Includes 100 Original Source Works and Histories between 1845 and 1865 AD including: THE MEXICAN WAR AND SLAVERY 1845-1861 War Clouds Over Oregon, The Acquisition of California, Fremont's Successful Invasion, The American Alcalde at Monterey, Reasons for the War with Mexico, The Northwest Fur Trade, Wilmot Defends His Proviso, A Contemporary Senatorial Opponent of the War, The Capture of Chapultepec and Mexico City, Grant in Mexico, Why the Whole of Mexico was not Annexed, The Discovery of Gold in California, Treaty with Mexico, 1848, The Discovery of Gold in California, 1847, The Clay Compromise (Clay), The Clay Compromise (Schurz), Webster's Seventh of March Speech, Jenny Lind's Arrival and First Concert in New York, Threat of Civil War, The Underground Railroad, Fugitive Slave Act, Truth's Ain't I a Woman? Speech, The Opening of the Crystal Palace in New York, Vicissitudes of A Forty-Niner, The First Treaty with Japan, Defense of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, Civil War in Kansas, The Rise of the Republican Party, Commodore Perry Negotiates a Treaty with Japan, Civil War in Kansas, Dred Scott Decision, 1857, The First Railroad to the Mississippi, The First Atlantic Cable Laid, But is a Failure, The Death and Burial of Washington Irving, John Brown at Harper's Ferry, The Capture of John Brown, Brown's Trial and Execution, John Brown's Last Speech and Letters, The Arrival of the Great Eastern in New York Harbor, The Visit of the Prince of Wales King Edward VII, How Lincoln Was Nominated, Threats of Secession, Lincoln Making His Cabinet. THE CIVIL WAR 1861-1865: Lincoln and Reconstruction, Lincoln's Inauguration, Secession as a Constitutional Right, Beauregard Reports the Fall of Fort Sumter, Grant Asks for a Commission in the Army, The First Battle of Bull Run, Bull Run as Seen Through Critical English Eyes, The Trent Affair, Jefferson Davis' Farewell Address to the Senate, Inaugural Address of Jefferson Davis, The Siege and Capture of Fort Sumter, Lincoln and His Cabinet, The Capture of Fort Donelson, The Monitor and the Merrimac in Action, The Battle of Shiloh, The Capture of New Orleans, The Peninsular Campaign, The Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, How the Emancipation Proclamation was Drafted, Hooker Placed in Command of the Army of the Potomac, The Battle of Chancellorsville, The Death of Stonewall Jackson, Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, The Siege of Vicksburg, The Battle of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, The Battle of Gettysburg, Proclamation of Amnesty, Lee and Grant in the Wilderness, The Sinking of the Alabama , Sheridan's Ride from Winchester, Sherman's March to the Sea, Farragut in Mobile Bay, Lincoln Reelected President, The Battle of Fredericksburg, Lincoln's Letter to Mrs. Bixby, 1864, Lincoln's Last Words in Public, Lincoln's Presentiment on the Day of His Assassination, Assassination of Lincoln-Stanton's Official Announcement, The Assassination of Lincoln, The Death of Lincoln as Reported in the New York Tribune, The Funeral of Lincoln, The Pursuit, Capture, Death and Burial of Booth, Thomas Defeats Hood at Nashville, The Hampton Roads Conference, The Evacuation and Fall of Richmond, The Last Stand of Lee's Army, The Surrender of Lee at Appomattox, Davis's Flight from Richmond and Capture in Georgia, The Disbanding of the Federal Army, Terms of Lee's Surrender at Appomattox, General Grant Reviews Post-War Conditions in the South, Robert E. Lee's Attitude After the War, General Carl Schurz's Conclusion, The Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 1866, Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End.