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1860s:
Lyrics
to many Negro Spirituals |
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1860s:
"Reconstruction" - Peter Cooper to President Johnson - leaflet (4
pages) |
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1865:
13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
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1865:
The Absolute Equality of All Before the Law - William
Dickson |
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1865:
Appeal on Behalf
of the Freedmen of Washington, DC |
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|
1865:
Amnesty Proclamation - President Andrew Johnson |
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|
1865:
Black Codes of
Louisiana |
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|
1865:
Black Codes of
Mississippi |
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1865:
"The Black Laws" - editorial in Harper's Weekly (2/11) |
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|
1865:
Colonel Samuel Thomas describes the attitudes of
ex-Confederates toward the freedmen |
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|
1865:
Conditions in the Post-War South - letter by Edwin H. McCaleb |
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1865:
Corporal Jackson Cherry appeals for equal opportunity
for former slaves - letter |
|
|
1865:
"The Election in New Jersey" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly
(11/25) |
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|
1865:
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton to the Editor, "This is The Negro's Hour," National
Anti-Slavery Standard, NY (12/26) |
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|
1865:
"The Error of the South" - The Old Guard / Volume 3, Issue 12,
Dec 1865 |
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|
1865:
"Franchise- And Not This Man!" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly (8/5) |
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|
1865:
"Forty Acres and
a Mule" -
Special Field
Order No. 15 - Order by the Commander of the Military Division of the
Mississippi (1/15) |
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|
1865:
Jourdan Anderson declines his former master's
invitation to return to his plantation - letter |
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|
1865:
Louisiana Black Codes |
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1865:
Lucretia Mott
to Martha Coffin Wright - letter on freedmen |
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1865:
Mississippi Black Codes |
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1865:
"Pardon-Should I Trust These Men?" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly (8/5) |
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1865:
Plain Counsels for Freedmen - Clinton B. Fisk |
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1865:
Report on the Condition of the South - Carl Schurz |
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1865:
"The Right Way, the Best Way" - editorial in Harper's Weekly (6/3) |
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|
1865:
"Slaveocracy and Bondocracy" - The Old Guard / Volume 3, Issue
10, Oct 1865 |
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|
1865:
"The South Poor in Cash, the North Bankrupt in Honor" - The Old
Guard / Volume 3, Issue 9, Sept 1865 |
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|
1865:
"Sovereignty of States Fully Considered" - The Old Guard /
Volume 3, Issue 8, Aug 1865 |
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|
1865:
"Union, Disunion, and Reunion" - The Old Guard / Volume 3,
Issue 6, June 1865 |
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|
1865:
"What Shall Become of the Freedmen?" - from the Franklin
Repository
(Chambersburg, PA), 2/8 |
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|
1865:
"White Supremacy and Negro Subordination" - The Old Guard /
Volume 3, Issue 5, May 1865 |
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1865-66:
Diary of Jared Nash |
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1865, 1866:
Report on Land Reform in the South Carolina Islands -
James C. Beecher |
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1865-67?:
Circular, to the friends of Jefferson Davis |
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|
late 1860s:
"I'm a Good
'Ole Rebel" - song lyrics by Major Innes Randolph |
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|
1866:
14th
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution (ratified in 1868) |
|
|
1866:
"The Civil Rights Bill" - editorial in Harper's Weekly (4/14) |
|
|
1866:
The Civil Rights
Act of 1866 |
|
|
1866:
"Economise and pay your debt! Restore the South and increase your
resources. Our national debt is to be paid" - broadside |
|
|
1866:
Ex
parte Milligan |
|
|
1866:
"Freedmen's Schools" - picture in Harper's Weekly (6/23) |
|
|
1866:
"Gen. Sherman's Officers Among the Ladies of Raleigh" - The Old
Guard / Volume 4, Issue 6, June 1866 |
|
|
1866:
"General Sherman in Raleigh" - The Old Guard / Volume 4, Issue
4, Apr 1866 |
|
|
1866:
"Holy
Horror of Mrs. McCaffraty in a Washington City Street Passenger Car" -
political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (2/24) |
|
|
1866:
"How the Democratic Party Fell to Pieces" - The Old Guard /
Volume 4, Issue 8, Aug 1866 |
|
|
1866:
"Impeachment and General Butler" - Harper's Weekly (12/15) |
|
|
1866:
"Johnson Kicking the Freedmen's Bureau" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly (April 14) |
|
|
1866:
"King
Andy" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (11/3) |
|
|
1866-68?:
KKK
political cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly |
|
|
1866:
"Making Treason Odious" - editorial in Harper's Weekly (6/2) |
|
|
1866:
"The Memphis Riots" - picture and news article in Harper's Weekly
(5/26) |
