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      • "Lucy Webb Hayes and Her Influence on Her Era" by Emily Apt Geer
      • "The Role of Lucy Webb Hayes in the Civil War" by Emily Apt Geer
      • Excerpts from: "First Lady: A Life of Lucy Webb Hayes"
    • Hayes' Evolving Views on Anti-Slavery, Reconstruction
      • About Hayes' Evolving Views on Anti-Slavery, Reconstruction
      • Joseph Story & Prigg v. Pennyslvania
      • Hayes at Harvard: Meeting Joseph Story
      • Hayes at Harvard: Meeting John Quincy Adams
      • Hayes, Bryan and the Annexation of Texas
      • Foreshadowing Hayes's Role as a Reconciler
      • The Supposed Southern Faculty of Kenyon College
      • Free African Americans in Ohio
      • Rutherford B. Hayes, The Whigs, and Cracks in Anti-Abolitionism
      • Rutherford B. Hayes: The Young Whig
      • Levi Coffin: the “President of the Underground Railroad”
      • From Vermont to Ohio
      • William Slade: Austin's Abolitionism
      • Violence in Abolitionist America: and the "Compliment Sandwich"
      • Abolition and the Birchard Brothers
      • Introduction to Hayes in Lower Sandusky
      • Martin Van Buren's "Bloodhound War"
      • "No more slave holding presidents -- Slave Territory or Slave States"
      • A Free Country for Free Men
      • Rutherford Adjusts to the Queen City
      • The Fugitive Slave Act
      • Introduction to Fugitive Slave Cases
    • Hayes Children
      • About the Hayes Children
      • Birchard Austin Hayes
      • Webb Cook Hayes
      • Rutherford Platt Hayes
      • Joseph Thompson Hayes
      • George Crook Hayes
      • Fanny Hayes
      • Scott Russell Hayes
      • Manning Force Hayes
    • Hayes Family Genealogy
      • Overview of Hayes Family Genealogy
      • Ancestry of Rutherford B. Hayes by C.W. Hayes
    • Pre-Presidency
      • Hayes Pre-Presidency - 1822-1877
      • Hayes - 1822 - 1861
      • Congressman - 1865 - 1867
      • Governor - 1868 - 1872, 1876 - 1877
    • Civil War
      • Civil War Album of General Rutherford B. Hayes
      • Hayes and the Civil War
      • Civil War Battles of the 23rd O.V.I.
      • Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
      • "The Good Colonel: Rutherford B.Hayes Remembers the Civil War" by Brooks D. Simpson
      • "George Crook and Rutherford B. Hayes: A Friendship Forged in War" by Peter Cozzens
    • Disputed Election of 1876
      • The misconception about Hayes, Reconstruction and Jim Crow
      • Watch: 1876 Election & American Democracy
      • The Disputed Election of 1876
      • Map of 1876 Disputed Election
      • Photo Gallery of Election
      • FAQs about the 1876 Disputed Election
      • 1876 Republican Party Acceptance Speech of Hayes
      • 1876 Concession Speech of Samuel Tilden
      • Election of 1876 and today's perception by Dustin McLochlin
      • "Disputed Election" by Ari Hoogenboom
      • "Another Look at the Election of 1876" by Michael F. Holt
    • Presidency
      • The Posse Comitatus Act and using military as a police force
      • Overview of the Hayes Presidency
      • "Did Rutherford B. Hayes End Reconstruction?" by Thomas J. Culbertson
      • Dining at the White House During the Hayes Administration
      • Inaugural Address of Rutherford B. Hayes
      • "Inaugurating a 'Most Successful Administration"" by Ari Hoogenboom
      • "Curse of Good Times" by Hugh Sidey
      • "Betrayal of the Freedman: Rutherford B. Hayes and the End of Reconstruction" by Roger D. Bridges
      • "Hayes and the Southern Question: An Interpretation" by RBH Presidential Library & Museums Staff
    • Post-Presidency
      • Post-Presidency
      • President Hayes' Horticulture Diaries
    • Scholarly Works
      • Scholarly Works Overview
      • Hayes Lecture on the Presidency
        • "Another Look at the Election of 1876" by Michael F. Holt
      • "Rescued from Oblivion: Three Historians on America's Forgotten Presidents" by Dustin McLochlin, Ph.D
      • "Disputed Election" by Ari Hoogenboom
      • "Inaugurating a 'Most Successful Administration'" by Ari Hoogenboom
      • "Curse of Good Times" by Hugh Sidey
      • "George Crook and Rutherford B. Hayes: A Friendship Forged in War" by Peter Cozzens
      • "The Good Colonel: Rutherford B. Hayes Remembers the Civil War" by Brooks D. Simpson
      • "Rutherford B. Hayes and African-Americans" by Ari Hoogenboom
      • "Hayes and the Southern Question: An Interpretation" by RBH Presidential Library and Museum Staff
      • "Did Rutherford B. Hayes End Reconstruction?" by Thomas J. Culbertson
      • "Lincoln's Evolving Racial Attitudes" by Edna Medford
      • "The Other Leaders in the White House" by Allida Black
      • "A Good Man is Hard to Take: Grover Cleveland - Man of Destiny" by Mark Summers
      • "The View from the Front Porch: William McKinley and the Campaign of 1896" by H. Wayne Morgan
      • "Who is James K. Polk? The Enigma of our Eleventh President" by Robert W. Johannsen
  • Education
    • School Tours
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    • Teen Museum Council
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  • Arboretum
    • About Spiegel Grove
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    • White House Gates
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  • Ohio Obituary Index
    • How to Order Obituaries
    • List of Sources Other Than Newspapers Indexed
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    • Map of Participating Counties
    • History and Scope of the Ohio Obituary Index
    • Genealogical Benefits of Hayes Membership
    • Table of Participating Libraries
    • Notebook and Post-em Features
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