
The Antifederalist Papers
The Signing of the Declaration of Independence - painting by John Trumbull
Mrs. Mary Dewees' Journal from Philadelphia to Kentucky
Address to the People of the State of New York - John Jay
Alexander Hamilton on the Adoption of the Constitution
Answering Patrick Henry - Francis Corbin's speech given at the Virginia Convention considering the ratification of the propos
Extract from an Address to the people of the state of New-York, on the subject of the federal Constitution
Federal Superstructure -
Federalist Papers #41 - James Madison
Letter from Mrs. Anne Randolph to St. George Tucker, On Marriagee
An ode for the 4th of July 1788 - [Philadelphia] Printed by M. Carey
Order of Procession In Honor of the Establishment of the Constitution of the United States
Patrick Henry's Speech (6-14)
Ratification of the Constitution by the State of New York
Slave Trade and the Middle Passage - Alexander Falconbridge
Treaty with the Cherokee (11-28)
An act to establish the seat of government of the United States - broadside
Address of the Senate to President Washington
Amendments to the U. S. Constitution that were never ratified
The Bill of Rights
First Twelve Articles of Amendment (6-8)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African
Judiciary Act of 1789
Procession. Boston. Oct. 19, 1789. As this town is shortly to be honoured with a visit from the President of the United States
Thomas Tudor Tucker to St. George Tucker, The Dangers of the New Constitution
Treaty with the Six Nations
Washington's First Inaugural Address
Excerpts from the Journal of William Maclay
Actual Page from The Massachusetts Sentinel (4-24-1790)
Census Data
Congress of the United States. In Senate, July the12 th, 1790. The committee appointed July the 2d, 1790, reported as follows
First State Annual Message of George Washington
Letter from George Washington to the Senate on Cherokee Affairs (8-11)
Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport, RI - George Washington
On the Equality of the Sexes - Judith Sargent Murray
Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Residency Bill - Thomas Jefferson
Second Annual Message of George Washington
[William Maclay], For the Independent Gazetteer
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (full text)
Hamilton's Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States
An Introductory Lecture To a Course of Law Lectures - James Wilson
From the Daily advertiser. Thoughts on coinage, and the establishment of a mint, submitted to the consideration of those state
Jefferson Argues against the Constitutionality of a National Bank
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker expressing his belief that blacks possess talents equal to those of other co
Third Annual Message of George Washington
Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson, We are all of the Same Family
Coinage Act
Fourth Annual Message of George Washington
Letter from Alexander Hamilton to George Washington
The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
Fifth Annual Message of George Washington
Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
Letter from George Hammond to Thomas Jefferson - re Jay Treaty
Thomas Jefferson to William Short
Letter of Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond (1) - re Jay Treaty
Proclamation of Neutrality
Second Inaugural Address - George Washington
A Display of the United States - line engraving by Amos Doolittle
Age of Reason - Thomas Paine (Part I)
Jay Treaty (and ancillary documents)
Letter from George Washington to his VP, John Adams
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison on the Whiskey Rebellion
Sixth Annual Message of George Washington
Thomas Jefferson's design for a plow
The Whiskey Rebellion - Proclamation by President Washington
11th. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
Age of Reason - Thomas Paine (Part II)
Farmer's Almanack Pages
Greenville Treaty with Several Indian Tribes
Horatius to the People of the United States
Plan of the City of Washington
Seventh Annual Message of George Washington
Treaty of Greenville (8-3)
Treaty of Tripoli
Eighth Annual Message of George Washington
First Annual Message of John Adams
Inaugural Address of John Adams
Refusing the Paris Monster - political cartoon
Speech on the XYZ Affair - President John Adams
11th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
Alien Act
Alien and Sedition Acts
Brief account of the Society for propagating the gospel among the Indians and others in North-America - pamphlet
Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor
Second Annual Message of John Adams
The Sedition Act - song lyrics (anonymous)
Virginia Resolution
Washington's Farewell Address
Kentucky Resolution
Law Will and Testament of George Washington
A New Display of the United States - engraving by Amos Doolittle
The Petition of the People of Colour, Freemen within the City, and Suburbs of Philadelphia
Third Annual Message of John Adams
The Beginnings of the City of Washington, DC - Abigail Adams
John Adams' Letter to Abigail Adams - prayer for the new executive mansion
Various Documents Pertaining the the Convention of France
Message to the Senate - John Adams

Jeffersonian Republicanism

Aaron Burr's Trial
America's Wars--The War of 1812
American Women of the Early 19c
A Biography of America  A New System of Government (1776-1826) - Annenberb-CPB
Casebook  The War of 1812
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism  1790-1829
Clothing of the 1830s
Documents from the War of 1812
The Dolley Madison Project
The Duel (The American Experience PBS series)
Duel at Dawn, 1804 - Hamilton vs. Burr
The Early Postal System
James Madison (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
James Madison (2) - POTUS site
James Monroe (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
James Monroe (2) - POTUS site
Jefferson on Slavery
John Bull and Uncle Sam  Four Centuries of British-American Relations (From Enemy to Ally)
John Quincy Adams (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
John Quincy Adams (2) - POTUS site
Lewis & Clark  The Journey of the Core of Discovery (PBS)
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition - Documents
Lewis and Clark in the Rockies
Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Map--Election Results for 1800
Map--Growth of the United States to 1853
Map--Louisiana Purchase
Map--The Missouri Compromise
Map--Redrawing the Nation's Boundaries  1783-1826
Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline
Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--The War of 1812 (1)
Map--The War of 1812 (2)
Martha Ballard's Diary  1785-1812
Mystic Seaport & Maritime Museum - Official Site
Monticello
National Road - Route 40
The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals
Paintings of the War of 1812
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (LOC)
The Star Spangled Banner -- The Flag that Had Inspired the National Anthem
Thomas Jefferson (LOC)
Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government
Thomas Jefferson (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
Thomas Jefferson (2) - POTUS site
The War of 1812 Website
Women in America  1820-1842
Young America Art Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gabriel's Conspiracy - assorted documents
State v. Boon
First Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson
First Inaugural Address - Thomas Jefferson
Margaret Bayard Smith Meets Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson's Wall of Separation Letter (1-1)
Second Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson
The Constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase - Thomas Jefferson to John C. Breckinridge
The following resolution passed the House of representatives on Wednesday last, and the senate yesterday. [Regarding the free n
Letter from President Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis
Louisiana Purchase and Associated Documents
Marbury v. Madison
Speech Opposing the Louisiana Purchase - Senator Samuel White
Third Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson
12th. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
An Act to Abolish Slavery - pamphlet
Black Laws of Ohio
Fourth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson
Letter on Presidential Appointments (midway down the page)- Abigail Adams
to Governor Claiborne
The Republican. No. II - Fisher Ames
Excerpt from the Journal of Lewis and Clark
Fifth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson
Indian speech, delivered before a gentleman missionary, from Massachusetts, by a chief, commonly called by the white people Re
Lewis and Clark Reach the Pacific Ocean
New England Primer
Second Inaugural Address - Thomas Jefferson
Treaty of Vincennes (1-21)
Account of a Connecticut Camp Meeting
Sixth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson
An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves
A narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Johnson containing an account of her sufferings, during four years, with the Indians and
Remarks on the slave-trade ... Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, No. 362 Pearl-Street - broadside
Seventh Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson
The Stranger in America Containing Observations Made During a Long Residence in that Country - Charles William Janson
Subpoena served on Thomas Jefferson to testify at Aaron Burr's trial for treason (6-13)
The constitution. Fellow-citizens of New-Hampshire. At an awful crisis, at a momentous period of our political existence we ad
Dignified patriotism. Extract from the Hon. Mr. Hillhouse's speech, in the Senate of the U. States, against the passing of the
Eighth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson
A Thanksgiving Sermon by Absalom Jones
Washington's Black Code
First Inaugural Address - James Madison
American Shakers broadside (early 1800s)
Census Data for the Year 1810
Fletcher v. Peck
Portrait of Absalom Jones - painting by
The Debate over War in Congress
Journal of a Voyage Up the Mississippi River - Henry Marie Brackenridge
Let every Federalist do his duty, and Massachusetts will yet be saved!!! Federal republicans!,  Boston (April) - broadside
The American Debate Over the War of 1812
Documents for Debate on Going to War in 1812
Economic Nationalism and Sectionalism Commissioners' Report
Gerrymander - an anonymous political cartoon
James Madison Speech to a Joint Session of Congress
Prompt patriotism. At a convention of republican delegates, consisting of one hundred and forty-two members, from fifty one tow
Songs and Lyrics of the War of 1812
U. S. v. Hudson and Goodwin
The War of 1812 - assorted documents of the war
Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri - John C. Luttig
Naval Battle Between the United States and the Macedonian on October 30, 1812- a painting by Thomas Birch
Second Inaugural Address - James Madison
Amendments to the Constitution as Proposed by the Hartford Convention
Star Spangled Banner Lyrics
The Treaty of Ghent
A Convention to Regulate the Commerce - Britain & the U. S.
Excerpt from the Memoirs of Susan Mansfield Huntington
Glorious news from New Orleans! Splendid victory over the British forces Essex, Register Office. 2-9 - broadside
Jackson's letter describing the Battle of New Orleans
John Adams Letter to George Washington Adams and John Adams 2d (5-3) - preserve all that you write
Liberty and Peace - song lyrics
Memoirs of Susan Mansfield Huntington of MA - excerpts
The Barbary Treaties
John Bigelow, Inaugural Address
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer regarding the Dartmouth College case (7-21)
Excerpt from the Cotton Book of G. W. Lovelace
First Inaugural Address - James Monroe
Opening of the New York to Liverpool Packet Line
Rush-Bagot Agreement
About the Banks - Hezekiah Niles in Niles' Weekly Register (11-7)
Circular letter regarding the establishing of Sunday schools in Boston
Curriculum for the University of Virginia - Thomas Jefferson
John Taylor, Arator Being a Series of Agricultural Essays,
Observations on the Real Rights of Women
The Sally Hemmings Accusation Against Thomas Jefferson - article by James T. Callender
Adams-Onis Treaty
American State Papers, Military Affairs, Description of the United States Armory at Springfield, Massachusetts
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Extract from the Albany Daily Advertiser
McCulloch v. Maryland
Tallmadge's Speech to Congress
Census Data for the Year 1820
Charles Pickney's Speech to Congress
Compromise of 1820 - Tallmadge Amendment
Compromise of 1820 - Taylor's Amendment
Compromise of 1820 - Thomas's Amendment
Cotton Boom in Alabama and Mississippi
James Madison - in his own word - excerpts from 1820s to his death
John Quincy Adams & John C. Calhoun Discuss the Compromise of 1820
The Missouri Compromise
Missouri Enabling Act
Record of the US Senate Debate on the Admission of Missouri
Sectionalism and the Missouri Compromise - Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, 22 April 1820 - Writings of Thomas
Taylor Amendment (1-26)
Thomas Amendment (2-17)
Cohens v. Virginia
Second Inaugural Address - James Monroe
Thomas Jefferson's Biography (excerpts) - views on slavery
Warning Against the Search for Monsters to Destroy - John Quincy Adams
British Foreign Secretary George Canning's Overture for a Joint Declaration with the United States on the Spanish Colonies in A
John Quincy Adams's Account of the Cabinet Meeting of 11-7
Joshua & Sally Wilson Letters to George Wilson
Monroe Doctrine
Monroe Letter to Jefferson Seeking Foreign Policy Advice
Thomas Jefferson on the Monroe Doctrine (10-24)
Gibbons v. Ogden
Notices & Advertisements from the New York Evening Post
First Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adam
Good Jackson Times. Farmers are doing well- of course every other man must do well - broadside
Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Henry Lee
Death of Adams & Jefferson on the Same Day
Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Roger C. Weightman
The First African American Newspaper Appears - from
The Election of 1828 as Seen from New York City
SC's Protest Against the Tariff of 1828 - John C. Calhoun's speech
The Battle of New Orleans - lyrics by Johnny Driftwood (with audio file)
The American Whig Party - Hal Morris (essay)

