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Richard Riley, photograph album with cyanotypes of the Calhoun Industrial School (a freedmen's school devoted to industrial education), Calhoun, Va., ca. 1897-1905. (Detail, GLC 05140.02)



"America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War"
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html
A digitized version, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute, of a major traveling exhibition (1996-1999) curated by Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney and originally sponsored by the Valentine Museum in Richmond, Virginia.

"A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln"
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ahd/index.html
A digitized version, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute, of a major exhibition at the Chicago History Society, curated by Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney.

"Civil War: Water Color Sketchbook by Private Henry Berckhoff"
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/sketchbook.html
The digital version of the first-ever exhibition of a series of watercolors from the holdings of the Gilder Lehrman Collection depicting scenes from the Civil War composed by a Union soldier from New York.

"Frederick Douglass' Letter to Mary Todd Lincoln"
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/douglass_exhibit/index.html
A mini online exhibition featuring Frederick Douglass's personal letter to President Lincoln's widow thanking her for a unique memento of the slain president.

"Dear Madam: Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren"
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/dearmadam/index.html
In this digitized version of an exhibition of letters from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, many of which had never been exhibited before, a great historian of England and one of the first historians of the United States exchange their thoughts and ideas -- and both happen to be women.

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