|
|
1866:
Petition of Virginia Freedmen |
|
|
1866:
Principles of the
Ku Klux Klan |
|
|
1866:
Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End |
|
|
1866:
"Reconstruction" - article by Frederick Douglass in The Atlantic
Monthly |
|
|
1866:
Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction (6/20) |
|
|
1866:
"Review of President Johnson's Position on State Sovereignty" - The
Old Guard Volume 4, Issue 2, Feb 1866 |
|
|
1866:
"Some
Facts about 'Southern Aggression'" - The Old Guard / Volume 4,
Issue 1, Jan 1866 |
|
|
1866:
"Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1866-model bicycle for
two"
(photo) |
|
|
1866:
"Three
Months Among the Reconstructionists" - Atlantic Monthly (Feb.) |
|
|
1866:
"The Trial of the Government" - editorial in Harper's Weekly
(5/26) |
|
|
1866:
"Woman's
Duty to Vote," Address at the Woman's Rights Convention,
NY (5/10) |
|
|
1866-68:
Various documents on Reconstruction and the Impeachment of President
Andrew Johnson |
|
|
1867:
Addresses and Ceremonies at the New Year's Festival to
the Freedmen (1/5) |
|
|
1867:
Appeal to Congress
for Impartial Suffrage -
Frederick Douglass |
|
|
1867:
Appealing to Racism in Arguing for Female Suffrage |
|
|
1867:
"Education in the Southern States" - editorial in Harper's Weekly
(11/9) |
|
|
1867:
"Facetiae - Andy 'Reconstructing' the Reconstructionists" - The Old
Guard / Volume 5, Issue 11, Nov 1867 |
|
|
1867:
"The First Vote" - cover
of Harper's Weekly (11/16) |
|
|
1867:
Letter from Harriet Jacobs to Ednah Dow Cheney |
|
|
1867?:
President Johnson's love for the soldier - braodside
image |
|
|
1867:
Proceedings of the First Anniversary of the American
Equal Rights Association |
|
|
1867:
Report by Jacob
M. Ellis for the Friends' Association for the Aid and Elevation of
Freedmen |
|
|
1867:
Second Reconstruction Act (3/23) |
|
|
1867:
"Sixteen reasons why our Republican party should not run Gen. Grant
for president in 1868. [Sixteen reasons] American Republicans" -
broadside |
|
|
1867:
Speech of Sojourner Truth at the
First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association NYC
(5/9) |
|
|
1867:
Tenure of Office Act (3/2) |
|
|
1867:
Thaddeus Stevens in Support of Black Suffrage |
|
|
1867:
Third Reconstruction Act (3/23) |
|
|
1867:
"The Tyranny of the Majority" - E. L. Godkin, North
American Review (Jan. 1867), at MoA-Cornell |
|
|
1868:
Admission ticket to the Senate impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
(4/1)
another type of ticket |
|
|
1868:
Andrew Johnson's Impeachment - sketch by Theodore R. Davis |
|
|
1868:
Articles of Impeachment |
|
|
1868:
Closing Arguments in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson -
Sen. Thaddeus Stevens |
|
|
1868:
Debate in the House on the Impeachment Resolution (2/25) |
|
|
1868:
Dressmaker and Former Slave Elizabeth Keckley (ca.1818-1907), Tells
How She Gained Her Freedom |
|
|
1868:
"Effect of the Vote on the Eleventh Article of Impeachment" -
political cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly |
|
|
1868:
Final Vote on Johnson's Impeachment - The New York Times -
front page and full text (5/16) |
|
|
1868:
Fourth Reconstruction Act (3/11) |
|
|
1868:
"The Freedman's Bureau" - editorial in Harper's Weekly (7/25) |
|
|
1868:
"Freedom's
campaign songs. No. 1-4. New York" - broadside
images |
|
|
1868:
Front Page (and full text) of The New York Times on President
Johnson's Impeachment (2/24) |
|
|
1868:
"How It Would Be If Some Ladies Had Their Own Way" - political cartoon
in Harper's Weekly (5/16) |
|
|
1868:
Impeachment Trial Ticket (3/13) |
|
|
1868:
"Leaders of the Democratic Party" - political cartoon |
|
|
1868:
Little
Women - Louisa May Alcott (full text) |
|
|
1868:
"The Modern Gulliver Among the Lilliputians" - political cartoon
from Harper's Weekly (9/12) |
|
|
1868:
"The Modern Samson"- political cartoon in Harper's Weekly
(10/3) |
|
|
1868:
On the Regeneration of the South - Daniel Ullmann |
|
|
1868:
"One Vote Less" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (8/8) |
|
|
1868:
Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan |
|
|
1868:
President Johnson as Samson - political cartoon - Thomas Nast in
Harper's Weekly
|
|
|
1868:
President Johnson Responds to Impeachment - The New York Times
- front page and full text (3/23) |
|
|
1868:
Principles of the
Ku Klux Klan |
|
|
1868:
Ragged Dick - Horatio Alger, Jr. |
|
|
1868:
A Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution
(12/7) |
|
|
1868:
Senate Trial Rules for the Impeachment of President Johnson |
|
|
1868:
"Sickly Candidate" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly
(7/11) |
|
|
1868:
"The Situation" - political cartoon showing a cannon aimed at
President Johnson - Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly |
|
|
1868:
"This Is A White Man's Government" - political cartoon in Harper's
Weekly (9/28) |
|
|
1868:
"This Little Boy..." - political cartoon of President Johnson - Thomas
Nast in Harper's Weekly |
|
|
1868:
"'Tis But a Change in Banner" - political cartoon in
Harper's
Weekly
(9/26) |
|
|
1868:
Trial Record of the Senate Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson |
|
|
1868:
"Victory!" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (10/3) |
|
|
1869:
15th
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution (ratified in 1870) |
|
|
1869:
A Democratic View of the 15th Amendment Proposition -
speech by G.W. Woodward (D-PA) in the House (2/20) |
|
|
1869:
Act
to Strengthen Public Credit (3/18) |
|
|
1869:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Black Suffrage |
|
|
1869:
Ex parte
McCardle (commentary) |
|
|
1869:
First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant |
|
|
1869:
"A
Long Farewell" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (3/13) |
|
|
1869:
"The Moral Significance of the Republican Victory" - from
Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, The Atlantic Monthly. 23 |
|
|
1869:
