USS Miami Crew
subject: US Navy
description: USS Miami ca. 1864. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.
source: : http://edison.rutgers.edu/latimer/miami.htm
publisher: US Naval Historical Center
rights: Public Domain

Assembled Court
subject: Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
description: This sketch is the assembled court for the impeachment trial of President Johnson, as seen in Harper’s Weekly.
creator: Harper's Weekly
source: Library of Congress
publisher: Library of Congress
date: 1868

Fleet attacking Confederate Batteries
subject: U.S. Navy
description: Farragut's fleet running by the Confederate batteries guarding the mouth of the Mississippi River. Painting by Thomas Sinclair. (Library of Congress)
source: : http://www.civilwar.org/books/interviews/james-mcpherson---war-on-the-waters/war-on-the-waters.html
publisher: Library of Congress
rights: Public Domain
format: JPG

Two Platforms of Jim Crow
subject: Jim Crow Segregation
creator: Library of Congress
source: loc.gov
contributor: Library of Congress

The Smelling Committee
subject: Johnson's Impeachment
description: 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 impeach him. This cartoon helps to explain the feelings and resentment the public had of President Johnson at this time. This was a cartoon that could be seen floating through New York in 1868, published by Currier and Ives.
creator: John Cameron
source: Currier and Ives
publisher: The Library of Congress
date: 1868

Photograph of Major General Benjamin Butler
subject: Photograph. Major General. Butler.
description: Photograph of Union Major General Benjamin Butler. Military governor of occupied New Orleans, American Civil War.
creator: Mathew Brady (1822-1896)
source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection
publisher: Library of Congress
date: 1862-1865
rights: Public domain
type: Studio portrait

The Origin of Jim Crow
subject: Jim Crow
creator: The NY Mirror
date: June 19, 1841

Mississippi State Flag
source: http://www.civilwar.com/resources/313-flags1/150182-confederate-flag-history.html

Georgia State Flag chronology
description: ccby1
creator: Fornax
source: http://www.civilwar.com/resources/313-flags1/150182-confederate-flag-history.html

Arkansas State Flag
source: http://www.civilwar.com/resources/313-flags1/150182-confederate-flag-history.html

Alabama State Flag
source: http://www.civilwar.com/resources/313-flags1/150182-confederate-flag-history.html

“This Little Boy Would Persist in Handling Books Above His Capacity. And This Was the Disastrous Result"
subject: Reconstruction, Impeachment, Andrew Johnson
description: 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.
creator: Harper's Weekly
publisher: University of Missouri - Kansas City
date: 3/21/1868
contributor: University of Missouri - Kansas City

"The Paroquet of the Wh--E Ho--e"
subject: Reconstruction, Impeachment, Andrew Johnson
description: 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 Constitution over and over again would lead to Johnson’s impeachment.
creator: Harper's Weekly
publisher: Senate.gov
date: 3/21/1868
contributor: Senate.gov

Senate Roll Call Votes for Johnson's Impeachment
subject: Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
description: 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.
creator: U.S. Senate. 3/4/1789-
source: The National Archives Catalog
publisher: The National Archives Catalog
date: 5/26/1868
identifier: Series: Senate Papers Pertaining to the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, ca. 1867 - ca. 1869 Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate, 1789 - 2015

Writ of Summons by Chief Justice Samuel P. Chase
subject: Reconstruction, Impeachment, Andrew Johnson
description: 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; “unmindful[ness] of the high duties of his office”
creator: U.S. Senate. 3/4/1789
source: The National Archives Catalog
publisher: The National Archives Catalog
date: 3/7/1868
identifier: Series: Senate Papers Pertaining to the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, ca. 1867 - ca. 1869 Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate, 1789 - 2015

Jim Crow Song Book
subject: The Jim Crow Songbook
description: 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 limiting freedom and opportunities.
creator: J.E. Barbour
source: Smithsonian National Museum of American History
publisher: Ithica, New York
date: 1839

Poll Tax Receipt
subject: A poll tax receipt
description: 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.
source: Smithsonian National Museum of American History
date: 1896
format: Receipt

The 1896-97 Supreme Court
subject: Members of the United States Supreme Court, 1896-1897
description: 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.
creator: Supreme Court of the United States
source: Smithsonian National Museum of American History
publisher: United States Supreme Court
date: 1896-1897
format: Photograph

Negroes To Ride
subject: Notice to African Americans using City Railway Passenger Cars
description: 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.
source: Library of Congress
publisher: Philadelphia
date: 1868
contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection
format: Pamphlet

Jim Crow. Sold wholesale and retail by L. Deming, at the sign of the Barber's pole Hanover St., Boston, and at Middlebury, Vt
subject: Jump Jim Crow Song Sheet
description: "Jump Jim Crow" song sheet with lyrics of the song popularly performed by white comedians, including Thomas Dartmouth Rice.
source: Library of Congress
rights: The Library of Congress is not aware of any U.S. copyright or any other restrictions in the documents in this collection. However, some of the content may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) and/or by the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations.
format: Print
type: Song Music

Gettysburg Reunion: G.A.R and U.C.V Veterans of the G.A.R and of the Confederacy, at the Encampment.
description: Reunion of members of both the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans in Gettysburg, 1913.
creator: Harris and Ewing
source: Library of Congress
publisher: Library of Congress
date: 1913

Autopsy Report on Oliver Perry Chappell
description: Autopsy report describing evidence of brain injury that can be linked to PTSD symptoms.
creator: Tony Horwitz
source: Smithsonian Magazine
publisher: Smithsonian
date: January 2015

Surgical Photograph… prepared under the supervision of… War Department, Surgeon General’s Office, Army Medical Museum.
description: Soldier Samuel Decker, standing next to the artificial arms he designed for himself after losing both of his arms.
source: Library of Congress
publisher: Library of Congress
date: c1867

Oliver Wendell Holmes
description: 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.
source: Touched with Fire: Civil War Letters and Diaries of Wendell Holmes Jr, 1861-1864.
publisher: Harvard University Press
date: 1946

Jim Crow: How
subject: Jim Crow (Reconstruction)
description: This picture depicts one of the separate drinking water that enforces segregation between African Americans and Whites.
creator: Library of Congress
source: http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c31028/
publisher: Library of Conress
date: 12.08.15
format: Picture
language: English

Segregation Posters
subject: Jim Crow (Reconstruction)
description: These combined posters represent primary sources from the Civil Rights Movement.
creator: Library of Congress
source: Picture
publisher: Library of Congress: Teaching with Primary Sources
date: 12.03.2015
contributor: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/civil-rights/pdf/teacher_guide.pdf
format: Picture
language: English

Washington, D.C. Patients in Ward K of Armory Square Hospital
description: Civil War hospital in Washington D.C. This hospital was cleaner and more organized than hospitals developed at the start of the Civil War.
source: Library of Congress
publisher: Library of Congress
date: 1865

Savage Station, Va. Field Hospital after the Battle of June 27
description: 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.
creator: James F. Gipson
source: Library of Congress
publisher: Library of Congress
date: June 27, 1862

Thomas D. Rice as Jim Crow
subject: Jim Crow Actor
description: Thomas D. Rice was the man who became the most famous for the creation of Jim Crow.
source: The Library of Congress
date: 03 December 2015
format: Photo