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Silk Marriage Quilt Created by Hannah Callender and Two Cousins, 1761
Hannah Callender, Excerpt from Diary Entry, February 1758
Hannah Callender, Excerpt from Diary Entry, October 1758
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, Essay No. 397, June 5, 1712
Susanna Wright, Excerpt from “Anna Boylens Letter to King Henry the 8th,” c. 1720
Hannah Griffitts, “The Female Patriots,” 1768
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Edward Kemble, “San Francisco, 1848, First Drops of the Golden Shower,” Sacramento Daily Union, Saturday, March 22, 1873
James K. Polk, Excerpt from State of the Union Address, December 5, 1848
“O Boys I’ve Struck It Heavy!” (sketch from miner’s journal), 1853
“Chinese, Gold Mining in California” (image from magazine; author and date unknown)
Foreign Miners License Stub, 1853
An Act to Prohibit Natives from Leaving the Islands,” The Polynesian, September 7, 1850
Excerpt from the Diary of Miner Alfred Doten, December 22, 1851
Louise Clappe, Excerpt from the “Shirley Letters,” 1851
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“An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas,” May 30, 1854
“Proslavery Men Voting in Kansas,” c. 1855
Excerpt from Sara T. L. Robinson, Kansas; Its Interior and Exterior Life, 1856
Atchison Squatter Sovereign, March 6, 1855, and June 10, 1856
Excerpt from Kansas Territorial Census, District 8, February 1855
Excerpt from John Brown’s Letter, June 1856
John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Kansas Emigrant Song,” 1854
Stephen A. Douglas, Extracts from Speeches in the Senate, January 30, 1854, and March 3, 1854
Abraham Lincoln, Excerpts from the Peoria Speech, October 16, 1854
Charles Robinson, Excerpts from July Fourth Oration, 1855, Lawrence Herald of Freedom, July 7, 1855
General John Calhoun’s Speech to the Free-State Constitutional Convention, Topeka Kansas, 1855
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Abraham Lincoln, Excerpt from “House Divided,” June 16, 1858
William Seward, Excerpt from “On the Irrepressible Conflict,” October 25, 1858
Mississippi Declaration of the Causes of Secession, January 9, 1861
Alexander H. Stephens, Excerpt from “Cornerstone” Speech, March 21, 1861
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
Alexander H. Stephens, Excerpt from A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Causes, Character, Conduct and Results, 1868
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Plan of Insurrection,” November 1, 1859
Greenville (SC) Southern Enterprise, Letter to the Citizens of the Greenville District, November 22, 1860
New York Times, “Peaceable Secession,” December 18, 1860
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Joseph Cousselle and Louisa Langley, Marriage License, 1853
Ship’s Passenger List, American Eagle, 1853
Internal Revenue Service, Nevada Tax List, Nevada, 1865
Fire Losses, Helena, Lewis & Clark County, Montana Territory, 1874
U.S. Manuscript Census, Gallatin County, Bozeman, Montana, 1880
Louisa Cousselle, Excerpt from Will & Probate, 1883 and 1886
“Death of Mrs. Lou,” Avant Courier (Bozeman, Montana Territory), June 26, 1886
Louisa Cousselle’s Gravestone, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
Tax List, Helena, Lewis & Clark County, Montana Territory, 1867
U.S. Census Bureau, Census List for Helena, Lewis & Clark County, Montana Territory, 1870
“Montana Mention,” Daily Yellowstone Journal (Miles City, Montana), March 6, 1886
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“Bodies Indicate Instant Death of All 55 Miners,” Trinidad Advertiser, October 12, 1910
Frances Flora Bond Palmer, Across the Continent: “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way,” 1868
Views of the Coal-Powered West: Photos of Pueblo and Denver
Two Photographs of Primero, Colorado
Indemnity Ledger for Victims of the Delagua Explosion, Victor-American Fuel Company, 1910
Newspaper Editors Weigh In on Preventing Future Disasters: The Denver Republican and the Fort Collins Courier
Letter from Robert Uhlich, Local Union Leader, to the Deputy Labor Commissioner of Colorado, July 17, 1910
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War Department, Commission on Training Camp Activities, When You Go Home — Take This Book with You, 1918
Katherine Bement Davis, Excerpt from “Social Hygiene and the War: Women’s Part in Social Hygiene,” 1918
Allison T. French, Excerpt from “The Need for Industrial Homes for Women,” 1919
American Social Hygiene Association et al., The End of the Road, 1919
State ex rel. Woods v. Macintosh, Supreme Court of Washington, 1918
Ethel M. Watters, Excerpt from “The Problem of the Woman Venereal Disease Carrier,” 1919
Wilbur A. Sawyer, Excerpt from “Venereal Disease Control in the Military Forces,” 1919
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Acme Lithographic Company, “It’s Up to You—Protect the Nation’s Honor,” c. 1918
Arthur G. McCoy, “If I Fail He Dies,” 1918
“Ring It Again—Buy U.S. Gov’t Bonds,” 1917
Adolph Treidler, “Our Flags, Beat Germany,” 1918
Harry Hopps, “Destroy This Mad Brute: Enlist,” 1917
L. N. Britton, “They Are Looking to Us for Help,” 1917
U.S. Treasury Department, “Remember Your First Thrill of American Liberty,” 1917
Charles Gustrine, “True Sons of Freedom,” 1918
Herbert Andrew Paus, “The Woman’s Land Army of America,” c. 1918