Jacksonian Era

The Alexis de Tocqueville Tour
America's First Look into the Camera  Daguerreotype Portraits and Views (1839-1864)
The Amistad Case (NARA)
The Amistad Trials  1939-1840
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
Andrew Jackson (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
Andrew Jackson (2) - POTUS site
Andrew Jackson and the Bank War - Tony D'Urso (essay)
A Brief History of Central Banking in the United States - Edward Flaherty (essay)
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism  1830-end
The Defeat of the Second Bank of the United States--Rationale and Effects by Gareth Davis
Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville (C-SPAN)
de Tocqueville's America A Virtual Tour
Differences Between the 1st. & 2nd. American Political Party Systems
Early American Art
Everyday Life in 1831
Exploring Amistad (Mystic Seaport)
Fine Art & Paper Money in Jacksonian America
Hanna Hoes Van Buren
The Hermitage--Home of Andrew Jackson
The Hudson River School (Artcyclopedia) - large links of artists & their works
Hudson River School of Painting (1)
Hudson River School of Painting (2)
Jacksonian America
Jacksonian Democracy-America's Indians - detailed lecture notes
Jacksonian Miscellanies
John Tyler (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
John Tyler (2) - POTUS site
Julia Gardiner Tyler
Letitia Christian Tyler
Let's Go America! - European Travelers in the U. S. (1830-1840)
Louisa Catherine Adams
Map--Growth of the United States to 1853 (User Name is George Password is Washington)
Map--Removal of the American Indian
Map--The Trail of Tears
Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline
Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map
Martin Van Buren (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
Martin Van Buren (2) - POTUS site
Mystic Seaport & Maritime Museum - Official Site
National Road - Route 40
Native American History
The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals
The Papers of President Andrew Jackson (Avalon Project)
Rachel Donelson (Robards) Jackson
Readings in Jacksonian America
The Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears Website
William Henry Harrison (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
William Henry Harrison (2) - POTUS site
Women in America  1820-1842
Young America Art Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Various documents on the removal of the Cherokee Nation
Good Jackson Times. Farmers are doing well- of course every other man must do well - broadside
Jackson blasphemy. The following hymn to Jackson was sung and danced round the Hickory idols in the upper wards by the devotees
Dreadful riot on Negro Hill! O read wid detention de melancholly tale and he send you yelling to your bed [Cut] Copy of an inte
Murder will out !! Truth is mighty and shall prevail! Four years ago I charged General Andrew Jackson, in an address printed a
Daniel Webster Anticipates Jackson's Arrival in Washington, D.C.
Executive Order Regarding Military Pensions - Andrew Jackson
First Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson
First State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Jackson Announces His Policy of Rotation in Office - speech
Letter from Mrs. Barney to Gen. Jackson. Baltimore (6-13) - broadside
Letter from Nicholas Biddle to Josiah Nichol (about govt. interference)
Margaret Bayard Smith Describes the Inaugural Celebration
The Return of Rip Van Winkle - painting by John Quidor
Census Data for the Year 1830
Charles Finney Recalls his Days in Oneida County, New York
Cherokee Indian Removal Debate - U.S. Senate, April 15-17, 1830
Chicksaw Treaty
The Georgia Gold Rush - From the Niles' Weekly Register. XXXIX; 995 (10-9)
President Jackson Reports on Indian Removal - speech to Congress
Proclamation Regarding the Opening of United States Ports to British Vessels - Andrew Jackson
Jackson's Veto of the Maysville Road Bill
Letter from Nicholas Biddle to Samuel Smith about President Jackson's message of 1829
Liberty & Union, Now & Forever, One & Inseparable speech - Daniel Webster
Indian Removal Act
Memorial of the Cherokee Nation
Second State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Webster-Hayne Debates
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Democracy in America
Letter to Nicholas Biddle from Henry Clay - advises Biddle not to seek re-charter
The Perilous Condition of the Republic - The New-England Magazine - Volume 1, Issue 4, October 1831
Third State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Tocqueville and Beaumont's Itinerary through Westchester County (1)
Tocqueville Appreciates American Political Participation (1831-1832)
Tocqueville Witnesses American Religious Enthusiasm (1831-1832)
Treasury report giving praise to the National Bank
Andrew Jackson's Proclamation to the People of SC on Nullification
Andrew Jackson's Veto of the Bank Bill
Buffalo Bull-A Grand Pawnee Warrior - painting by George Caitlin
Fourth State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Henry Clay's Speech on the Jackson Bank Veto
Jackson and the Nullifiers - song lyrics-broadside
Letter from Nicholas Biddle to Henry Clay on the effect of the Bank Veto and Biddle's faith in Henry Clay
Peter Osborne Speaks to a Crowd Celebrating American Independence, (7-5)
President's message. December 4, 1832. Andrew Jackson - Advertiser-Extra Louisville, Tuesday, 12-11 - broadside
Proclamation Regarding Nullification (Dec. 10) - Andrew Jackson
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
Worcester v. Georgia
Advice to Politicians - Davy Crockett
Calhoun's Speech Against the Force Bill - Day 1 (2-15-1833)
Calhoun's Speech Against the Force Bill - Day 2 (2-16-1833)
Fifth State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Force Bill
Henry Clay on Political Power (1834, 1840)
James Madison to Daniel Webster - Right to Revolution - Writings
Letter from Andrew Jackson to Martin Van Buren discussing the nullification crisis (1-13)
to the Senate and House Regarding South Carolina's Nullification Ordinance (Jan. 16) - Andrew Jackson
Message to the Senate Regarding South Carolina's Nullification Ordinance (Jan. 22) - Andrew Jackson
Second Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson
Letter by Davy Crockett on Andrew Jackson
Sixth State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Statesmen - Their Rareness and Importance - Daniel Webster - The New-England Magazine - Volume 7, Issue 2, August 1834
The Activity of the Body Politic -  from Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Antimasonic address to the anti-masonic voters of Norfolk County and the ninth Congressional district of Massachusetts - broa
The General Tendency of the Laws -  from Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Grand Row at Tammany Hall, NY - Nile's Weekly Register
Nicholas Biddle - Commencement Address
Seventh State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Society, Manners, & Politics in America - Michel Chevalier
The Sovereignty of the People -  from Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Training in the U. S. Army - James D. Elderkin
The Treaty of New Echota (12-29)
The Fateful Speculative Boom of 1836-1837
Cherokee Letter Protesting the Treaty of Etocha
Eighth State of the Union Address - President Jackson
A Political Testament - Andrew Jackson
First Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren
The Democratic Review  An Introductory Statement of the Democratic Principle - J. L. O'Sullivan
Letter by John Quincy Adams on Mounting Sectional Antagonisms
Slavery  A Positive Good - John C. Calhoun (2-6)
Society, Manners and Politics in the United States -
View of the Capitol at Washington, 1837 - painting by William H. Bartlett, engraved by Joseph C. Bently
The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions  Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois - Abraham Linco
Constitution of the Cherokee Nation (in Cherokee at the beginning with the English translation at mid-page)
The Effects of Intemperancy - drawing
Peleg Sprague Campaigns for William Henry Harrison
Ad for the Harrison Log Cabin & Cider Campaign
Alas, Poor Henry Clay! - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 7, Issue 26, February 1840
Census Data for the Year 1840
Horace Mann Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education
Letter from James Buchanan on Party Competition and the Rise of the Whigs
Letters of John and Elizabeth Hodgdon
Mr. Van Buren's Title to Re-Election - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 7, Issue 28, April - May 1840
Notions of the Americans - James Fennimore Cooper
Petitions of the Catholics of America
Song of the 1840 Presidential Election Campaign
Stop That Barrel - political cartoon on the 1840 election
Tabitha Dreams of a Better Society - one of the Lowell Mill Girls
The Tippecanoe & Tyler, Too Campaign
Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison
James Henry Hammond's Diaries - selections (1841-1842)
Look before you leap! Opinion of the Attorney General of the United States concerning states' rights
Christmas Carol. The visit of Saint Nicholas - written by Prof. C. C. Moore - broadside
Have You Seen Sam - nativist poster from The Dollar Weekly Times
Commercial Reciprocity and the American System - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 14, Issue 71, May 1844
First and Second-Rate Men - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 15, Issue 74, August 1844
The Liberty Party 1844 Convention
Philadelphia Anti-Catholic Riots - Pennsylvania Freeman (7-18-1844)
 Review of Jackson's address to the Whigs of Rhode Island ... [Signed] Whig of the Old School - broadside
Presidential Voting by States 1844-1860
The Cruise of the Dove - a whaler's song
Eulogy of Andrew Jackson - Jefferson Davis (6-28)
A Much-Needed Reform - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 16, Issue 82, April 1845
Political Patronage - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 17, Issue 87, September 1845
The Result of the Election - The American Whig Review - Volume 1, Issue 2, Feb 1845
The Independent Treasury - The American Whig Review - Volume 3, Issue 5, May 1846
The War with Mexico - The American Whig Review - Volume 3, Issue 6, June 1846
Whig cartoon - Funeral Obsequies of Free Trade
Independent Treasury Act
Poetry written by Abraham Lincoln about his early boyhood
Irish Immigration to the U. S. - statistical charts (1825-1849)

Early Industrialization

American Economic Growth outline
Between a Rock and a Hard Place  A History of American Sweatshops from 1820 to the Present (Smithsonian Institute)
The Biography of America  The Industrial Revolution (1776-1861) - Annenberg-CPB
Boardinghouses at Lowell, MA
Carey & Lea, Printer and Publisher- Seasonal Variations in its Business Cycle, 1833-1836 - Richard H. Gassan (essay)
The Eli Whitney Museum
A History of Chicago from Trading Post to Metropolis - Technology & Change
In An Era of Great Change--Exploring Vermont  1820-1850
Labor History Timeline  1778-1991
Lowell National Historical Park
Map--Growth of the United States to 1853 User Name is George and password is Washington
Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline
Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map
The Mill Girls
The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals
Samuel Slater  Father of the American Industrial Revolution
Slater Mill Historic Site
Cotton Gin Petition - Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin
Sources and Effects of Unequal Wealth - Langdon Byllesby
Preamble of the Mechanics Union of Free Trade Associations
Slave labour employed in manufactures ... [Signed] Hamilton, Philadelphia (10-2) - broadside
The Plan of the Cincinnati Labour for Labour Store - Josiah Warren
The Report and Resolutions of the Committee of Fifty (NY)
The Rights of Man to Property! - Thomas Skidmore
View of Erie Canal - watercolor by John William Hill
The Working Men's Declaration of Independence - George H. Evans
Address to the Free People of Colour of these United States - Richard Allen on behalf of the colored citizens of Philadelphia
Workingman's Party Platform
An Address to the Working Men of New England - Seth Luther (pamphlet excerpt)
Excerpt from An Address to the Working-Men of New-England
Boston Transcript reports on the Strike
Early Habits of Industry - The Mother's Magazine
Poem-Song Lyrics of the Lowell Factory Girls (1834, 1836)
Report of the National Trades' Union Convention (NY)
Resolution on Land - National Trades' Union (8-29)
The Canal Boat, New England Magazine - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Demand for a 10-Hour Work Day by Boston Artisans
Statistics of Lowell manufactures, January 1, 1835. Compiled from authentic sources
Ten-Hour Circular (Boston)
An Account of a Visitor to Lowell
Equal Rights Party's Declaration of Rights
Loom and Spindle - Harriet Robinson
The Harbinger-Female Workers at Lowell, MA
Harriet Robinson, Lowell Mill Girl - recollection of the strike of 1836
Inequality of the Human Condition - WIlliam Leggett
The New York Tailors' Strike - various newspaper accounts
What is the Trades' Union - Pennsylvanian (2-9)
I never saw a busier place than Chicago … - Harriet Martineau
Immigration by Place of Origin  1840-1860 - chart
Railroad Growth, 1840-1860 - chart
Letters of Emeline Larcom
The Lowell Offering main page of the factory newspaper
Orestes A. Brownson's speech on Free Labor
White slavery!! or selling white men for debt!, Lexington, KY - leaflet (4 pages)
Song of the Spinners (Lowell Mill, MA)
First telegraph message (5-24)
A Selection from the Lowell Offering
Female Industrial Association - New York Herald
The Infancy of American Manufactures A Brief Chapter from Our National History - The American Whig Review - Volume 1, Issue 1
Resolutions of the Boston Carpenters' Strike
A Week in the Mill - article in The Lowell Offering
Letters of Mary Paul
A Vermont Girl Goes to Work at the Lowell Mills
A Description of Early Factory Life - Lowell, MA
Recruitment of Lowell Operatives
Industrial Reform - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 23, Issue 126, Dec 1848
Lowell Factory Rules
An Emigrant's Narrative; or a Voice from the Steerage - William Smith
Timetable of the Lowell Mills - scanned broadsheet
World's Workingmen's Strike against War, four-pages of in Olive Leaves - Elihu Burritt
Statistics of Lowell manufacturers. January 1857 - Compiled from authentic sources - broadside
The Age of Progress - song lyrics

