1850: Speeches for and Against the Compromise of 1850
1854: Speech Against the Kansas-Nebraska Act
1857: The Dred Scott Decision
1858: Abraham Lincoln’s “House Divided Speech
1858: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
1859: Speech to the Court that Sentenced Him to Death
1860: Cooper Union Address
1860; 1861: South Carolina Declaration of Immediate Causes; Georgia Declaration of Causes of Secession
1861: Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
1861: The Cornerstone of the Confederacy
1861: The Chicago Tribune: “Help from England”
1861: Special Message to Congress: Habeas Corpus
1861: Presidential Proclamations on Blockade and Commercial Trade No. 81, No. 82, and No. 86
1861: Jefferson Davis’ Address to the Confederate Congress
1861–62: General Burnside’s Army and the Roanoke Island Freedmen’s Colony
1861; 1862: The Confiscation Acts
1862: Speech on the Trent Affair
1862: Jefferson Davis’ Inaugural Address as Elected President of the Confederacy
1862: Letters of a Transport Nurse
1862: Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (Lyons-Seward Treaty of 1862)
1862: Exchange of Letters between Horace Greeley and Abraham Lincoln
1862–63: “The Shadows Are Darkening… Jackson Is Certainly Dead”
1863: Habeas Corpus Suspension Act
1863: General Orders No. 100: Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field
1863: Captain Richard W. Burt on the Siege of Vicksburg
1863: Letters from the Vicksburg Campaign
1863: The Draft Riots
1863: Gettysburg Address
1863: “The Conclusion of the Battle of Gettysburg”
1863: The Emancipation Proclamation
1863: War Department General Order 143
1863: “Men of Color, To Arms!”
1863–65: “There Has Been a Great Deal of Sickness in My Neighborhood”
1863; 1865: Reception to the Enlistment of Black Soldiers
1864: Hard War
1864: Governor’s Message on the Suspension of Writ of Habeas Corpus to the General Assembly of North Carolina
1864: President Abraham Lincoln’s Blind Memorandum
1864: On Blockade Duty: Letters from a Lieutenant on the USS Gettysburg
1864: “The Most Terrible Sight I Ever Saw”
1864: The Military Hospitals in Washington
1864: General Patrick Cleburne Proposes Black Soldiers for the Confederacy
1864: Jefferson Davis on the Employment of Slaves
1864-1865: War Diary: Marching Through the Stronghold of Secession
1865: “Luxuries Have Been Given Up Long Ago”
1865: Abraham Lincoln’s Last Public Address
1865: Walt Whitman: Military Hospitals
1865: “The Shattered Remains of Lee’s Army”
1865: “Conquered, Submission, Subjugation”
1865: General Sherman Interviews the Freedmen Ministers in Savannah
1865: Special Field Order No. 15: Forty Acres and a Mule
1865: General Lee of Black Confederate Soldiers
1865: An Act to Increase the Military Force of the Confederate States
1865: Prospects of the Freedmen of Hilton Head
1865-1886: Selections of Black Codes in the South
1866: 39th Congress: Freedmen’s Bureau Bill
1866: Ex Parte Milligan
1866: Letters from Louisiana
1867: Reconstruction Acts of 1867
1868; 1870: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution
1868: House of Representatives: Articles of Impeachment
1870: A Contested Election: Report to Congress on the Activities of the Ku Klux Klan
1870: Letter to Senator Joseph C. Abbott on the Ku Klux Klan
1870: “The North Owes the Colored Race a Deep Obligation”
1876: Frederick Douglass: Freedmen’s Monument Speech
1876: Ulysses S. Grant: Letter to Daniel H. Chamberlain
1874: United States vs. Cruikshank
1917: Henry Sheperd’s Narrative of Prison Life