"The papers of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), lawyer, representative from Illinois, and sixteenth president of the United States, contain approximately 40,550 documents dating from 1774 to 1948, although most of the collection spans from the 1850s through Lincoln’s presidency (1861-1865). "

This online exhibit "Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine looks at the men and women who served as surgeons and nurses and how their work as medical providers challenged the prescribed notions of race and gender."

AN article from "Studies in Intelligence", Winter 1998-1999

An article from the publication "Social Education" - on the National Archive website.

A collection of images, in a digital collection from the Library of Congress

From the America's Historical Documents collection at the National Archives

In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic about his cover story “The Case for Reparations” about why America needs to reconcile with its racist past.

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