Gilded Age

The 1880 Election - Harper's Weekly website - many political cartoons
1880 Presidential Election Statistics
The 1884 Election - Harper's Weekly website - many political cartoons
1884 Presidential Election Statistics
1888 Presidential Election Statistics
1892 Presidential Election Statistics
The 1893 Columbian Exposition  The World's First Infomercial - essay by Kris Murray
1893 World's Columbian Exposition
1896 -- Presidential Campaign, Cartoons, & Commentary
1896 Presidential Election - many political cartoons
1896 Presidential Election Statistics
Agrarian Protest in the Gilded Age - Powerpoint presentation (16 slides)
The American 1890s (Bowling Green State University)
American Impressionism - art works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Benjamin Harrison (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
Benjamin Harrison (2) - POTUS site
Cartoons of the Early 1900s
The Charles Guiteau Case
Chester A. Arthur (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
Chester A. Arthur (2) - POTUS site
Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Eras
Commodifying Leisure  The Business of Baseball in the Gilded Age
The Crime of 1873
The Death of James Garfield, 1881
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton & The Gilded Age Writers (American Writers series - C-SPAN)
Ellen Herndon Arthur
Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 (Duke University)
The Era of William McKinley
The Fall of Third Parties in the Gilded Age
Frances Folsom Cleveland
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio
General Images of the Early 1899s
The Gilded Age in American Art - Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gilded Age Writers
Grover Cleveland (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
Grover Cleveland (2) - POTUS site
Harper's Bazaar Magazine
Hearst Castle
History of the Colored Farmers Alliance. Preliminary research for writing a history of the Colored Farmers Alliance in the Pop
How Did African-American Women Define Their Citizenship at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 (27 documents)
How We Made the First Flight - The Wright Brothers
Inventing Entertainment--The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies (LOC)
The Johnstown Flood of 1889
Lizzie Borden
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
Lyndhurst - A Gilded Age Mansion in Tarrytown, NY
Map--American Agriculture  1900
Map--The Election of 1884
Map--The Election of 1892
Map--The Election of 1896
Mark Twain in His Times
The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals
Political Cartoons of the Post-Civil War Era
President McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition of 1901
The Presidential Election of 1896 (Vassar College)
Religious Liberalism and the Modern Crisis of Faith
The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
Shadowball--Recalling the Negroe Leagues
Space of Desire  Department Stores in the Gilded Age
Stanford White Murder
The Susan B. Anthony Trial, 1873
Titanic--The Official Archives
Titanic Online (Virtual Titanic)
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America - Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Co. (1880-1920)
The Trial of Charles Julius Guiteau (President Garfield's assassin)
The Trial of Susan B. Anthony (1873)
Uniting Mugwumps and the Masses  Puck's Role in Gilded Age Politics
William McKinley (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
William McKinley (2) - POTUS site
Women of the Gilded Age
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz An Examination of the Underlying Political Allegory
World's Columbian Exposition
The Wright Stuff (The American Experience series on PBS)
National party balance in presidential elections, 1868­1900 - chart
Appeal to womanhood throughout the world - Julia Ward Howe - broadside
A History of the National Woman's Rights Movement - Paulina Wright Davis
Temperance --Gerrit Smith to Hon. Henry Wilson - broadside
Common Sense in the Household  A Manual of Practical Housewifery - Marion Harland
Credit Mobilier - testimony of C. P. Huntington, 1873
The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness--Cecil B. Hartley 1873
Speech After Being Convicted Of Voting In The 1872 Presidential Election by Susan B. Anthony
Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1876-1920 - chart
The Evils of Fashionable Dress, by J. H. Kellogg, M.D--1876
Letter from Harriet M. Worden to John H. Noyes, Oneida Community (1-26-1876)
Woman's Subjection, Editorial, Oneida Circular (3-2-1876)
Reynolds vs. United States--1878--issue of religiously-motivated conduct
Charles Guiteau - song lyrics about the assassin of President Garfield
Behind Again - political cartoon from Harper's Weekly (7-24-1880)
The Friend of the Freedman - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (10-23-1880)
Gen. Grant's reasons for supporting Gen. Garfield. A sharply-drawn contrast. Speech at Warren, OH, 9-28 .... President Grant's
Hancock and Lincoln - political cartoon from Harper's Weekly--11-6-1880
“Exultant Tammanyite” - political cartoon from Harper's Weekly 10-30-1880
“Positively Last Awakening of the Democratic Rip Van Winkle” - political cartoon in Puck (10-27-1880)
The Return of the Prodigal - political cartoon from Harper's Weekly 9-25-1880
Victory! - political cartoon from Harper's Weekly (11-20-1880)
American Nervousness, Its Causes and Consequences - George M. Beard
Inaugural Address of James A. Garfield
Stop that man! He shot the President! - drawing
Woman suffrage. Legal opinion by W. D. Wallace, Esq., upon the power of the legislature to authorize women to vote for presiden
Why I Became a 'Woman's Rights Man - Frederick Douglass
The Constitutional Rights Of The Women Of The United States - an Address Before The International Council Of Women by Isabella
The Duties of American Citizenship - speech by Teddy Roosevelt (1-26-1883)
Is It Ignorance - Emmeline Wells in The Woman's Exponent (7-1-1883)
Pendleton (Civil Service) Act
The True Meaning of Republican Harmony - political cartoon by Bernhard Gilliam in Puck (3-11-1883)
What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other - William Graham Sumner
“‘Above Petty Personal Issues' - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly 11-1-1884
Another Voice for Cleveland - political cartoon in Judge (9-27-1884)
“Beware! For He Is Very Hungry and Very Thirsty” - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (11-29-1884)
Campaign of 1884, Tract No. 2 - Burdette's advice to young voters - broadside
Campaign, 1884, Tract No. 5 - Reasons why workingmen should vote for Blaine & Logan. Think! Think!! Think!!! - broadside
Campaign of 1884. Tract No. 8. If General Jackson was alive he would be a Republican. He was opposed to free trade, and so wou
Cant, chastity, and charity in politics -  the New York Nation (10-9-1884)
“Cleveland the Celibate”-political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (4-18-1884)
Don't be deceived by a name. What is the present Democratic party, in the campaign of 1884. Testimony of a distinguished Democr
The Honest Republican Voter - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly--10-11-1884
The Knight of the Money-Bag - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly--8-30-1884
Love's Labor's Lost - political cartoon in Puck (May 7, 1884)
Men May Come and Men May Go, but the Work of Reform Shall Go on Forever - political cartoon in Puck (11-8-1884)
Out of a Job Once More - political cartoon in Puck (11-5-1884)
The Sacred Elephant - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (3-8-1884)
First Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland
Imagined Uses of the Telephone - from What Science May Do For Us, Life. 5121 (4-23-1885)
Applied Christianity Moral Aspects of Social Questions - Washington Gladden
Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad Co. v. IL
Yankee doodle. Revised for the Camp Fire by Comrade Thersites - broadside
Inaugural Address of Benjamin Harrison
Marriages and Divorces - chart 1890-1980
The People's Party Platform 1892
Pledge of Allegiance 1892
Petition to Congress to Repeal the Act Closing the World's Columbian Exposition on Sundays--Religious Toleration is Christian Civilization--Edison--1-4-1893
The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition- The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian L
Second Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland
Why I am a Protectionist - issue 49 of The Defender, published by the American Protective Tariff League - broadside
Anti-Silver and Pro-Silver political cartoons - many links
Cross of Gold Speech - William Jennings Bryan
Democratic Party Platform of 1896
Free coinage of silver.,Speech of Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, February 13
Gold Democrats Demand New Ticket
Populist Party Platform of 1896 (7-24-1896)
Republican Party Platform of 1896
What's the Matter with Kansas - editorial by William Allen White in the Emporia Gazette (8-15-1896)
First Inaugural Address of William McKinley
How Not To Help Our Poorer Brother - Theodore Roosevelt (Jan. 1897)
The Strenuous Life - speech by Teddy Roosevelt (April, 1899)
The Sunny Side of Life - sermon by James Hedley
Farmer Mark and the Boys Getting Ready for the Political Presidential Market of 1900 - political cartoon in The Verdict
Gold Standard Act (3-14-1900)
A Salutation to the Twentieth Century - Mark Twain (12-31-1900)
Two political cartoons on Grover Cleveland and the 1900 Presidential Campaign - The Verdict
The Wonderful World of Oz - Frank Baum (entire text)
Second Inaugural Address of William McKinley
The Varieties of Religious Experience  A Study in Human Nature - William James (full text)
Thaw Murders Stanford White  Shoots Him on the Madison Square Garden Roof - The New York Times (11-29-1905)
The Great San Francisco Earthquake -- Eyewitness Accounts
The Great San Francisco Earthquake --
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It - Louis Brandeis
The Rise and Fall of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a Parable on Populism - David B. Parker in The Journal of the Georgia Asso

