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A Negro Regiment in Action
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This is a print of a Thomas Nast wood engraving, originally published in Harper’s Weekly on March 14, 1863. It depicts the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle to include African-American troops. In that battle, the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteers triumphed over a band of pro-Confederate guerrillas in Bates County, Missouri on October 29, 1862.
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March 14, 1863
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Clarina Irene Howard Nichols
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Engraving of Clarina I.H. Nichols, prominent activist and journalist, from an 1887 publication of the "History of Woman Suffrage".
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1887
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Western University, Quindaro, Kansas
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A photograph of Ward Hall and Industrial Building, Western University, once located in the now abandoned town of Quindaro, Wyandotte County, Kansas. This image is included in the 1911 publication of "History of Wyandotte County, Kansas, and its people". Western University opened in 1865 as an exclusively African American college.
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Office of the Freedmen's Bureau, Memphis, Tennessee
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Harper's Weekly illustration of the Freedmen's Bureau Office in Memphis, Tennessee. The Freedmen's Bureau provided support for African Americans’ transition from slavery to freedom.
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Date
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June 2, 1866
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A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
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This is a copy of Abraham Lincoln's speech, "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand", delivered on June 16, 1858 at the Republican State Convention in Springfield, Illinois. This speech is preserved here in its entirety with original italics as part of a 1936 publication that includes an introduction by Douglas C. McMurtrie.
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Speech
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Date
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June 16, 1858
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New York Draft Riots
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Description
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Two engravings of the 1863 New York Draft Riots, which appeared in The Illustrated London News of August 15, 1863. The illustrations depicts the "Destruction of the Couloured Orphan Asylum" and the "Conflict between the Military and the Rioters in First-Avenue".
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August 15, 1863
