Note: See 6th column, 2nd to last paragraph. Chronicling America presents a March 12, 1863 article from the Litchfield Enquirer…
Note: See red highlight or 6th column, 6th paragraph.Chronicling America presents a October 8, 1862 article from the Yorkville…
Note: Racial epithets used in the accompanying primary sources.Khan Academy presents a lesson plan that aims to engage students in…
Note: This source is provided only in transcript form.Teaching American History presents 1866 legislation, written by President…
The Library of Congress presents a piece of 1865 historical legislation, endorsed by William Hunter, known as the Freedmen's…
The University of Virginia presents an 1866 historical speech, given by President Andrew Johnson to the United States Senate, in…
The Library of Congress presents a series of 1870 historical letters, written by J. W. Alford to Major General Oliver Otis Howard,…
The Library of Congress presents an 1865 Congressional Act, also known as the Freedmen's Bureau Act.The Freedmen's Bureau was a…
The Frederick Douglass Project presents an 1862 historical essay, written by Frederick Douglass--a formerly enslaved African…
Note: 6th column, topChronicling America features an 1864 Cleveland Morning Leader newspaper article, written by an unknown…
Note: 1st column, topChronicling America features an 1864 Washington Statesman newspaper article, written by an unknown author,…
Note: 1st column, topChronicling America features an 1864 Portland Daily Press newspaper article, written by an unknown author,…
The Library of Congress features an 1865 black and white, half-length historical photograph, taken by Joseph E. Baker, that…
Note: See p. 21.This 2002 free, digitized book excerpt, Black Soldiers in Blue, African American Troops in the Civil War Era…
Note: See 5th column, 12th paragraph.Chronicling America presents a January 10, 1866 Evening Star article, written by the…
Note: See pages 71-72 for the brief description of Hunter.This June 24, 1862 diary entry by Port Royal Experiment teacher Laura…