Republican Support for Black Suffrage - from Speech of
J. M.
Broomall (R-PA) in the House (1/30) |
|
|
1869:
"Republicans! Democrats! A word with you about negro suffrage ...
[Signed] Oliver Ellsworth" - broadside |
|
|
1859:
"Slavery in Massachusetts. Letter from Mr. Moore. To the editor of the
Historical magazine. ... George H. Moore" - broadside |
|
|
1869:
"Temperance" - Gerrit Smith to John Stuart Mill - broadside |
|
|
1869:
A Washington
Civil Rights Act (6/10) |
|
|
1870:
"'All men free and equal.' The XVth amendment proclaimed. Message to
Congress. - Proclamation of the President" - broadside |
|
|
1870:
Horace Greeley
to Josephine Griffing (9/7) |
|
|
1870:
Ku Klux Costumes in North Carolina - From engraving (after a
photograph) in G. B. Raum's The Existing Conflict |
|
|
1870:
Letter from Judge Tourgee to Senator Abbott (NC) - on the KKK |
|
|
1870:
"Negro
Exodusters en route to Kansas, fleeing from the yellow fever, "
Photomural from engraving.
Harpers
Weekly |
|
|
1870:
Private Thomas Long assesses the meaning of black
military service during the Civil War - letter |
|
|
1870:
"Time Works Wonders" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly
(4/9) |
|
|
1871:
E.L. Godkin Asesses Reconstruction -
The Nation. 13: 336
(12/7) |
|
|
1871:
Klan Violence in Georgia |
|
|
1871:
"The Ku Klux Klan" - editorial in Harper's Weekly (11/4) |
|
|
1871:
Ku Klux Klan Violence in Georgia |
|
|
1871:
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 |
|
|
1871:
"Mr. Sumner's Civil Rights Bill" - editorial in Harper's Weekly
(12/20) |
|
|
1872:
"Children Cry for It" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly
(2/3) |
|
|
1872:
"David and Goliath" - political cartoon |
|
|
1872:
"The Farmer Candidate en Route" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly
(5/4) |
|
|
1872:
"Grand Larceny versus Petty Theft" - political cartoon in
Leslie's Illustrated (9/28) |
|
|
1872:
"Grant's First and Last Vote" - political cartoon in Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper (9/14) |
|
|
1872:
"A Leaf from History for our Foreign-Born Citizens" - political
cartoon in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (9/28) |
|
|
1872:
"Lincoln, the Emancipator" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly
(4/20) |
|
|
1872:
"The Man with the (Carpet) Bags" - anonymous cartoon in Puck |
|
|
1872:
The Nation, "The State of the South" |
|
|
1872:
"Red Hot" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (7/13) |
|
|
1872:
The Rev. Elias Hill is attacked by the Ku Klux Klan -
letter |
|
|
1872:
Slaughterhouse Cases |
|
|
1872:
Equality before the law protected by national statute - Speeches of
Hon. Chas. Sumner, of Massachusetts, on his supplementary civil rights
bill, as an amendment to the civil rights bill. In the Senate, Jan.
15, 17 and 31, Feb. 5, and May 21, 1872 |
|
|
1872:
Speeches, lectures, and letters by Wendell Phillips |
|
|
1873:
Coinage Act (2/12) |
|
|
1873:
The Credit Mobilier Scandal Recounted |
|
|
1873:
Second Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant |
|
|
1874:
"Coloured Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly (3/14) |
|
|
1874:
"An Undoubted Right" - editorial in Harper's Weekly (5/30) |
|
|
1874:
"Everything Points to a Democratic Victory This Fall" - political
cartoon in Harper's Weekly (10/31) |
|
|
1874:
"Will the American people never cease to oppress and torture the
helpless poor? Peterboro" (12/12) - broadside |
|
|
1874:
"Worse than Slavery" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly
(10/24) |
|
|
1875:
Obituary of Andrew
Johnson - New York Times (8/1) |
|
|
1875:
Second Civil Rights Act (3/1) |
|
|
1876:
"A Call for Tweed" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly
(8/19) |
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