The Underground Railway: Niagara�s Freedom Trail

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Documents of the Secession and Early War Era (from Nineteenth Century Documents Project, Furman University)

North American Slave Narratives

John Brown and Harpers Ferry

The Dred Scott Decision

The Dred Scott Case

Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture

Map of Territorial Growth, 1860

Map of the 1860 Presidential Election

Crisis at Fort Sumter

The Pony Express Home Station

North Georgia Before the War

The Crittenden Compromise (courtesy of Jim Epperson)

Causes of the Civil War (much more information from Jim Epperson, including resolutions, party platforms, and contemporary speeches)

The Impending Crisis (from "Valley of the Shadow")