These pages link to selected collection content available online at the Library of Congress, arranged by broad categories. The Library's online content represents only a small percentage of its physical holdings.
< Back to American History | Multiple Eras | The Americas to 1620 | Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763 | American Revolution, 1763-1783 | The New Nation, 1783-1815 | National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860 | Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877 | Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900 | Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929 | Great Depression & World War II, 1929-1945 | 1945 to the Present
< Back to American History | Multiple Eras | The Americas to 1620 | Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763 | American Revolution, 1763-1783 | The New Nation, 1783-1815 | National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860 | Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877 | Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900 | Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929 | Great Depression & World War II, 1929-1945 | 1945 to the Present
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
- Brady Handy Collection
- First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
- History of the American West 1860-1920
- Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books From Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin ca. 1820-1910
- Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas B. Harned Walt Whitman Collection
- Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters 1862-1912
- Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and the Leaves of Grass : Wound Dresser
- The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region ca. 1600-1925
- The Church in the Southern Black Community 1780-1925
- The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books
- The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
- Lincoln and the Law
- The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
- The Gettysburg Address
- With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition
Civil War
- A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers
- Band Music in the Civil War Era
- Civil War Maps
- Civil War Sheet Music
- Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society
- Hotchkiss Map Collection Confederate Army Maps
- Selected Civil War Photographs
- Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft 1861-1865
Slavery and Abolition
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A .P. Murray Collection 1818-1907
- African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives From the Federal Writers Project 1936-1938
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909
- The African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society
- The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
- The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
- Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories