Through an interactive map, tours, documents, images, and videos, explore the account of the abolitionist movement in America.

This exhibition tells the story of the American Civil War both nationally and locally in Boston, Massachusetts, through maps, documents, letters, and other primary sources.

April 1865 was a momentous month in American history. On April 9, the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union forces of Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the Civil War. Then on April 14, the victorious President...

A map of the United States and territories east of the Mississippi River in 1790, showing the areas of freedom and slavery at the time, including the territory of the Northwest, free by the Ordinance of 1787.

The Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region after the French and Indian War (1754-1763). The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was the first organization of land in the United States after the first 13 colonies. This ordinance set the important...