Era 5 (1850-1877)
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Introductory Essay
Mini-Essays
The Toils and Opportunities of War: Letters of a Michigan Chaplain in Civil War East Tennessee
To Make Amends: Tennessee's 128-Year Post Ratification of the 15th Amendment
"An Aristocracy of Sex": Susan B. Anthony on Trial
Political Cartoons of the Civil War
Reconstruction Era Cartoons
Powerpoints