History Resources

From the Editor

Essay

Carol Berkin

Getting Ready to Lead a World Economy: Enterprise in Nineteenth-Century America

Essay

Joyce Appleby

Economics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Ratifying the Thirteenth Amendment, 1866

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Government and Civics

Admiration and Ambivalence: Frederick Douglass and John Brown

Essay

David W. Blight

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

"Half slave, half free": Lincoln and the "House Divided"

Essay

Gabor S. Boritt

Government and Civics

The Declaration of Independence and the Long Struggle for Equality in America: An Introduction

Essay

Louis P. Masur

Government and Civics

From The Editor

Essay

Carol Berkin

Backlash Against the Fugitive Slave Act

Video

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom

Video

David Blight - "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom"

Video