Antebellum South

AARDOC - African American Religion  A Documentary History Project 
Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829
Aboard the Underground Railroad
Abolition (LOC)
The African American Odyssey (Library of Congress)
African American Mosaic--Abolitionism
African American Perspectives  - Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection (1818-1907)
African-American Religion in the Nineteenth Century
African Slave Narratives
Anti-Slavery and Civil War Ephemera
The Biography of America  Slavery (1819-1854) - Annenberg-CPB
Black Resistance  Slavery in the United States
Blackface Minstrelsy  1830-1852
Born in Slavery  Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project (1936-1938) - LOC
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism  1830-end
The Church in the Southern Black Community  1780-1925 (LOC)
Documenting the American South (Univ. of NC, Chapel Hill)
Escape from Slavery, 1838 - Frederick Douglass
First Person Narratives of the American South
Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period (LOC)
From Slavery to Freedom  The African-American Pamphlet Collection (1824-1909) - LOC
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition
A Graphical Overview of New Orleans Indentures 1809-1843
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center  House and Library
John Bull and Uncle Sam  Four Centuries of British-American Relations (From Abolition to Equal Rights)
The Liberator by William Lloyd Garrison
Map--Underground Railroad Routes
Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline
Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map
Mark Twain in His Times
Maryland Family of Southern Sympathizers--McGill Family
The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals
North American Slave Narratives
Photo Essay on Slavery
Pre-Civil War African-American Slavery (Documents-LOC The Learning Page)
The Search for a Compromise over Slavery (1837-1860)
Slavery in the United States (Spartacus)
Southern History
Stephen Foster (The American Experience PBS series)
Stratford Hall Plantation The Birthplace of Robert E. Lee
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad (The History Channel)
The Underground Railroad (National Geographic)
Pictorial illustration of abolitionism. Its rise, progress and end. Vol. II.-Pictorial history of the cause of the great rebell
Washington's Black Code
Washington's Black Code 1812
Request of a Free Black Person to Remain in Virginia
Meeting of Free People of Color of Richmond, Virginia
Denmark Vesey brought before the Court
Exposition on Slavery-Richard Furman
Reflections, Occasioned by the late Disturbances in Charleston (11-4)
Slave Sale Broadsides
Memoirs of the Life and Gospel Labours of Stephen Grellet, Quaker - observations and remarks on slavery
Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour to Which is Added, A Selection of Pieces of Poetry - A. Mo
Description of Levi Coffin's Underground Railroad station
Freedom's Journal-1st African American Newspaper March 16 1827 excerpts
Black Charge - political cartoon by Edward Williams Clay
Jim Crow caricature
Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World - David Walker
Speech by J. Kitredge on temperance
Essay on Temperance by Edward Hitchcock
God Will Deliver Us From Under You (an excerpt from Appeal) - David Walker
Nat Turner's Confession
Nat Turner's Rebellion - assorted documents
The Richmond Enquirer on Nat Turner's Rebellion 8-30-1831
An Account to Render (Excerpts from his pamphlet The Religious INstruction of the Negroes) by Rev. Charles Colcock Jones 1832
The American Colonization Society - The New-England Magazine - Volume 2, Issue 4, April
Burning of a Charleston Ursuline Convent - Boston Evening Transcript 8-31-1834
Kidnapping a free Negro to be sold into slavery - woodcut
- Samuel F. B. Morse
Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation by Oliver Bolokitten, Esq. (pseudonym)
Appeal to the Christian Women of the South - Angelina Grimké
Narrative of the Late Riotous Proceedings Against the Liberty of the Press - The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, Cincinnati
The Blessings of Slavery - Anonymous Editorial in the New York newspaper Plaindealer (2-25-1837)
Letter by E. W. Taylor, a pro-slave New Yorker
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman - Sarah Grimke
Outrage. Fellow Citizens, An abolitionist, of the most revolting character is among you, exciting the feelings of the North against the South. 2-27-1837 Broadside
A Subordinate Position in Society - Catherine Beecher
Moses Roper is punished for attempting to run away
Slavery Is a Positive Good - John C. Calhoun
Angelina Grimké Weld's speech at Pennsylvania Hall
The Break-Up of a Slave Family, GA
Cotton. Its Connection with Manufactures in the United States - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 2, Issue 5, April
European's Views of American Democracy - No. II.. - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 2, Issue 8, July 1838
Letter by Franklin Pierce on Slavery
Letter by John C. Calhoun on Slavery
Letter by William Henry Harrison on The Federal Consensus on Slavery
Personal Narratives - Theodore Weld's American Slavery As It Is
Three Hundred Dollars Reward-Boradside issued to recover 3 runaway slaves 1839
Report on Political Antislavery - Gerrit Smith
Slavery abolished by the laws of nature!!! Negroes not of the same species with white men!!! The mulatto race will soon cease
Arguments of John Q. Adams Before the Supreme Court
John Quincy Adams, Diary Entry (3-29) - concerning the Amistad case
New Orleans Slave Auction
Negroes for sale. Will be sold at public auction, at Spring Hill, in the County of Hempstead, on a credit of twelve months, on
An Address to the Slaves of the United States - Henry Garnet - A Call to Rebellion
Anti-Slavery and Anti-Abolitionist Images
Old Color'd Gentleman - song lyrics and tune by Dan Emmett
Slavery's Pleasant Homes-Lydia Maria Childs-Abolitinist Fiction
A Fugitive Slave Writes to His Former Master
Slavery and Liberty--'E. Pluribus Unum!' - broadside
Letter by John Quincy Adams on Political Antislavery
Letter on the Liberty Party and Political Antislavery - Gerrit Smith
Twelve Years a Slave-Solomon Northup -excerpt
Ja Norcom Letter to Mary Matilda Norcom - Edenton, NC
Lewis Clarke, a slave, describes the implements his mistress used to beat him
Slaves and Slavery - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 19, Issue 100, Oct 1846
Daguerreotypes of Pierce Butler, GA plantation owner (1847-1850s)
Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, as Dictated to Charles Campbell by Isaac
Resistance - Donaciano Vigil
The Anti-Slavery Harp A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings-compiled by William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave 1848
Slave Codes of the State of Georgia
Nelly Was a Lady - song lyrics and tune by Stephen Foster
The Southern Address - John C. Calhoun
Following the Drinking Gourd - song lyrics of the Underground Railroad (1850s)
Higher Law speech - William Henry Seward
The Impending Crisis - excerpt by Hinton Helper
Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself. With an introd. by Lucius C. Matlack
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth - written by Olive Gilbert (full text)
Slave-owning Population, 1850 - chart
Southern Views of Emancipation and of the Slave Trade - The American Whig Review - Volume 11, Issue 28, Apr 1850
The Negro Woman's Appeal to Her White Sisters Richard Barrett, ca. 1850s Broadside
Ain't I A Woman - Sojourner Truth
The Fugitive Slave Law - The American Whig Review - Volume 13, Issue 77, May 1851
Uses and Abuses of Lynch Law - The American Whig Review - Volume 13, Issue 75, Mar 1851
The White Banner - George Lippard
An American Slave Market - oil painting
Thomas R. Dew Defends Slavery
Uncle's Tom Cabin caricatures
Uncle Tom's Cabin excerpt-Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (full text)
Letter from a Teacher at the South - Dwight's Journal of Music (2-2)
The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign - Henry Carey
Slavery and the Slave Power in the United States - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 32, Issue 4, Apr 1853
Slavery is Not a Sin - Governor John H. Hammond (SC)
Sojourner Truth- What Time of Night It Is
Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in
A Pious Slave - Frederick Law Olmstead
Appeal of the Independent Democrats
Do You Dance in Your Own Country - Frederick Law Olmstead
The Slave Mother - poem by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Sociology for the South - George Fitzhugh (excerpts)
The Christian Slave- A Drama - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Excerpt from William Grayson's, The Hireling and the Slave
Narratives of Escaped Slaves - Benjamin Drew
The Public Hiring of Free Negroes - broadside
Slave Purchases and Breeding Unruly Slave - letter by G. B. Wallace
The Hireling and a Slave - poem by William J. Grayson
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States - Frederick Law Olmstead (1856, 1860)
Songs of the Blacks - Dwight's Journal of Music (11-15)
Autobiography of a Female Slave - Martha Griffith Browne
The Blessings of Slavery - George Fitzhugh
Cannibals All!--George Fitzhugh
Citizenship - The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, LA
The Life of Plantation Field Hands from James Sterling's Letters from the Slave States 
Fify Years in Chains; Or, the Life of an American Slave - Charles Ball
Inventory - Estate of Edward Travis Marable (Granville County, NC)
James Henry Hammond On the Admission of Kansas, Under the Lecompton Constitution (Cotton is King) - Speech before the U. S. S
Our Nig  Sketches from the Life of a Free Black - Harriet Wilson (full text)
Cotton is King! - E. N. Elliott
Distribution of Slaveholders by Size of Holdings - 1860
Expulsion of Negroes and Abolitionists from Tremont Temple - Harpers Weekly 12-3-1860
The Fight at the Polls - The Richmond Enquirer (11-1860)
A Plea for Free Speech in Boston - Frederick Douglass (12-4)
Ratio of Slaveholders to Families, 1850 - statistical chart
Reaction to Lincoln's Election - The Charleston Mercury (11-1860)
South Carolina Secession Declaration Debate (12-22-1860)
South Carolina Secession Declaration Debate (12-25-1860)
Southern White Population, 1860 - chart
Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the pres
My Escape from Slavery - Frederick Douglass
The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from Her Letters and Journals by Her Son