James Montgomery Flagg, “Wake Up, America! Civilization Calls,” 1917
Richard Fayerweather Babcock, “Join the Navy, the Service for Fighting Men,” 1917
Ernest Fuhr, “You Kept Fit and Defeated the Hun—Now Set a High Standard,” c. 1918–1920
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Judge Matthew J. Perry Jr., Excerpts from Oral History Interview, October 2010
“Racial Situation in the United States,” Army Reports, 1944–1945
Memorandum for Major General S. G. Henry, Army Assistant Chief of Staff, “Participation of Negro Soldiers in the Post-war Military Establishment,” 1944
Spencer Moore, 92nd Buffalo Soldier Division, Letters to Mom and Dad, 1944–1945
Joe Willie Johnson, Letters to Wife, Mary Alice Hubbard Johnson, from Italy, 1944–1945
Letter to President Truman from the Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training, National Archives, 1948
Harry S. Truman, Executive Order 9981, On the Desegregation of the Military, 1948
Felix Goodwin, Excerpts from Oral History Interview, 1998
Joseph Hairston, Excerpts from Oral History Interview, Washington, DC, 1998, 2010
Harold Montgomery, Excerpts from Oral History Interview, Washington, DC, 1997
Army Service Forces Manual M5: Leadership and the Negro Soldier, October 1944
Strom Thurmond, Speech at the Alabama Convention of States’ Rights Democrats, July 17, 1948
Thomas P. Stoney, Excerpts from Oral History Interview, Charleston, SC, 2009
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Testimony of Dr. Fredric Wertham, author of Seduction of the Innocent (1954), before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, April 21, 1954
Testimony of William M. Gaines, publisher of Entertaining Comics Group, New York, before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, April 21, 1954
Juvenile Delinquency Statistics for the 1950s compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
“12 States Enact Laws to Ban or Curb Comic Books,” Oakland Tribune, 1955
Interim Report of the Committee on the Judiciary Regarding Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency, 1955
The Comic Book Code, 1954
American Civil Liberties Union, “Censorship of Comic Books: A Statement,” 1955
American Civil Liberties Union, “The Freedom to Game,” 2012
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John Stennis, Statement Introducing the Stennis Amendment, January 27, 1970
Abraham Ribicoff, Statement Supporting the Stennis Amendment, February 9, 1970
Exchange between Walter Mondale and Abraham Ribicoff Regarding the Stennis Amendment, February 9, 1970
Alexander M. Bickel, “Desegregation: Where Do We Go from Here?” New Republic, February 7, 1970
“The Debate over School Desegregation,” an Exchange between Marian Wright Edelman and Alexander Bickel, New Republic, March 21, 1970
Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, U.S. Supreme Court, September 5, 1969
“Percentage of African Americans Attending Public Schools at Increasing Levels of Isolation, Fall 1968 and Fall 1970,” Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Press Release, June 18, 1971
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The Diggers, “Trip Without a Ticket,” Realist, August 1968
Chuck Gould, “Free Store Merchandise,” Gould Gallery, Digger Archives, c. 1967
The Diggers, The Quintessential Digger Manifesto
Broadside, The Digger Papers No. 24, “Love and Food,” c. 1967
The Diggers, “Time to Forget,” San Francisco, c. Fall 1966
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Benjamin Rush, “A Moral and Physical Thermometer: Or, a Scale of the Progress of Temperance and Intemperance,” 1790
Nathaniel Currier, Temperance Prints, c. 1835–1848
Leonard Marsh, The Physiology of Intemperance: An Address before the Temperance Society of the University of Vermont, June 29, 1841, 1841
Abraham Lincoln, Address before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society, 1842
“Come All Ye Young Teetotallers!” (temperance song), 1843
James Root, The Horrors of Delirium Tremens, 1844
Timothy Shay Arthur, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There, 1854
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Denis Kearney and H. L. Knight, “Appeal from California. The Chinese Invasion. Workingmen’s Address,” Indianapolis Times, February 28, 1878
Jerome A. Hart, “The Sand Lot and Kearneyism,” 1931
James G. Blaine, “Chinese Immigration to the Pacific Slope,” February 14, 1879
Thomas Nast, “Every Dog” (No Distinction of Color) “Has His Day,” Harper’s Weekly, February 8, 1879
Chinese Exclusion Act, Chapter 126, 1882
Huang Zunxian, “Expulsion of the Immigrants,” 1884
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William Bent, Reports, 1858–1859
Black Kettle, Letter to Major Samuel Colley, August 29, 1864
Simeon Whiteley, Transcription from the Camp Weld Council, September 28, 1864
“Battle of Sand Creek,” Denver Rocky Mountain News, December 17, 1864
Silas Soule, Letter to Edward Wynkoop, December 18, 1864
Little Bear, Account of Sand Creek Fight, in Letter from George Bent to George Hyde, April 14, 1906
S. J. Anthony, Letter to Brother, December 23, 1864
Testimony of John M. Chivington to the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, April 26, 1865
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David Beem, Letter to His Wife, July 5, 1863
Samuel Wilkeson, “Details from Our Special Correspondent,” New York Times, July 6, 1863
