Civil War
Other Lincoln-Douglass Debates
- Lincoln’s Writings (150 Documents) (cover 1861-65 only)
- Selections from Frederick Douglass editorials (1860-61)
- Lincoln’s First Inaugural (1861)
- Douglass’s “Men of Color, To Arms” (1863)
- Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1863)
- Frederick Douglass, Mission of the War (1864)
- Lincoln’s Second Inaugural (1865)
Soldiers and Civilians
- John Taylor Cuddy (Union) —Letters & Video & Student project
- William Elisha Stoker (CSA)
- Anna Dickinson, Perils of the Hour (1864)
- Gordon or Peter (“Scourged Back”)
Featured in American Yawp
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- Alexander Stephens on slavery and the Confederate constitution, 1861
- General Benjamin F. Butler reacts to self-emancipation, 1861
- William Henry Singleton, a formerly enslaved man, recalls fighting for the Union, 1922
- Poem about Civil War nurses, 1866
- Ambrose Bierce recalls his experience at the Battle of Shiloh, 1881
- Civil War songs, 1862
- Freedmen discuss post-emancipation life with General Sherman, 1865
- Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15
- Jourdon Anderson writes his former enslaver, 1865
- Charlotte Forten teaches freed children in South Carolina, 1864
- Mississippi Black Code, 1865
- General Reynolds describes lawlessness in Texas, 1868
- A case of sexual violence during Reconstruction, 1866
- Frederick Douglass on remembering the Civil War, 1877
Featured in Masur’s Concise Civil War
- Letter to Horace Greeley (1862)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Sam Wilkeson’s account of Gettysburg (1863)
- Lincoln’s Blind Memorandum (1864)
- Political party platforms(1864)
- Political cartoons from the 1864 campaign
- Congressman describes passage of 13th Amendment (1865)
- Robert E. Lee’s Farewell (1865)
- Amnesty Proclamation (1865)
- Thaddeus Stevens on Reconstruction (1865)
Reconstruction
- Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) (1865-70)
- Frances Harper, We Are All Bound Up Together (1866)
- Susan B. Anthony, Trial statement (1873)
- Douglass’s speech at dedication of emancipation memorial (1876)
- Douglass on Lincoln’s Second Inaugural (1881)
- Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (1901)
- W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)