Early 19th Century Reform

19c Religion in America
19c Schoolbooks
19c Scientific America (1845-1859)
America's First Look into the Camera  Daguerreotype Portraits and Views (1839-1864)
American Anti-Slavery Society - essay by Alonford James Robinson, Jr.
The American Renaissance
American Women of the Early 19c
The Amistad Trial  1839-1840
The Biography of America  The Reform Impulse (1800-1848) - Annenberg-CPB
Charles Finney Papers at Oberlin College
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism  1830-end
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Evangelicalism, Revivalism, and the Second Great Awakening
Evangelicalism as a Social Movement
Godey's Lady's Book (1855-58)
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center  House and Library
How Did Diverse Activists Shape the Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform Movement (28 documents; 5 images)
How Did Lucretia Mott's Activism between 1840 and 1860 Combine her Commitments to Antislavery and Women's Rights (15 documen
A Hudson River Portfolio (NY Public Library)
The Hudson River School (Artcyclopedia) - large links of artists & their works
Hudson River School of Painting (1)
Hudson River School of Painting (2)
Hudson River School of Painting (3) - PBS
The Humor of Edgar Allan Poe - David Tomlinson (essay)
In An Era of Great Change--Exploring Vermont  1820-1850
The Liberator by William Lloyd Garrison
Lyman Beecher and the Problem of Religious Pluralism in the Early American Republic - essay by Matthew W. Backes (Columbia Un
Map--The Mormon Trek  1830-1851
Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline
Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map
The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals
Not For Ourselves Alone - The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (PBS)
Paul's Brook Farm Website
Penny Magazine (1832-1835)
Religion & the New Republic  The Second Great Awakening
Religious Groups, Benevolent Organizations, and American Pluralism -  essay by Edward Kilsdonk (Univ. of VA)
The role of Philosophy and Literature in building up the national identity of the early 19th century United States - Keijo Vi
Selected Hudson River School Paintings
The Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
The Shaker Schoolhouse
Slavery in the United States (Spartacus)
Susan B. Anthony House
Transcendentalism
The Transcendentalists
The Transcendentalist Page
Travels for Reform The Early Work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1852-1861
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture A Multimedia Archive
Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement
Votes for Women - Library of Congress
Votes for Women's Suffrage  1850-1920 (LOC)
Walt Whitman
Were the Social Practices Associated with Bible Communism Liberating or Oppressive for the Women of the Oneida Community (29
Western New York Suffragists  Winning the Vote
What Was the Appeal of Moral Reform to Antebellum Northern Women (21 documents)
Why Did Some Men Support the Women's Rights Movement in the 1850s, and How Did Their Ideas Compare to those of Women in the Mo
Women and the Law in Early 19c Indiana
Women & Social Movements in the U. S. 1820-1940
Women in America  1820-1842
Women's Suffrage in the United States (Spartacus - UK)
Ohio Black Codes 1804
Improving Female Education - Emma Willard
Hile v. Webb - divorce case regarding equity (Rhode Island Supreme Court)
Legal rights of the widow to the estate of her husband; Marriage and Divorce laws - James Fennimore Cooper
Literary Knowledge of American Women - James Fennimore Cooper
Manners of Young American Women; Their Interaction with Bachelors - James Fennimore Cooper
On the Necessity of Male Chaperons - James Fennimore Cooper
On the Proper Occupations of Women in America  James Fennimore Cooper
Christian Motherhood etching
Womens' Fashions 1825-1840 - various pictures
Various Documents on Robert Owen's New Harmony community
The Common Schools of Massachusetts -  James G. Carter's Essays on Popular Education
Visit to a Shaker Village - Margaret Hall
Visit to the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb; Visit to the Prison - Margaret Hall
Education for Females in America - Frances Trollope
Lyman Beecher - Six Sermons on Intemperance
Letter of Elizabeth Fry [a Quaker] to Sarah Smith on Prison Reform
The Profession of a Woman - Catherine Beecher
Antebellum Reform The Shift to Immediatism - broadside
Niagara Falls - painting by Thomas Cole
The People at War - Francis Wright from The Free Inquirer (11-27)
Rules for Husbands and Wives--Mathew Carey 1830
Six Essays on Education - George Henry Evans (Essay VI)
Henry Clay letter on slavery
The Liberator's inaugural edition (1-1
Prophet John Smith Relays God's Message - speech
Schooling in Early 19c America - American Annals of Instruction 1831
William Lloyd Garrison from The Liberator
African Americans Convene For Their Second National Convention
Chapter VIII of Domestic Manners of the Americans - Mrs. Frances Trollope
Garrison's Exposure of the American Colonization Society
New England Anti-Slavery Society's Thoughts on Colonization
American Anti-Slavery Society Constitution
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans - Lydia Maria Child
Declaration of the anti-slavery convention assembled in Philadelphia (12-4) - broadside
Philadelphia Declaration, National Anti-Slavery Society
William Sprague Describes Revivals
Letters from a Bostonian Woman (1834-1837)
Dr. Beecher's Address on Abolitionism & Colonization
The Peaceable Kingdom - painting by Edward Hicks
What a Revival of Religion Is - Charles Finney
The Appeal to Moral Reform for Antebellum Northern Women - many docs. (1835-1841)
The crime of the abolitionists ... Speech of Gerrit Smith, in the meeting of the New-York anti-slavery society - broadside
First Annual Report of the Female Moral Reform Society of the City of New York
Gentle Advice to Teachers - Jacob Abbot
John Jay Shipherd's Pastoral Letter
Slavery and the Boston riot - letter was written, shortly after the pro-slavery riot in Boston by Angeline E. Grimke to Willi
What a Revival of a Religion Is - Charles Finney
What Colonization Means - The Anti-Slavery Record
Narrative of the Late Riotous Proceedings Against the Liberty of the Press - The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society
The American Scholar - Ralph Waldo Emerson - speech given to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard University
Catherine Beecher Condemns Abolitionism
The Christian's Harp - Samuel Wakefield - revival song
Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
First Annual Meeting of the American Moral Reform Society
Outrage! - abolitionist handbill
Ralph Waldo Emerson on the American Scholar
Just Treatment of Licentious Men.  Addressed to Christian Mothers, Wives Sisters, and Daughters - Friend of Virtue
A Lecture on the Importance of Education - broadside
Abolitionists of Massachusetts - circular (3 pages)
Letters to Mothers (excerpts) - Mrs. L. H. Sigourney
Moral Influence on the Husband - chapter 36 in From the Young Wife by William A. Alcott
Speech to the Harvard Divinity School (7-15) - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thoughts on Miss S. M. Grimke's 'Duties of Woman,'
E. W. Clay's Amalgamation cartoons (4)
Excerpt from Essay Read at a monthly prayer meeting of an auxiliary Female Moral Reform Society
Liberty Party Platform
Reverend M'Ilvaine Denounces Intemperance
Daniel O'Connell to Lucretia Mott, With Reference to the Rejection of Female Delegates by the World's Convention in London (6
 Lucretia Mott's Diary of Her Visit to Great Britain to Attend the World's Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840
Hints to Young Ladies on an Important Subject, Advocate of Moral Reform 8-1-1840
Social Destiny of Man - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 8, Issue 35, November - December 1840
The True Heart of Woman - song lyrics by Mrs. WIlson
A Letter from Brook Farm - Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Second Declaration of Independence… - J. W. Goodrich
Arguments of John Q. Adams Before the Supreme Court
My Mother's Bible - song lyrics by Henry Russell;  the poetry by George P. Morris, Esq.
Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Supreme Court Decision on the Amistad Case
A Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School--Catherine E. Beecher 1841
What is it, to 'Cease from Man' Editorial, Advocate of Moral Reform 10-1-1841
American Notes--Charles Dickens (Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind;  Meeting Laura Bridgeman)
Lecture on Transcendentalism - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Miller's Camp Meeting at Salem, MA - The Herald (10-22)
The Peace Movement - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 10, Issue 44, February 1842
Prigg v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 539 (1842)
Temperance Address - Abraham Lincoln (Springfield Washington Temperance Society
Anti-Slavery and the Second Advent - article by Luther Boutelle in The Liberator (5-5)
Back cover with Illustration for The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1843
Dorothea Dix Speaks Out On Behalf of Insane Persons
The End of the World - James Kirke Paulding in Graham's Magazine  (March)
Massachusetts to Virginia - poem by John Greenlief Whittier
A newspaper article from The Phalanx on Utopian Socialism
Report of the National Reform Union
Temperance pledge filled in by Neil James Sweeney, 28 of March - broadside
The Abolitionists - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 16, Issue 79, January 1845
Anti-Rent State Convention in Berne, NY (1-15)
John Humphrey Noyes and Bible Communism
Mr. Emerson and Transcendentalism - The American Whig Review - Volume 1, Issue 3, Mar 1845
Narrative and Life of Frederick Douglass excerpts
That dark side of domestic life.. - letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to her Husband, Calvin Stowe
Christian Non-Resistance - Adin Balou
The political and military reformer. Devoted to the support of truly Republican principles -- of a well disciplined militia --
Political Corruption - The American Whig Review - Volume 3, Issue 5, May 1846
Tenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education--Horace Mann 1846
Average Monthly Salaries, Including Board, of Teachers in 1847
Letters on the Masonic Institution--John Quincy Adams
Report on Abolition - National Convention of Colored People
The Anti-Slavery Harp A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings, compiled by William W. Brown, a fugitive Slave (Boston, Bela Marsh, 1848)
Brown's Anti-Slavery Harp - a compendium of abolitionist song lyrics (48 songs)
The Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Answers Newspaper Critics - National Reformer (9-14)
The North Star on Seneca Falls 1848
Poverty and Misery, Versus Reform and Progress - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 23, Issue 121, July 1848
Report from the Massachusetts Board of Education - Horace Mann
Rev. Sir-- The American Colonization Society to which this is, auxiliary, has sent out the following companies of emigrants,
The Resolutions at Rochester
The Widow and Her Son - from Water-Drops by Lydia Howard Sigourney
The Decision to Publish The Scarlet Letter
Frederick Douglass on Colonization North Star (1-26)
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience--Nenry David Thoreau
Abolition vs. Christianity and the Union - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 27, Issue 145, July 1850
An Appeal to the Ladies of America - Rev. A. L. Stone in The National Temperance Offering
Argument on Woman's Rights, by H.H. Van Amringe, as reprinted in the Proceedings of the 1850 Convention
On Controversial War--Ramon Alcaraz et al., eds. The Other Side Or Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the United States (New York
The Drunkard's Home - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell in The National Temperance Offering
Godey's Lady Book Online
Grand Demonstration of Petticoatdom at Worcester--The 'Woman's Rights' Convention in Full blast--Important and Interesting Rep
The Lady at Home, or, Leaves from the Every-Day Book of an American Woman - T. S. Arthur
Letter from Caroline Wells (Healey) Dall to Paulina Wright Davis in The Liberator (11-8) on prostitution
Materials Related to the 1850 Women's Rights Convention (many different documents)
Only a Year - poem by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Worcester (10-23&24-1850)
The Temperance Home - Mrs. E. Jessup Eames in The National Temperance Offering
The Vacant Chair - poem by Richard Coe, Jr. in Godey's Lady's Book (Jan.)
Woman's Mission, by Ebenezer Elliot. The North Star (10-3)
Women's Rights Convention - as reported in The New York Herald, Saturday (10-26)
Woman's Rights Convention and People of Color, The North Star (12-5) - Parker Pillsbury
Ain't I A Woman - Sojourner Truth
Dancing as a Means of Physical Education - Mrs. Alfred Webster
George W. Putnam, A Poem, for the Woman's Rights Convention, Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio
Letter from Elizabeth Blackwell to Baroness Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron concerning women's rights and the education of women p
Temperance - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 29, Issue 158, August 1851
The True Remedy for the Wrongs of Woman; with a History of an Enterprise Having That for its Object--Catherine E. Beecher (written as letters to her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Exposure of the American Colonization Society - William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass Independence Day Speech
Report of the Massachusetts Committee on the Qualifications of Voters
Uncle's Tom Cabin-caricatures
excerpt - Harriet Beecher Stowe
American Book Reviews of Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Sermon Of the public function of woman, preached at the Music Hall (3-27-1853) by Theodore Parker
William Lloyd Garrison at the Woman's Rights Convention (9-6)
Economy (Chapter 1) of Walden - Henry David Thoreau
What is Home Without a Mother - song lyrics by Alice Hawthorne
Slavery in Massachusetts - speech by Henry David Thoreau
Preface to Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Mother, Home and Heav'n - song lyrics by Frank Drayton
Niagara Falls - painting by Frederic Edwin Church
We Must Educate! - page from The McGuffey Reader
Consistent democracy. The elective franchise for women. Twenty-five testimonies of prominent men
A Woman's Thoughts About Women (Dinah Marie Mulock Craik)
Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet, Atlantic Monthly (Feb.) - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Slave letter written by an unidentified slave
Conversion to Christ from Memoirs of Reverend Charles G. Finney
Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the pres

