Unit IV: A
House Divided (1841-1877)
- From Revolution to Modern Times (Hypertext)
- Modern History - A Soviet Viewpoint
- (The American
Civil War)
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- Expansionism
- The Mexican War
- Slavery
- The
Abolitionist
- Africans in America:
America's Journey through Slavery (PBS)
- Slavery
in the United States
- The
Museum of Slavery in the Atlantic
- Frederick Douglass
(Archives of American Public Address)
- Slave-Owning
Society From the Declaration of Independence to
- Emancipation:
1776-1863
- Studies in the
World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation
- National
Underground Railroad Freedom Center
- The
African Slave Trade: A Demographic Simulation
- Studies in the
World History of Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation
- Slave
Voices (Special Collections Library,
Duke University)
- Abolition:
Slavery Resources
- Excerpts
from Slave Narratives
- American
Slave Narratvies (An Online Anthology)
- North
American Slave Narratives (Beginnings
to 1920)
- Slavery
Collections (University of South Florida)
- The
Alabama Supreme Court on Slaves
- Middle Passage Voyage
Home Page
- Harriet
Tubman Page
- Historical
Facts vs. Antisemitic Fictions: the Truth about Jews, Blacks,
Slavery, Racism, and Civil Rights
- Underground
Railroad
- Kentucky's Underground
Railroad
- Harriet
Tubman and the Underground Railroad (Elementary)
- The
Underground Railroad (National Geographic)
- Walk to Canada: Tracing
the Undergournd Railroad
- Life as a
Slave: Williamsburg
- Amistad Home
Page
- Spielberg's
Amistad (Dissonance Magazine)
- Amistad (The Film)
- The
Amistad Case (National Archives)
- The Amistad
Court Case (Find Law)
- Using
Amistad as a Study Guide
- The Amistad (MultiEducator Site)
- Amistad
Review (Denver Post)
- Home Page of the Amistad
Research Center (Tulane)
- Amistad
America
- Amistad Links
- The Amistad Incident
- John
Q. Adams Defends the Mutineers
- Slavery:
Historical Facts vs. Historical Fictions
- Slave
Songs Transcend Sorrow
- Africans in America
(PBS)
- Chronology
of Emancipation during the Civil War
- Historicus
on the Slave Trade (1790)
- Stratford Hall
Seminar on Slavery (1999)
- Emancipation
Proclamation (NARA/Document)
- Gilder Lehrman Center
for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
- George
Fitzhugh, 1806-1881
- The History
of Slavery: 1619-1789
- The
History of Slavery and Racism: 1790-1829
- The
History of Slavery and Racism: 1830-Present
- Uncle
Tom's Cabin and American Culture (Documents)
- Looking
at Slavery from Broader Perspectives
(David Brion Davis/American Historical Review)
- Slavery
at Different Times and Places (Stanley
L. Engerman /American Historical Review)
- Nat
Turner (Metacrawler Links)
- Chronology
of the History of Slavery
- AfraAmerican
Slave Narrative Index
- Beyond
Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency
- American Slavery:
A Composite Autobiography
- Juneteenth:
A Holiday of Freedom
- The
13th Amendment
- American
Slavery As It Is: Testimony of A Thousand Witnesses (1839)
- Uncle
Tom's Cabin and American Culture (**************)
- Black
Resistance: Slavery in the United States
- Slaves
and Conductors of the Underground Railroad
- Life
as a Slave
- The Confiscation
of the Brown Daily Herald (March 2001)
- The
Anti-Reparations Ad, Trashing Newspapers, and the Debate Over
Racial Sensitivity and Free Expression
- Black
Reparations and Conservatives (John
N. Doggett)
- A
Reply to John Doggett (David Horowitz)
- Slave Narratives (American Memory)
- Life
as a Slave (Web Quest) (American Memory)
- Slavery
in the United States
- "Common Place"
- WPA Slave
Narratives
- Roots: 25th Anniversary
- Slaves and
the Courts: 1740-1860
- Afro-American
Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
- The Atlantic
Slave Trade: Demographic Simulation
- The
Cotton Gin and Slavery
- Key
to Uncle Tom's Cabin/Chapter 3
- African
Migration to the New World
- Slavery--The
Peculiar Institution (American Memory)
- On
Jan. 31, 1865, the House of Representatives passed a constitutional
amendment to abolish slavery.
- H-Net Slavery Discussion
- On
March 6, 1857, in its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court
held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a
federal court.
- Voices
from the Days of Slavery (American
Memory)
- The Many Faces of Nat Turner
- The Underground Railroad
Freedom Center
- On
Sept. 22, 1862, President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation
Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be
free as of Jan. 1, 1863
- On
Jan. 31, 1865, the House of Representatives passed a constitutional
amendment to abolish slavery.
