History Resources

Woman Abolitionists

Lesson Plan

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

Harriet Beecher Stowe sends Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1852

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Literature

Frank J. Cirillo - "The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union"

Government and Civics

John Brown: Villain or Hero?

Essay

Steven Mintz

Economics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy

9, 10, 11, 12

From the Editor

Essay

Carol Berkin

Frederick Douglass, Orator

Essay

Sarah Meer

"Bleeding Kansas" and the Pottawatomie Massacre, 1856

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Allies for Emancipation? Black Abolitionists and Abraham Lincoln

Essay

Manisha Sinha

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Lincoln

Essay

Allen C. Guelzo

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Fergus M. Bordewich - "Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction"

Government and Civics