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Abraham Lincoln Explains His War Aims
In this open letter to Horace Greeley, President Lincoln maintained that the central cause of the Civil War was to keep the country united and not to free the slaves. Greeley was a reformer, abolitionist, and editor of the New York Tribune, an [...]
Item Type: Newspaper/Magazine
Historical Era: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
A North Dakota Newspaper Proposes War Against Native Americans
White settlers found all sorts of ways to defend the destruction of Native American communities. The Manifest Destiny ideology held that Americans' westward march was sanctioned by God. Social Darwinists adopted the idea of "survival of the [...]
Tags: Native Americans
Item Type: Newspaper/Magazine
Historical Era: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)