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The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson: List of Cartoons
Digital History ID 1152

This website contains numerous cartoons about Andrew Johnson that appeared in Harper's Weekly.
http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/ListOfCartoons/ListOfCartoons.htm

Freedman’s Bureau Online
Digital History ID 4242

Records of the Freedman’s Bureau, including extensive information about violence directed against African Americans.
http://www.freedmensbureau.com/

The Emma Spaulding Bryant Letters
Digital History ID 4244

This collection of letters from Emma Bryant to her husband John, who worked for the Freedmen’s Bureau during the summer of 1873, shed light on marital relationships during the mid-19th century and on the problems of Reconstruction.
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/bryant/

Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874
Digital History ID 4245

Articles, illustrations, and cartoons from Harper’s Weekly dealing with slavery and emancipation from the late 1850s into Reconstruction.
http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/

African-American Perspectives
Digital History ID 4246

A searchable collection of 300 pamphlets by African Americans mainly focusing on the period 1875 to 1900.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html