Sectionalism

1844 Presidential Election Statistics
1848 Presidential Election Statistics
1852 Presidential Election Statistics
1856 Presidential Election Statistics
Abigail Powers Fillmore
Aboard the Underground Railroad
Abraham Lincoln Online
Abraham Lincoln (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
Abraham Lincoln (2) - POTUS site
America in the 1850s (E Pluribus Unum Project)
American Anti-Slavery Society - essay by Alonford James Robinson, Jr.
America's First Look into the Camera  Daguerreotype Portraits and Views (1839-1864)
A Biography of America  The Coming of the Civil War (1846-1861) - Annenberg-CPB
Black Resistance  Slavery in the United States
Bleeding Kansas Gallery
Chronology of the Secession Crisis
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism  1830-end
The Church in the Southern Black Community
The Dred Scott Case (Washington Univ.)
First-Person Narratives of the American South (Univ. of NC, Chapel Hill)
Franklin Pierce (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
Franklin Pierce (2) - POTUS site
Graph containing information about the Union and the Confederacy on the eve of war, 1860
A Hard Shove for a Nation on the Brink- The Impact of Dred Scott - Lisa Cozzens (essay)
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Biography
Harriet Rebecca Lane
History of the song, John Brown's Body
James Buchanan (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
James Buchanan (2) - POTUS site
James Horton on Bleeding Kansas
Jane Means Appleton Pierce
John Brown's Holy War (PBS)
Lause's Links - 1820 to 1870 (insurgency - third party movements)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (2)
Lincoln's Home in Springfield, IL
Map--America in 1860--Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--The Election of 1856
Map--The Election of 1860
Map--Growth of the United States to 1853
Map--Presidential Election Map--County-By-County
Map--Slave Population in the South  1860
Map--Status of Slavery in the Territories  1850-1854
Map--Territorial Growth, 1860
Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline
Millard Fillmore (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
Millard Fillmore (2) - POTUS site
The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals
Party Nominating Conventions--Spring, 1860
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Politics and Sectionalism in the 1850s - Steven Demkin (essay)
Slavery in the United States (Spartacus)
The Time of the Lincolns (The American Experience PBS series)
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
The Underground Railroad (The History Channel)
Liberty Party Platform (8-30)
Presidential Voting by States 1844-1860
Spot Resolutions - Congressman Abraham Lincoln
An Appeal to the Free Soil Party - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 23, Issue 125, Nov 1848
Causes of the Success of the Whigs - The American Whig Review - Volume 8, Issue 6, Dec 1848
The Election - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 23, Issue 124, Oct 1848
Free Soil Party Platform
The Honor of this Country - speech in the House by Alexander H. Stephens (2-2)
Letter on the Free Soil Party - Gerrit Smith
The Liberty Party - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 23, Issue 122, Aug 1848
Millard Fillmore - The American Whig Review - Volume 8, Issue 4, Oct 1848
New York Barnburners & the Free Soil Party Convention
A History of Parties - The American Whig Review - Volume 10, Issue 22, Oct 1849
Inaugural Address of Zachary Taylor
Judge Jay's letter - Free soil Whigs and Liberty party men, read this! - broadside
Origin of the Two Parties Contrast of their Doctrines - The American Whig Review--Volume 9, Issue 13, Jan. 1849
Popular Sovereignty and States Rights - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 25, Issue 133, July 1849
Remarks on the Resolutions and Manifesto of the Southern Caucus - The American Whig Review - Volume 9, Issue 15, Mar 1849
The Southern Address - John C. Calhoun
Calhoun's Speech on the Compromise of 1850
Census Data for the Year 1850
Centralization - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 26, Issue 142, April 1850
Clay's Resolutions of 1850 (1-29)
The Compromise of 1850
John C. Calhoun - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 26, Issue 143, May 1850
Fugitive Slave Act--Broadside
Fugitive slave bill ... Approved - Millard Fillmore - broadside (9-18-1850)
The New York Herald supports the Compromise of 1850
 Read and Ponder the Fugitive Slave Law! - broadside
Resolutions of the Nashville Convention
The Stability of the Union - De Bow's Review
Stability of the Union - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 26, Issue 139, January 1850
Stephen A. Douglas's speech on California Admission
The Underground Railroad - Levi Coffin
William H. Trescot on The Position and Course of the South
Dixie - song lyrics by Daniel Decator Emmett (a Northerner)
Platform of the American Party of Massachusetts - broadside
Anti-Fugitive Slave Law Meeting Resolutions
Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race - Dr. Samuel Cartwright in De Bow's ReviewSouthern and Western States (Volume XI
Frances Gage Remembers Sojourner Truth Appearing at the Akron Convention
The Fugitive Slave Law - The American Whig Review - Volume 13, Issue 77, May 1851
The Philosophy of the American Union; or, the Principles of its Cohesiveness - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 2
Washington Crossing the Delaware - painting by Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Political Motives for 1851-2 - The American Whig Review - Volume 13, Issue 37, Jan 1851
The Convention - the Party and the Compromise - The American Whig Review - Volume 15, Issue 90, Jun 1852
The Cuban Debate - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 31, Issue 173, Nov-Dec 1852
The Democratic Convention - The American Whig Review - Volume 16, Issue 91, July 1852
The Democratic Nomination - The American Whig Review - Volume 16, Issue 92, Aug 1852
Franklin Pierce - The American Whig Review - Volume 16, Issue 95, Nov 1852
Frank Pierce and Major-General Scott - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 31, Issue 172, Oct 1852
Free Soil Party Platform (8-11-1852)
General Scott. Triumph of the Resurrectionists - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 30, Issue 168, June 1852
Know-Nothing Oath (mid-page)
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (full text)
The Whig Convention The Candidate and the Campaign - The American Whig Review - Volume 16, Issue 92, Aug 1852
Black Potential and the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Inaugural Address of Franklin Pierce
Appeal of the Independent Democrats
The Crime Against Kansas - Charles Sumner speech
DeBow's Review on the destiny of the slave states (Sept.)
Examiner's questions for admittance to the American (or Know Nothing) Party (July)
Fragments on Slavery - Abraham Lincoln
The Kansas Emigrants - poem by John Greenlief Whittier
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act - editorials from over 20 newspapers
Let the People Speak Out - From The New York Tribune (2-13)
Letter from Edward Bridgman - about Bleeding KS
Letter on the revival of the slavery issue - Gerrit Smith
The Missouri Prohibition - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 34, Issue 2, August 1854
Ostend Manifesto
Report of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society with the Act of Incorporation
Slavery in Massachusetts - Henry David Thoreau
Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise - A. Lincoln
Whig Principles. What's Left of Them - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 34, Issue 6, December 1854
William Lloyd Garrison Admits of No Compromise
The Federal Union - Shall it be Preserved - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 36, Issue 4, October 1855
Inaugural Address of Major Levi Boone of Chicago
Letter of Abraham Lincoln on Nativism
Letter of John Brown on Bleeding Kansas
Letters of Thomas C. Wells - Kansas pioneer about Border Ruffians (1855-1866)
Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act
National platform of the Know somethings - Adopted at Cleveland, OH - broadside
The Presidential Negative - Vetos of President Pierce - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 36, Issue 5, November 18
Scenes in the Kansas Election - From The Liberator (7-27-1855)
Julia Louisa Lovejoy, Selected Letters from Kansas
1856 Campaign - political cartoon
The Canning of Charles Sumner - editorials from over 20 newspapers
Crimes Against Kansas speech - Charles Sumner
Democratic Platform, 1856 caricature-political cartoon
Francis Henderson describes living conditions under slavery
Free State Battery - photo
Kansas - the Reign of Terror - The New York Tribune
A Letter From Edward Bridgman (5-25) about the situation in Kansas
Letter from California vigilante committee to John Stephens (9-5-1856)
Letter from Salmon P. Chase on slave power
Letter on the revival of the slavery issue - Gideon Welles
On the Sumner Assault by Preston S. Brooks
Republican Campaign Songster - songs for the 1856 campaign
Republican Party Platform of 1856
The Reign of Terror - From The New York Tribune (6-12)
The Ruffians in the Senate
Six Months in Kansas--Hannah Anderson Ropes 1856
Southern Chivalry - lithograph by John L. Magee
A Southern Response to the Caning of Sumner
Sumner and Brooks - Journal American (5-24-1856)
The Union - The Dangers Which Beset It. Number One - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 37, Issue 1, January 1856
The Union - The Democratic Party - The Administration - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 37, Issue 6, June 1856
White slavery. The new Democratic doctrine. ... Slavery not to be confined to the negro race, but to be made the universal co
The American Mind and the Traits of Webster, Clay and Calhoun by Edwin P. Whipple - excerpt from essay first published in Harpe
The American Platform of Principles (Know-Nothings)
Anti-slavery fair! The Abington anti-slavery fair will commence on Monday evening, Nov. 9th, at Union Hall, North Abington -
Dred Scott Decision - Roger B. Taney
Dred Scott Decision - various Supreme Court opinions on the case
Dred Scott Case - editorials from over 20 newspapers
The Gathering Storm - Hinton Rowan Helper
Inaugural Address of James Buchanan
Lecompton Constitution
Northern Outrage over Scott v. Sandford - From The New York Tribuen 3-7-1857
Scott v. Sandford
Speech by Gerrit Smith on the suffering in Kansas
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision - Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln - Debate at Gatesburg, IL
Astounding Disclosures! - broadside on the Democratic Party by Robert Goodenow
Cotton is King Excerpts from On the Admission of Kansas, Under the Lecompton Constitution Speech Before the U.S. Senate, Ma
DeBow's Review on the destiny of cotton culture (May)
The Declaration of independence, signed July 4th, 1776 A song, designed for the public schools and academies ... Pittsburgh
Democracy and Republicanism - Choate and Cushing - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 42, Issue 2, August 1858
House Divided Speech - Abraham Lincoln
The Irrepressible Conflict - William Seward speech
Le Marais Du Cygne - a poem on Kansas by John Greenlief Whittier published in the Atlantic Monthly (Sept.)
Letter by Andrew Johnson Evaluating James Buchanan
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
A short sketch of our troubles in the anti-slavery cause ... Newport, Kentucky. Office of the Daily and weekly news - broadsi
To the abolitionists and prohibitionists of the County of Madison ... Your friend Gerrit Smith - broadside
Various documents on the trial and execution of John Brown
Crusader and feminist letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm 1858-1865
African colonization--its principles and aims. An address delivered by John H. B. Latrobe, president of the American Colonizati
Anti-slavery hymns for the New England anti-slavery convention (5-25-26) - broadside
The Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority - Stephen Douglas
Execution of Capt. John Brown. At a meeting of the executive committee of the American anti-slavery society, held in Boston, N
Harpers Ferry headline - John Brown's raid
John Brown Final Address to the Court
John Brown's Raid - assorted documents
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, VA - editorials from over 20 newspapers
Letter of William Smith - about Bleeding Kansas
Letter of William Windom to Edward R. Parry et al. describing the Southern fires eaters in Congress
Logical Results of Republicanism - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 43, Issue 2, October 1859
Political and industrial reform - broadside
Responses to John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry (Ohio Enquirer October 19; Chicago, Illinois Press and Tribune October 20
Various Documents on the Trial & Execution of John Brown
John Brown's Body Lies A-Moldin' in the Grave - song lyrics
Aboriginal America - Jacob Abbot
Alabama's Letter to the State of North Carolina
Alexander Stevens' Reply to President-Elect Lincoln
The Bible Argument (on slavery) - Thornton Stringfellow
Census Data for the Year 1860
Constitutional Union Party Platform - Bell, Everett
The Crittendon Compromise
Democratic Platform - Stephen A. Douglas
Democratic Platform - John Breckinridge
Distribution of Farms by Acreage - 1860
Distribution of Slaveholders by Size of Holdings - 1860
[Dividing the] National [Map] - political cartoon
The Doom of Slavery in the Union- Its Safety Out of It, by John Townsend
The Election in November by James Russell Lowell - The Atlantic Monthly October 1860
Extract from President James Buchanan's Fourth Annual Message to Congress
The Fight at the Polls - The Richmond Enquirer (Nov. 1860)
Jefferson Davis - portrait photo by Matthew Brady
Let Us , therefore, reason together! - speech by Alec Stephens (11-14)
Letter from Congressman John Reagan of Texas
Letter from Frederick Douglass on his views on Liberty
Lincoln and Liberty, Too - Lincoln's campaign song (sound file) with lyrics
Lincoln's Cooper Union Address
Lincoln's New Haven speech, 3-6-1860 (complete)
Little Stephen A. Trying to Climb A Very High Chair - political cartoon in Vanity Fair (7-14-1860)
New Orleans Daily Picayune editorial of 11-4
Open Letter of Gov. Joe Brown to the People of Georgia
Our Political Snake Charmer - political cartoon in Vanity Fair (2-11-1860)
Paul Revere's Ride - poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Platform of the Alabama Democracy - Montgomery, AL (Jan.)
Population Distribution of the Border Slaveholding States - 1860
Population Distribution of the the Eleven Future Confederate States - 1860
President-Elect Lincoln's Letter to Alexander Stevens
Prospects of Slavery Expansion - Charleston Mercury (2-28-1860)
Republican National Platform
The Slave Deck of the Bark 'Wildfire. - illustration in the 6-2-1860 issue of Harper's Weekly
Slave Statistics Information
South Carolina Secession Declaration Debate (12-22-1860)
South Carolina Secession Declaration Debate (12-25-1860)
Southern testimony. Speech of Alex. H. Stephens, now vice president of the Southern Confederacy, delivered before the Conven
The Terrors of Submission - Charleston Mercury (10-11-1860)
Though Lincoln is elected, there is no danger - Staunton Spectator (11-13-1860)
What is the True Lesson---Daily Picayune, New Orleans (11-4-1860)
Young America Rising at the Ballot-Box and Strangling the Serpents Disunion and Secession - political cartoon Harper's Weekly (9-1-1860)
Pioneer Days in Kansas (1856-1865) - Richard Corldey
Young America Rising at the Ballot-Box and Strangling the Serpents Disunion and Secession - political cartoon Harper's Weekly
The Last Moments of John Brown - painting by Thomas Hovenden

