The Divided States of America

Table of contents :
Before Columbus: 525 Million Years Ago to 1492. Burgess shale fossils
Bald eagle
Clovis stone points
Mississippian birdman copper plate. --
New World: 1492 to Mid-Eighteenth Century. Christopher Columbus's portrait
Spanish Mission hide painting of Saint Anthony
Pocahontas's portrait
Plymouth Rock fragment
Slave shackles
Americæ Nova Tabula (map). --
Let Freedom Ring: 1760s to 1820s. Declaration of Independence
George Washington's uniform and sword
Benjamin Franklin's walking stick
Gilbert Stuart's Lansdowne portrait of George Washington
Star-Spangled Banner
Thomas Jefferson's bible. --
Young Nation: Late Eighteenth century to 1850s. Conestoga wagon
Eli Whitney's cotton gin
John Deere's steel plow
Isaac Singer's sewing machine
Nauvoo Temple sun stone. --
Sea to Shining Sea: 1800 to 1850s. Lewis and Clark's pocket compass
John Bull steam locomotive
Samuel Colt's revolver
Morse-Vail telegraph
Mexican army coat
Gold discovery flake from Sutter's Mill
Martha, the last passenger pigeon. --
A House Divided: 1850 to 1865. Frederick Douglass's ambrotype portrait
Harriet Tubman's hymnal and shawl
Emancipation Proclamation pamphlet
Christian Fleetwood's Medal of Honor
Appomattox Court House furnishings
Abraham Lincoln's hat. --
Manifest Destiny: 1845 to Early Twentieth Century. Albert Bierstadt's Among the Sierra Nevada, California
King Kamehameha III's feather cape
American buffalo
Sitting Bull's drawing book
Bugle from the U.S.S. Maine. --
Industrial Revolution: 1865 to Early Twentieth Century. Alexander Graham Bell's telephone
Thomas Edison's lightbulb
Frédéric Bartholdi's Liberty
Andrew Carnegie's mansion
Ford model T
Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk Flyer
Bakelizer plastic maker. --
Modern Nation: 1870s to 1929. James Whistler's Harmony in Blue and Gold: the Peacock Room
Bernice Palmer's Kodak Brownie camera
Helen Keller's watch
Suffragists' "Great Demand" banner
Ku Klux Klan robe and hood
World War I gas mask
Louis Armstrong's trumpet
Scopes "Monkey Trial" photograph
Spirit of St. Louis
Babe Ruth autographed baseball. --
Great Depression: 1929 to 1940. Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Fireside Chat" microphone
John L. Lewis's union badge
Marian Anderson's mink coat
Dorothy's ruby slippers
Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land". --
Greatest Generation: 1941 to 1945. U.S.S. Oklahoma postal hand stamps
Spirit of Tuskegee
"We Can Do It!" poster of Rosie the riveter
Japanese American World War II internment art
Audie Murphy's Eisenhower jacket
Enola Gay. --
Cold War: 1946 to 1991. Fallout shelter
Mercury Friendship 7
Huey helicopter
Pandas from China
Berlin Wall fragment. --
New Frontiers: 1950s to 1980s. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine
Jacqueline Kennedy's inaugural ball gown
Julia Child's kitchen
The pill and its dispenser
Neil Armstrong's space suit
"Mr. Cycle" PCR machine
Space shuttle Discovery. --
Civil Rights: 1947 to Now. Greensboro lunch counter
Muhammad Ali's boxing gear
Bob Dylan poster by Milton Glaser
Cesar Chavez's union jacket
Gay civil rights picket signs
AIDS memorial quilt panel. --
Pop Culture: Mid-Twentieth Century to Now. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse
RCA television set
Chuck Berry's Gibson guitar
Katharine Hepburn's Oscars
Hope diamond
Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe
McDonald's golden arches sign
Kermit the Frog
Star Wars' R2-D2 and C-3PO. --
Digital Age: 1945 to Now. ENIAC
Apple's Macintosh computer
Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway. --
New Millennium: 2000 to the Future. New York Fire Department engine door from September 11
Shepard Fairey's Barack Obama "Hope" portrait
David Boxley's Tsimshian totem pole
Giant Magellan telescope --
What's not included? --
Old things, new studies --
Object specifications and photographic credits --
Time line of American history.

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