History Resources

Lincoln’s "Flat Failure": The Gettysburg Myth Revisited

Essay

Harold Holzer

The Relevance of Gettysburg

Essay

D. Scott Hartwig

American Indians and the Transcontinental Railroad

Essay

Elliott West

Geography

The Origins of the Transcontinental Railroad

Essay

Richard White

Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Financing the Transcontinental Railroad

Essay

Maury Klein

Economics, Geography, Government and Civics

Home Adrift: Women and Domesticated Rail Travel

Essay

Amy G. Richter

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad

Essay

Glenn Willumson

Art, Geography, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Frederick Douglass: From Slavery to Freedom

Essay

Steven Mintz

Government and Civics

A Poem Links Unlikely Allies in 1775: Phillis Wheatley and George Washington

Essay

James G. Basker

Government and Civics, Literature

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

"The Merits of This Fearful Conflict": Douglass on the Causes of the Civil War

Essay

David W. Blight