Civil War--US

1860 Presidential Election Statistics
1864 Presidential Election Statistics
The 1864 Election - Harper's Weekly website - many political cartoons
Aboard the Underground Railroad
Abraham Lincoln (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
Abraham Lincoln (2) - POTUS site
The African American Odyssey (Library of Congress)
African Americans During the Civil War - photos
America's First Look into the Camera  Daguerreotype Portraits and Views (1839-1864)
America's Wars--The Civil War
The American Civil War (Spartacus)
The American Civil War An Environmental View
American Civil War Collections at the Electronic Text Center (Univ. of VA)
The American Civil War Home Page (1)
The American Civil War Home Page (2)
The Andersonville Trial
Antietam National Battlefield
Anti-Slavery and Civil War Ephemera
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The Battle of Fort Sumter, 1861
The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
A Biography of America  Civil War (1861-1863) - Annenberg-CPB
Beyond Face Value Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency
Carnage at Antietam, 1862
The Causes of the Civil War
Children in the Civil War
Chronology of the Secession Crisis
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism  1830-end
CivilWar@Smithsonian
The Civil War (LOC)
The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady
Civil War - Brady Studio and Others - Photographs  1861-1865 (LOC)
Civil War Cartoons
Civil War Documents - links
Civil War Graphs - Economic Comparisons Between North & South
Civil War Navies
Civil War Photograph Album, ca. 1861-65 from the James Wadsworth Family Papers - over 200 photos
Civil War Poetry and Music
Civil War Research
Civil War Soldiers' Stories - 8 different links to actual personal accounts
Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society (LOC)
Civil War Women--Primary Sources on the Internet
Confederate Broadsides
The Confederate States of America Documents (Yale Avalon Project)
Confederate States of America Shrine - a very pro-Southern view
Crisis at Fort Sumter
The Death of Abraham Lincoln, 1865
The Death of John Wilkes Booth, 1865
Documenting the American South
Flags of the Confederacy
Ford's Theatre - National Historic Site
The Gettysburg Address (LOC)
Gettysburg National Military Park Site
Hearts at Home  Southern Women in the Civil War
Jefferson Davis Chronology
Jews in the Civil War
The John and James Booker Civil War Letters
John Wilkes Booth - FBI Freedom of Information Act original documents (184 pages)
Letters of the Civil War
Letters, Telegrams, and Photographs Illustrating Factors that Affected the Civil War
Lincoln Enters Richmond, 1865
Map--America in 1860--Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--The Civil War in the Central US 1862 User Name George, Password Washington
Map--The Civil War in the Eastern US (1861-62) User Name George, Password Washington
Map--Election of 1864
Map--Secession of the Southern States User Name George, Password Washington
Map--Sherman's March User Name George, Password Washington
Map--Slave Population in the South  1860
Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline
Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
The Museum of the Confederacy
Music of the Civil War
Newspapers of the Civil War - some from PA and VA
The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals
The North During the Civil War -- 7 documents from First-hand accounts of those who lived in the North during this period
Party Nominating Conventions--Spring, 1860
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant's Civil War Experiences
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Primary Sources & First Person Accounts, Civil War, Charleston, SC and Vicinity
Religion in the Civil War The Northern Side
Slavery in the United States (Spartacus)
The South During the Civil War -- 7 documents from First-hand accounts of those who lived in the South during this period
The Story of a Confederate Boy in the Civil War - David E. Johnston (full text)
Time Line of the Civil War
The Time of the Lincolns (The American Experience PBS series)
The Trial of Captain Henry Wirz, Commandant of Andersonville Prison
The Ulysses S. Grant Network
The United States Civil War Center
Valley of the Shadow
Virtual Visit The Emancipation Proclamation
We'll Sing to Abe Our Song! Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War from the Alfred Whital Stern Collecti
William Francis Brand Civil War Letters (1857-1866)
Women and the American Civil War
Women in the Civil War
Women of the American Civil War
The Women's Revolt in Rowan County, NY (1863)
Women Soldiers of the Civil War
Dixie - Confederate song (sound file) and lyrics
South Carolina Secession Declaration Debate (12-25-1860)
The cost of a rebel peace. Plain words for working-men - broadside
A prayer for the southern cause
What a real patriot thought of the 'Peace party' - broadside
We've a million in the field - song lyrics written and composed by Stephen C. Foster - broadside
Act Abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia (4-16-1861)
Anaconda Plan - General Winfield Scott's letter to General George McClellan
An Act Relative to Prisoners of War - passed by the Confederate States of America (5-21-1861)
Annual address of the Massachusetts temperance alliance to the people of the Commonwealth ... Boston - broadside
An appeal for peace sent to Lieut. Gen. Scott, July 4, 1861 ... Women of Maryland - broadside
The Battle of Manassas - song lyrics by Susan Archer Talley
The Battle Hymn of the Republic - sonly lyrics by Julia Ward Howe
Beat!  Beat!  Drums! - poem about the Battle of Bull Run by Walt Whitman
Concurrent Resolutions tendering aid to the President of the United States in support of the Constitution and the Union - by the state of New York 1-11-1861
Confederate Flag - editorial in The Richmond Dispatch (12-7-1861)
Constitution of the Confederate States of America
Cornerstone Speech - Alexander H. Stevens, Savannah GA (3-21-1861)
DeBow's Review on the attitudes of non-slaveholders (Jan. 1861)
Draft of Abraham Lincoln's instructions to Maj. Robert Anderson in command at Fort Sumter, Charleston, SC (4-4-1861)
Fear of Insurrection - Harriet Ann Jacobs
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
Fragment on the Constitution and Union - Abraham Lincoln
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs
James Henley Thornwell on the State of the Country
Jefferson Davis's Farewell Speech to the U. S. Senate
Jefferson Davis's First Speech to the Confederate Congress
Jeff Davis going to war and Jeff returning from war - political cartoon
Jefferson Davis's Inaugural Address
Letter by James R. Kelly describing camp life
Letter by Jefferson Davis concerning Fort Sumter
Letter by John Jay on the fate of slave power
Letter to J. J. Crittenden from William Oland Bourne (2-22-1861) - Do We Have a Government
Lincoln and the Outbreak of War - various documents
Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Confederate Lady's Diary
Nashville Republican Banner editorial of 1-25-1861
President Abraham Lincoln Calls in the Troops
Proposals of the Washington Peace Conference
The Question of the Hour, by James Russell Lowell in The Atlantic Monthly (VII)
Reflections on the Causes of the Civil War - letter by London Times correspondent, David Hopkins
Richmond Enquirer editorial of 3-23-1861
Scientific Racism - by J.H. VanEvrie
The Southern Confederacy - What Secession Means  From The Harrisburg (PA) Telegraph 2-23-1861
Sullivan Ballou's Letter to his Wife Sarah before the Battle of Bull Run (Major-2nd Regiment, RI Volunteers)
Unratified Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
Various Documents on Lincoln and the Outbreak of the Civil War
Virginia Gov. John Letcher's Conditions for Settlement
Virginia Leaves the Union
War Begins! - NY and SC newspaper accounts of the outbreak of war
The Washington Peace Conference (2-27-1861)
Who endorsed the Helper book! Who were the inciters to bloodshed 'The unconditional abolition of slavery', 'Peaceably, if we
From the Diary of a Young Northern Woman
An Act to Make Disposition of Negro Slaves Captured from Hostile Indians - Congress of the Confederate States of America (2-17-1862)
American Civilization - Ralph Waldo Emerson in The Atlantic Monthly (April 1862)
An Anonymous Poet Satirizes Exempts
Battle of Shiloh described in a letter by Edgar Pierce
The Causes of the Rebellion - Continental Monthly - Volume 2, Issue 5, November 1862
Chiefly About War Matters - Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Atlantic Monthly
'The Constitution as It Is - The Union as It Was'. - Continental Monthly - Volume 2, Issue 4, October 1862]
Education among the freedmen ... To the friends of education among the freedmen - broadside
Emancipation in the District of Columbia
The Emancipation Problem in Maryland - circular (6-17-1862)
The Emancipation Proclamation - Abraham Lincoln
An Exhortation Delivered by Eliza P. Gurney (a Quaker) to Abraham Lincoln at the White House
The Flag of Secession - song lyrics of a Confederate tune - author unkown
The Freed Men of the South - Continental Monthly - Volume 2, Issue 6, December 1862]
From the Diary of a Young Southern Woman
General Orders, No. 28, New Orleans - issued by General Pierce G. T. Beauregard
Homestead Act
John Wilkes Booth - photo by Charles DeForest Fredericks
Letter by Mansfield Lovell commenting on the Emancipation Proclamation
Letter from Mary Todd Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln advising her husband to remove the hesitant Gen. George B. McClellan from command 11-2-1862
Letter from President Lincoln to Horace Greeley (8-22-1862)
Lincoln ponders emancipation in this letter
Letter to the Secretary of War from President Lincoln (8-18-1862)
Mary Phinney Recalls her Experiences of August 1862 (army nurse)
Maryland Fugitive Slave to His Wife (1-12-1862)
McClellan's Letter to President Lincoln (7-7-1862)
Morrill Land Grant College Act
Pacific Railway Act (7-1-1862)
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln to General McClellan (4-9-1862) - broadside letter
The President's Proclamation - by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Atlantic Monthly (Nov. 1862)
Proclamation by the President (5-19-1862)
Rally for the Union! - broadside (7-23-1862)
Southern Rights - Continental Monthly - Volume 2, Issue 2, August 1862]
Speech by Jefferson Davis assessing the Confederacy's situation
The Stars and Stripes - Union song lyrics - printed in the Baltimore America (4-23-1862)
State Rights - Continental Monthly - Volume 1, Issue 5, May 1862]
Treaty Between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (4-7-1862)
What to Do with the Darkies. A New and Original Plan for Saving the Union on Southern Principles. - Continental Monthly - Vol
Comparative Troop Strength, North and South - chart 1862-1865
Additional Article to the Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade (2-17-1863)
Avoid the draft! ... All men who desire to join any particular regiment of cavalry now in the field, are hereby authorized to present themselves...James B. Fry 1863
Beecher Blasphemy and Negro Patriotism - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 2, Feb 1863
The Bible against slavery, with replies to the Bible view of slavery, by John H. Hopkins, D. D., bishop of the diocese of Ver
The Black Regiment - song lyrics published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments
Boston Hymn - poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1-1-1863)
A challenge! The rebellion of the southern traitors against the Union and the government, is a rebellion against the democratic rights of the people NY 8-25-1863
A Confederate Assessment of the War - letter by Christian M. Epperly
A Confederate Assessment of the War - letter by Daniel H. Hill
The Confederation and the Nation - Continental Monthly - Volume 3, Issue 6, June 1863
The Consequences of the Rebellion - Continental Monthly - Volume 3, Issue 1 January 1863
The Cost of War and Who Must Pay It - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 1, Jan 1863
Dan'l O'Connell ---on--- democracy! ... Irishmen and workingmen! Give your votes in behalf of freedom and not in behalf of slav
The Delusion of the Abolitionists - A Letter to Rev. Henry Ward Beecher - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 6, June 1863
Democratic Catechism of Negro Equality - broadside
Emancipation Hymn - song and lyrics by Manuel Fenollosa
Emancipation Proclamation--image of the original text
The Fate of Black Troops in Confederate Prisons -  from the Franklin Repository, Chambersburg, PA 12-30-1863
The Freedom of the Press - Continental monthly - Volume 4, Issue 4, October 1863
General Orders Number 73 - General Robert E. Lee
General Stonewall Jackson - photo by Mathew Brady
Gettysburg Address (11-19-1863)
Gettysburg Oration - Edward Everett - the speech given before Lincoln's (11-19-1863)
Harriet Beecher Stowe's description of Sojourner Truth in The Atlantic Monthly (April issue)
How the War Affects Americans - Continental Monthly - Volume 3, Issue 4, April 1863
Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field - General Orders 100 - prepared by Francis Lieber
The Lawrence Massacre by a Band of MO Ruffians under Quantrell (8-21-1863)
Letter by Amos Lewis commenting on the Emancipation Proclamation
Letter by Joseph Maitland on the issue of racism
Letter by Rufus Blanchard commenting on the Emancipation Proclamation
Letter by William Tecumseh Sherman on slaveholders and the Civil War
Lincoln's 150,000 Negro Soldiers - from the Valley Spirit, Chambersbug, PA (2-17-1863)
Major General George Meade's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
Mother of a Northern Black Soldier to the President (7-31-1863)
National Banking System - letter by Samuel P. Chase
New York City Draft Riots - Martha Derby Perry, Eyewitness Recollections (July-1863)
Nullification and Secession - Continental Monthly - Volume 3, Issue 2, February 1863
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
Proposition to the president to employ the emancipated negroes at Port Royal ... Springfield, VT - broadside
Reconstruction - Continental monthly - Volume 4, Issue 6, December 1863
Recruitment of African-American soldiers - letter by Benjamin F. Butler
Relations between Indians and missionaries - letter by George Bonga
Remarks on Bishop Hopkins' letter on the Bible view of slavery
Review of Bishop Hopkins' Bible view of slavery, by a presbyter of the church in Philadelphia
The Right and the Wrong of Secession - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 3, Mar 1863
Confederate General John B. Gordon's memoirs - Chapter 11 (Gettysburg)
The Riots in New York City - pictures in Harper's Weekly (8-1-1863)
Robert E. Lee's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
Rose O'Neal Greenhow- Excerpt from Diary of a Confederate Spy
Six Thousand Humanities - A. J. H. Duganne
Slave Treatment (photo)
The Slavery Status of the North - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 10, Oct-Dec 1863
Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl - Harriet Beecher Stowe in The Atlantic Monthly 11 (April 1863) 473-481
A Soldier's View of Lincoln - letter by a soldier from the 12th Vermont militia
The South - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 10, Oct-Dec 1863
Southern and Northern Nations - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 10, Oct-Dec 1863
Southern slavery and the Christian religion - broadside
Stamp duties imposed by the act of Congress of July 1, 1862 and its amendment of March 3, 1863 - broadside
State Sovereignty - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 7, July 1863
Ten-Percent Plan - Abraham Lincoln
Testimony by a South Carolina Freedman before the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, June
Testimony by the Superintendent of Contrabands at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, before American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission (5-9-1863
Thanksgiving Proclamation - Abraham Lincoln - set the precedent to make it a national holiday
A Traitor Congress and a Traitor President - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 1, Jan 1863
Trial by Commissions - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 1, Jan 1863
Two-Headed Rebellion - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 8, Aug 1863
Two Southern Mothers - a poem in Continental Monthly - Volume 4, Issue 5, November 1863
The Union - Continental Monthly - Volume 3, Issue 1, January 1863
The Value of the Union - Continental Monthly - Volume 3, Issue 5, May 1863
When Johnny Comes Marching Home - song (sound file) and lyrics
White slaves. It is of the greatest importance to the workingmen of the United States to understand the true sentiments and ob
Illustrations of the United States Colored Troops - Harper's Weekly
 Abe Lincoln's Battle Cry - song lyrics by James D. Gay
American Women - Continental Monthly - Volume 6, Issue 4, October 1864
Automaton Negro Dancer - advertisement
Banking and the currency. Letter from James Gallatin, Esq., to the bank committee, New York (4-7-1864) - broadside
The Breakdown of the Plantation System - letter by Tobias Gibson
The Capture of Fort Pillow - from the Franklin Repository, Chambersbug, PA
The Colonization of Blacks in Africa - letter by Abraham Lincoln
Comments on the 1864 Election - letter by Andrew Knox, a Union Lieutenant
Confederate Attitudes - letter by John McKinley Gibson
The Constitutional Amendment - Continental Monthly - Volume 6, Issue 3, September 1864
Copperhead Democrats. A political cartoon lampooning their subservience to the Confederacy
Cotton vs. currency. Ought the cotton trade to be opened - broadside
Criticizing the Union Army Occupation - letter by Tobias Gibson
The Conscription Act of March 3d, 1864 - Continental Monthly - Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1864
Democratic Party Platform
James Fennimore Cooper on Secession and State Rights - Continental Monthly - Volume 6, Issue 1, July 1864
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Charles Sumner outlining the president's belief that the dependents of black and white soldiers should be treated equally 5-19-1864
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby concerning the loss of her sons in the Civil War (11-21) - a much debated letter as t
Letter from General Meade to L. Montgomery Bond (4-8-1864)
Letter to the Editor of the Anglo-African - Rev. James Lynch
Lincoln and his Son Tad - photo by Mathew Brady
Lincoln Campaign Poster
Marching Song for the First Arkansas Volunteers
Maryland Slave to the President (8-25-1864)
Missouri Black Soldier to His Enslaved Daughters, and to the Owner of One of His Daughters (9-3-1864)
National Bank Act (6-3-1864)
Our Domestic Relations; or, How to Treat the Rebel States - Continental Monthly - Volume 5, Issue 5, May 1864
Our Government and the Blacks - Continental Monthly - Volume 5, Issue 4, April 1864
Pay of Colored Troops - memorandum from Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Peace Coming Through Bankruptcy - The Old Guard - Volume 2, Issue 2, Feb 1864
Plantation Regulations by a U.S. Treasury Agent, February 1864
Proclamation on Reconstruction - President Lincoln (7-8-1864)
The Progress of Liberty in the United States - Continental Monthly - Volume 6, Issue 5, November 1864
Radical Republican Party Platform
Regular Democratic Ticket. Ward 8, Boston - broadside
Report of the Board of Education for Freedmen
Slavery and the next President - broadside
Special Field Orders, No. 120 - General William T. Sherman 1864
Startling revelations from the Department of South Carolina, and expose of the so called National Freedmen's Relief Associatio
A Stillborn Plan for Confederate Emancipation - letter to Joseph E. Johnston from Patrick R. Cleburne
To all Marylanders in the Confederate States - George P. Kane - circular
The two roads to peace! How shall we end the rebellion - shall we coax it, or crush it ... The Chicago platform .... The Balti
Ulysses S. Grant at Cold Harbor, VA - photo by Mathew Brady
Ulysses S. Grant's commission as lieutenant general signed by Abraham Lincoln (3-10-1864)
Union Not to be Maintained by Force - Continental Monthly - Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1864
U. S. Sanitary Commission Sketch of Its Purpose
Wade-Davis Manifesto (8-4-1864)
The War a Contest for Ideas - Continental Monthly - Volume 5, Issue 5, May 1864
What Jeff Davis thinks of the war. Published by the National Union executive committee
General William Tecumseh Sherman - photo by Mathew Brady
Joseph Trimble's Oath of Amnesty
'Abolition of Slavery' Forever Impossible - The Old Guard - Volume 3, Issue 4, Apr 1865
A Letter to Jefferson Davis - Raleigh, NC (1-29-1865)
Address from the Colored Citizens of Norfolk, Virginia, to the People of the United States
The Assassination of President Lincoln - letter by J. B. Stonehouse
The Assassination of President Lincoln - letter by W. Henry Pearce
A Bill to Provide for Raising Two Hundred Thousand Negro Troops [Senate Bill 190] - Confederate States of America (2-10-1865)
Black republican and office-holders journal. No. 5. for the elevation of negroes, gorillas, and ourang-outangs - leaflet
Casuality Reports of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
The Conquered Banner - song lyrics by Abram J. Ryan
Contract for indenture of Susan, a girl of five years (8-19-1865) - anonymous
Farewell to the Army of Southern Virginia - speech by General Robert E. Lee
Freedman's Bureau Act of 1865
General Orders 9 - Robert E. Lee
General Robert E. Lee - photo by Mathew Brady
Grant's Surrender Terms At Appomatox
The Governing Passion of My Soul - speech given by William Lloyd Garrison at Charleston, South Carolina, only a month after Sherman's March 4-14-1865
Good 'Ole Rebel! - song (sound file) with lyrics
The Human Cost of War - chart
Jeffie Davis the Belle of Richmond - New York, The American News Company - broadside
Lancaster (Pa.) Speech - Thaddeus Stevens (9-6-1865)
Lee's Farewell to his Army 1883 Broadside
A Letter to Jefferson Davis
Lincoln's Last Public Address - which prompted John Wilkes Booth to assassinate him (4-11-1865)
Louisiana Black Codes 1865
Meeting between Black Religious Leaders and Union Military Authorities (1-12-1865)
Meetings with Robert E. Lee - Ulysses S. Grant (4-9 & 4-10-1865)
North Carolina Black Soldiers to the Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner
Order by the Commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi (1-15-1865)
Police Report on the Assassination of President Lincoln (4-14-1865)
Reactions to Emancipation in Virginia
A Republican View of Andrew Johnson - letter by Mary Y. Prentiss
Sad news'. the president assassinated! War department, Washington, April 15, 1 A. M. ... The President dead! ... Abraham Linco
Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
Special Field Orders No. 15 - General William T. Sherman (11-16-1865)
Speech of Thaddeus Stevens (12-18-1865)
Total War - letter by A. R. Lord (Union Army)
A Union soldier's letter to his parents
Vol. I. Pictorial history of the cause of the great rebellion. Witchcraft. Broadside 3 pages
What Shall Become of the Freedmen - from the Franklin Repository, Chambersburg, PA, 2-8-1865
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Assesses the Black Soldier
Letter on Harper's Ferry by Annie Brown Adams
At Gettysburg  What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle - Tillie (Pierce) Alleman
Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane (full text)
A Diary from Dixie - Mary Boykin Chestnut
A Ballad of Major Anderson - song lyrics by Mrs. J. C. R. Dorr. N. Y. Evening Post
Reminiscences of the Civil War - Cora Mitchell 1916