- The
Rebellious Slave Nat Turner in American Memory (Scot
French)
- SLAVERY:
In the Bible and today's world
- Slavery
in the Territories, 1844-1859
- Oxnard
College History
- Teaching
Uncle Tom's Cabin in the AP U.S. History Course
- Slavery in New
York
- Uncle
Tom's Cabin and American Culture
- The
Origins of American Slavery
- Slavery in New
York
- Africans
in America/Part 1
- Beyond
Fact Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency
- The
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual
Record
Resistance
- The "South"
-
- Civil War (General Resources)
-
- Civil War (Battles/People)
- Crisis
at Ft. Sumter
- Welcome to Gettysburg
- Stratford Hall Plantation
(Birthplace of Robert E. Lee)
- Personal
Memoirs of U.S.Grant
- Wartime
Journal Archives
- American
Civil War Map Exhibits
- The
Lawrence Massacre (Part I)
- The
Battle of Gettysburg (History Place)
- Battle of Antietam
- Civil
War Maps Collection
- AITLC Guide to Battles
of the Civil War
- Clara
Barton
- Gettysburg
Tour
- The
Gettysburg Address(About)
- Antietam
(American History)
- Battle
of Gettysburg: Day One
(American History)
- Fort
Sumter/Part I (American History)
- Fort
Sumter/Part II (American History)
- Lincoln's
Secret Weapon: The Monitor (Nova)
- John
Brown and the Underground Railroad (National
Geographic)
- Sherman's
March on New York (General Sherman
didn't sack Atlanta... He actually got lost and hit New York!)
History House)
- Elizabeth
Blackwell
- Lt.
Gen. John Bell Hood
- General
George B. McClellan
- Maj.
Gen. John C. Fremont
- Robert
E.Lee
- Robert
E. Lee: Postwar Southern Nationalist (Find
Articles)
- Salmon
Chase
- On
March 9, 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclads Monitor and
Virginia (formerly Merrimac) clashed for five hours to a draw
at Hampton Roads, Va. (NYT)
- Death
of Alberta Martin (Google)
- On
July 3, 1863, the Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania
ended after three days in a major victory for the North as Confederate
troops retreated
- The Frederick
Douglass Papers
- On
Sept. 17, 1862, Union forces hurled back a Confederate invasion
of Maryland in the Civil War Battle of Antietam. During the battle,
23,100 were killed, wounded or captured, making it the bloodiest
day in United States military history
- On
Nov. 19, 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address
as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil
War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
- Haunted
New Orleans
- Benjamin
Butler: Order 28 (Google)
- Sherman's
Final Solution
- Memoirs of
Gen. William T. Sherman - Complete by William T. Sherman
- Personal Memoirs
of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army - Complete
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- Places
- Gettysburg
- Andersonville Prison
- Richmond
- People
- John Brown
- Dred Scott
- The
Dred Scott Case
- Thomas Ewing, Jr.
- Civil War (Media)
- Civil War (Primary Documents)
- Reconstruction
- Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (PBS)
- The
Reconstruction of North Georgia
- When
Did Reconstruction End?
- North
to Alaska (NARA/National History Day)
- Rebels
Way Way Down South (Confederates flee
the US to Brazil after reconstruction: they're still there)
- John
Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) Index to
the University of Louisville School of Law Collection
- Free
at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil
War
- Families
and Freedom
- The Impeachment
of Andrew Johnson
- Welcome
to African American History
- Toward
Racial Equality: 1857-1874 (Harper's
Weekly)
- Speech
of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens Delivered in the city of Lancaster (Sept 6th, 1865)
- The
Thirteenth Amendment
- Finding
Precedent: Hayes v. Tilden: The Electoral College Controversy
of 1876-1877 (Harper's Weekly)
- The
Reconstruction Period in American History (Charlie
Ginsburg)
- The
Thirteenth Amendment (About)
- Civil
War and Reconstruction
- Colfax
Massacre
- Freedmen's Bureau Online
- Toward
Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America (1857-1874)
- Supreme
Court Justices: 1896 (Google)
- Plessy
v. Ferguson (Wikipedia)
- On
Feb. 24, 1868, the House of Representatives impeached President
Andrew Johnson following his attempt to dismiss Secretary of
War Edwin M. Stanton; the Senate later acquitted Johnson.
- On
March 13, 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson
began in the United States Senate (NYT)
- On
Feb. 25, 1870, Hiram R. Revels, R-Miss., became the first black
member of the United States Senate as he was sworn in to serve
out the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis.
- On
March 2, 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the
winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel
J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.
- Thaddeus
Stevens' Legacy
- Reconstruction
and Its Aftermath
- Aftermath
& Reconstruction
- Carpetbagger
Cartoon/Picture History
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- Miscellaneous
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