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USS Miami ca. 1864. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.

This sketch is the assembled court for the impeachment trial of President Johnson, as seen in Harper’s Weekly.

Farragut's fleet running by the Confederate batteries guarding the mouth of the Mississippi River. Painting by Thomas Sinclair. (Library of Congress)

This is a cartoon that represents the emotions the public felt after the failed attempt to impeach President Andrew Johnson. President Johnson is compared to an old rotting horse whose foul stench exudes the Radical Republicans failed attempt to…

Photograph of Union Major General Benjamin Butler. Military governor of occupied New Orleans, American Civil War.

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This cartoon from Harper’s Weekly from 1868 illustrates the Northern contempt for Johnson and his reluctance to embrace the Republican goals of Reconstruction after the bloodiest conflict in American history.

This additional cartoon from Harper’s Weekly from 1868 slams Johnson by referring to him as a ‘paroquet’ stuck on repeating ‘Constitution’ over and over and over again. The reluctance to work with Reconstructionists by inciting the…

The official roll call vote from Johnson’s Senate impeachment campaign - an invaluable primary source. The vote tally shows how close the vote was for Johnson - he merely won by one vote.

The Writ of Summons for the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson Signed by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase notified the President of his impending impeachment proceedings - giving him both the date of the trial and the reasons for being accused;…

The Songbook showcases the early depiction of a minstrel show character, Jim Crow. It wasn't until the late 1800s that the expression "Jim Crow" was used to describe the laws and customs aimed at segregating society, restricting social contact and…

Citizens were required to pay a poll tax to register to vote. These fees restricted poor African Americans from voting. This receipt is from Birmingham, Alabama in 1896. The poll tax was for the entire year.

The members of the United States Supreme Court in 1896-1897. Under Chief Justice Melville Fuller, the Court established the separate but equal rule following the pivotal Plessy v Ferguson Case.

Morton McMichael declines to state whether or not he is in support of allowing freed slaves to ride in the City passenger railway cars. Daniel M. Fox states that he is in opposition of such privileges.

"Jump Jim Crow" song sheet with lyrics of the song popularly performed by white comedians, including Thomas Dartmouth Rice.

Reunion of members of both the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans in Gettysburg, 1913.

Autopsy report describing evidence of brain injury that can be linked to PTSD symptoms.

Soldier Samuel Decker, standing next to the artificial arms he designed for himself after losing both of his arms.

Photograph of Oliver Wendell Holmes, eventual lieutenant of the 20th Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers, found in "Touched with Fire: Civil War Letters and Diaries of Wendell Holmes Jr, 1861-1864" edited by Mark De Wolfe Howe.

This picture depicts one of the separate drinking water that enforces segregation between African Americans and Whites.

These combined posters represent primary sources from the Civil Rights Movement.

Civil War hospital in Washington D.C. This hospital was cleaner and more organized than hospitals developed at the start of the Civil War.

Field hospital at Savage Station, Virginia. This was taken in 1862, and shows how disorganized early hospitals were. We can see how easy it was for disease to spread.

Thomas D. Rice was the man who became the most famous for the creation of Jim Crow.