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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.

EXPLORE other NEH-funded projects

newspaper mastheads: Eastern Utah Advocate, Abilene Reflector, Richmond Dispatch
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Presidents FDR, Reagan, Truman, Eisenhower
The Presidents
photo, black and white: Thomas Edison with phonograph, 1870s
Thomas Edison Papers
Marlene Dietrich in Stage Fright
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
Adolf Hitler presents Hermann Goering with The Falconer (1880) by Hans Makart
The Rape of Europa
Henry "Hank" Greenberg of the Detroit Tigers, 1934 baseball card
The Jewish Americans
1933 Chicago World's Fair poster
Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s
Dictionary of American Regional English, volume 1, cover
Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)