Early American West

1836 Wedding Menu and Accompanying Recipes
1846  Portrait of a Nation
Agricultural Implements
The Alamo
American Prophet--The Story of Joseph Smith (PBS)
America's Wars--The Mexican-American War
Anglo-American colonization in Texas - Kjetil Ersdal (essay)
The Augusta Canal
A Biography of America  Westward Expansion (1803-1861) - Annenberg-CPB
California as I Saw It-1st Person Narratives from 1849-1900
The Cheasapeake and Ohio Canal 1820
Conner's Prairie Farm
Coverlet Collection from the Frontier
The D & H Canal Historical Society (High Falls, NY)
Diaries, Narratives, and Letters of the Mountain Men
The Donner Party (The American Experience PBS Series)
The Erie Canal
The Erie Canal  A Journey Through History
The Erie Canal Home Page
Early California History  An Overview (LOC)
Eliza McCardle Johnson
Expansion & Manifest Destiny - detailed outline
Facts About the West During 1846
Foreign Policy (1825-1860) - detailed lecture notes
Fifty Years in Oregon - from the diaries of T. T. Geer
Frontier Homes (The History Channel)
Gold Fever (The American Experience PBS series)
Gold Rush Fast Facts
The Gold Rush (PBS Series)
The Gold Rush Chronicles
History of the Early West
History of the Erie Canal
The Hudson River Maritime Museum (Kingston, NY)
The Hudson River School (Artcyclopedia) - large links of artists & their works
Hudson River School of Painting (1)
Hudson River School of Painting (2)
Inland Navigation-Connecting the New Republic, 1790-1840
The Interactive Santa Fe Trail
James K. Polk (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
James K. Polk (2) - POTUS site
Julia Boggs Dent Grant
Levi Strauss & Co.
Lest We Forget--People of Color on America's Western Frontier
Library of Western Fur Trade Historical Source Documents--Diaries, Narratives, and Letters of the Mountain
Manifest Destiny - Michael T. Lubragge (essay)
Map--Oregon Territory  1840s--User Name is George and Password is Washington
Map--The Oregon Trail  1843 (interactive)
Map--Principal Rivers, Roads, and Canals  1840
Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map
Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline
Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map
Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor
The Mexican American War  1846-1848
Mexican-American War - Documents
The Mexican War and Slavery - political cartoons (Boondocksnet)
Mormonism and the American Mainstream
Mountain Men & the Fur Trade (American Northwest)
The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals
The Oregon Trail
Paintings of Manifest Destiny
The Papers of President James K. Polk (Avalon Project)
Robert Fulton
Sam Houston Memorial Museum
San Francisco & the Gold Rush 1840s-1850s
Sarah Childress Polk
Secrets of a Master Builder--How James Eads Tamed the Mighty Mississippi (The American Experience PBS series)
The Transcontinental Railroad
Western Immigration
The Wild! Wild! West! - huge site of weblinks
Women of the West
Zachary Taylor (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
Zachary Taylor (2) - POTUS site
Table Showing Data On the % of Urban Population 1790-1860
Sell a Country! Why Not Sell the Air - Tecumseh
Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, Speeches
Building of the Erie Canal
The Morality of Manufactures - Nile's Weekly Register
Various documents on the removal of the Cherokee Nation
Gottfried Duden - Letters - Frontier and Wilderness Life (1824-1825)
Peter Skene Ogden's Journal of His Journey into Utah
Diet and Health of Frontier Women - Gottfried Dudden
The Last of the Mohicans, Volume 1
Elias Boudimott Proposes a Cherokee Newspaper
View Near the Village of Catskill - painting by Thomas Cole
Treaty With the Potawatami
Niagara Falls - painting by Thomas Cole
Preemption & Homestead Acts (1830, 1841)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Autobiography of John Ball - Across the Plains to Oregon
Nathaniel Wyeth's Journals of His Expeditions into the OR Country (1832-1834)
Worcester v. Georgia
Life of Black Hawk
Letter by Davy Crockett on Andrew Jackson and Crockett's moving to Texas
Declaration of the People of Texas (11-7)
Nature's Wonderland - painting by Thomas Doughty
Views on the Commercialization of the Countryside
Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee Nation
Stephen Austin - address delivered at Louisville
Texas Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Velasco - between the U. S. and Mexico
William Travis' Letter From the Commandancy of the Alamo
Steps of Expansion--José María Tomel y Mendívil, Relations Between Texas, The United States of America and the Mexican Republic, (Mexico)
Manifest Destiny - John L. O'Sullivan
Poster circulated in Philadelphia to discourage the coming of the railroad
An American View of Mexican California - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Fenimore Cooper's Libels on America and Americans - anonymous
The Deerslayer; or, The First Warpath . . . Volume 1 - James Fenimore Cooper
Quotations from (and About) Horace Greeley (1840s-1870s)
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Liberty in Theory and in Practice - anonymous
Across the Plains in 1844 - from the journals of Catherine Sager Pringle
Martyrdom of Joseph & Hiram Smith in Carthage Jail - lithograph
Mr. Van Buren - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 15, Issue 73, July 1844
The Re-Annexation of Texas, in its Influence on the Duration of Slavery - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 15, Is
American Enterprise in Steam Navigation - The American Whig Review - Volume 2, Issue 1, July 1845
Congressional Resolution for Texas Annexation
Daily Wage Rates on the Erie Canal, 1845-1870 - statistical chart
The Great Nation of Futurity - John L. O'Sullivan
Inaugural Address of James K. Polk
Monopoly of Land is the Great Evil - Lewis Masquerrier in Young America (7-19)
Mr. Clay - The Texas Question - The American Whig Review - Volume 1, Issue 1, Jan 1845
The Oregon Question - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 16, Issue 84, June 1845
The Tariff Question - The American Whig Review - Volume 2, Issue 2, August 1845
Territorial Aggrandizement - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 17, Issue 88, October 1845
Treaty for the Annexation of Texas (March 1, 1845)
The Whig Party, Its Position, and Duties - The American Whig Review - Volume 2, Issue 6, December 1845
Will There Be War with Mexico - The American Whig Review - Volume 2, Issue 3, September 1845
Administration of Indian Affairs - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 18, Issue 95, May
Boatmen on the Missouri - painting by George Caleb
The Mexican War & Slavery - political cartoons (1846-1848)
The Oregon Question War and Peace - The American Whig Review - Volume 3, Issue 2, February 1846
The Oregon Treaty
The Oregon Treaty - The American Whig Review - Volume 4, Issue 2, Aug 1846
President Polk's War Message
Table of the new rates of toll on the Erie canal, as established by the canal board, and in effect on said canal - broadside
Wilmot Proviso
Against the Mexican War - Thomas Corwin
David Wilmot Argues for a Free California
The Donner Party's Log Entries (Jan., 1847)
Elizabeth Dixon Smith Geer, pioneer journal (1847-1850)
Manifest Destiny assorted quotations (1847-1848)