History Vault This link opens in a new windowThe module Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War has records focused on the Slave trade and other legal issues pertaining to slavery;a module on the Civil War entitled "Confederate Military Manuscripts and Records of Union Generals and the Union Army"; and Reconstruction and Military Government after the Civil War; and petitions on race, slavery, and free blacks that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867.
The module American Indians and the American West has collections from the 19th Century focused on Indian Removal from 1832-1840, and the U.S. Army and American Indians in the years from the 1850s-1890s.