History Resources

A family torn apart by war, 1777

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“Columbia’s Noblest Sons”: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, 1865

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Art

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Douglass the Autobiographer

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Robert S. Levine

Literature

The Lion of All Occasions: The Great Black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass

Essay

Manisha Sinha

Douglass, Lincoln, and the Civil War

Essay

Chandra Manning

Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute, 1892: A Little-known Encounter

Essay

Adele Alexander

Frederick Douglass, Orator

Essay

Sarah Meer

From the Editor

Essay

Carol Berkin

Frederick Douglass at 200

Japanese announcement of the attack at Pearl Harbor, 1941

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