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Union Military

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How many of these Union military figures can you identify?  What was their role in the debates over emancipation policy?  Click on their images to find out more.

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Black Soldiers

How many of these black soldiers and their supporters can you identify?  Click on their images to find out more about them.    

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Leading Abolitionists

How many of these abolitionists from the Civil War era can you identify?  Click on their images to learn more about them.  

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Prints & Cartoons

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Figure 1     Nast’s Emancipation Evolution The print above is based on an illustration by Thomas Nast.  Click on the image to find out how the print-makers altered Nast’s original drawing following Lincoln’s death in 1865.   Figure 2 … Continue reading

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Best Timelines for Emancipation

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Matthew Pinsker has created a one-page timeline of emancipation that offers a useful summary of the major topics covered in this digital classroom. The Freedman and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland has posted an abbreviated but very useful … Continue reading

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Thomas Nast’s “Emancipation” (1863 / 1865)

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The image that provides the banner for this digital classroom comes from famous cartoonist and illustrator, Thomas Nast, and was distributed as a popular print in 1865 through Philadelphia printers King & Baird.  Nast’s vivid illustration that formed the basis … Continue reading

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Carpenter’s “First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation” (1864)

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                  The U.S. Senate Historical Office has posted a well-written and detailed summary of Francis B. Carpenter’s famous painting of the moment on Tuesday, July 22, 1862 when Abraham Lincoln read the … Continue reading

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