Brooks-Sumner Incident, 1854 Preston Brooks Charles Sumner Brooks-Sumner Incident, 1854
John C. Fremont Millard Fillmore James Buchanan Election of 1856
Election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln, Republican John Breckenridge, Southern Democrat Dred Scott John Bell, Constitutional Union Party Stephen Douglas, Northern Democrat Election of 1860
Union Draft Poster, c. 1862
Democratic “Copperhead” Pamphlet, 1864
Lincoln McClellan Election of 1864
Democratic View of the Freedman’s Bureau
Pardon: “Shall I Trust These Men…” 1865
Franchise: “…And Not This Man?” 1865
Johnson’s Impeachment Andrew Johnson Johnson’s Impeachment
1868 Election
Ulysses S. Grant’s Administration
Black Republican politicians White Democratic politician
“The Ignorant Vote: Honors are Easy” 1876
1876 Election
Compromise of 1877
Thomas Nast: Self-Portrait