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EXPLORE Visualizing Emancipation

Trace the fall of slavery during the Civil War with this interactive online map of emancipation, drawn from events described in official military correspondence, newspapers, and wartime letters and diaries.

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Annie Oakley with gun
Annie Oakley
Walden, a game
Walden, a game
Sitting Bull, 1885
Tatanka Iyotake: Reimagining Sitting Bull
Walt Whitman, 1870
Walt Whitman
Gertrude Stein, Fanny Butcher, Alice Roullier, Alice B. Toklas, Barney Goodspeed
Making Modernism: Literature and Culture in 20th-Century Chicago
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Mapping the Republic of Letters
"The Bamboula" from Century Magazine, 1886
This Far By Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys
Archibald J. Motley Jr., The Octoroon Girl, 1925.
Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist