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Photograph of American Indians by William Hicks Jackson, 1871. (GLC03095.97)

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The Civil War and Reconstruction in the American West

The histories of the Civil War and of the emerging West were...

Lawmakers Who Voted Aye for the 13th Amendment, ca. 1865 (Gilder Lehrman Coll)

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The Reconstruction Amendments: Official Documents as Social History

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Richard Nixon on the day of his resignation, August 9, 1974. (NARA ARC Id 194597

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To Understand a Scandal: Watergate beyond Nixon

In the early hours of June 17, 1972, police officers arrested five men suspected of breaking into...

Mace in the House Chamber (Office of the Clerk, US House of Representatives)

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The Culture of Congress in the Age of Jackson

During an 1841 debate in the House of Representatives...

“The Florida Case before the Electoral Commission,” Cornelia Fassett (US Senate)

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The Contentious Election of 1876

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Frederick Douglass, ca. 1880s. (GLC07926.02)

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Allies for Emancipation? Black Abolitionists and Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was not an original advocate of abolition. In fact we know that his journey to what he called “the central act of my administration, and the great event of the nineteenth century” was a relatively slow, though continuous...

Photograph of Betty Ford, 1974. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Divi

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Betty Ford: A New Kind of First Lady

Americans never elected Gerald R. Ford president or even vice president—Richard Nixon appointed him after Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned in October 1973. Today, Ford’s brief...