“The War in Pennsylvania” and Editorial, Fayetteville Observer, July 13, 1863
Alexander Gardner, “Dead Confederate Soldier in Devil’s Den” (photograph), July 1863
“The Battle of Gettysburg — Longstreet’s Attack,” Harper’s Weekly, August 1863
James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America, 1895
Matilda Pierce Alleman, At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle. A True Narrative, 1889
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Luna Kellie, “Stand Up for Nebraska” (speech), January 1894
Arthur L. Kellogg, “A Hayseed Like Me” (song lyrics), 1890
Henry Moyer, “The National Cow” (cartoon), Coin’s Financial School, 1894
Henry Demorest Lloyd, “The Millions Produce Wealth; Only the Tens Have It” (campaign speech), October 1894
People’s Party, Omaha Platform, July 4, 1892
Southern Mercury, Editorials and Letters, December 1894–January 1895
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A. Philip Randolph, “Why Should We March?,” 1942
Major General Clayton B. Vogel, “Enlistment of Navajo Indians,” March 6, 1942
George Takei, Life at the Rohwer Internment Camp, 1994
War Production Coordinating Committee, “It's a Tradition with Us, Mister!” (poster), c. 1942
Office of War Information and Office of Price Administration, Propaganda Posters, 1943
Leslie Tresham and Delana Jensen Close, Accounts about Wartime Jobs
“Near-Martial Law in LA Riot Zones,” Los Angeles Daily News, June 9, 1943
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Theodore Sorensen, Summary of Agreed Facts and Premises, Possible Courses of Action and Unanswered Questions, October 17, 1962
Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev, Letter to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, October 24, 1962
Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, Letter to Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev, October 26, 1962
Executive Committee Meeting Excerpts, October 27, 1962
U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Letter to Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev, October 27, 1962
Letters between Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev and Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, October 28, 1962
Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, Remarks during a Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Havana, January 11, 1992
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Barry Goldwater, Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention, San Francisco, July 16, 1964
Charles Mohr, “Goldwater View Is ‘Frightening’ to Rockefeller, New York Times, July 18, 1964
Milton Eisenhower, “Memorandum for the Record,” July 17, 1964
“Goldwater ‘Extremism’ Speech Interpreted by Eisenhower,” Albuquerque Journal, July 20, 1964
Herb Block, “An American Tragedy” (cartoon), Washington Post, June 5, 1964
“Daisy” (campaign ad), September 7, 1964
Eric Benson, “The Goldwater Campaign: Catching Up with Harry Jaffa,” New York Magazine, October 14, 2012
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Letters from General Jeffery Amherst to William Johnson, August 9, 1761
James Kenny, Journal Entries, July to October 1761
Alexander Henry, Alexander Henry’s Travels and Adventures in the Years 1760–1776
Jehu Hay, Diary of the Siege of Detroit, May 1, 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763
Letter from William Johnson to General Thomas Gage, October 31, 1764
Benjamin West, “The Indians Giving a Talk to Colonel Bouquet” and “The Indians Delivering up the English Captives to Colonel Bouquet” (engravings), 1766
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James Bowdoin, Samuel Pemberton, and Joseph Warren, Boston’s Town Meeting Report from A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, 1770
Colonel William Dalrymple, A Fair Account of the Late Unhappy Disturbance at Boston in New England, 1770
Henry Pelham, “The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or the Bloody Massacre,” 1770
“A Monumental Inscription on the Fifth of March,” Broadside Posted in Boston, 1772
John Adams, Unpublished Open Letter to Governor Hutchinson, July 1773
Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, March 6, 1775
Thomas Bolton, Satirical Oration, Delivered March 15, 1775
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Elizabeth Drinker, Diary Entries, August 23–October 24, 1793
Matthew Carey, A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia; with a Statement of the Proceedings that Took Place on the Subject in Different Parts of the United States, 1793
Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793: And a Refutation of Some Censures Thrown upon Them in Some Late Publications, 1794
Broadside Posted in Burlington, New Jersey, 1793
Anonymous, An Earnest Call: Occasioned by the Alarming Pestilential Contagion, Addressed to the People of Philadelphia, 1793
Noah Webster, A Collection of Papers on the Subject of Bilious Fevers, Prevalent in the United States for a Few Years Past, 1796
Letters between Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Rush, 1800
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House of Representatives Committee on Indian Affairs, “Removal of Indians,” February 24, 1830
Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen, Speech on Proposed Indian Removal Act, April 9, 1830
Aptekezhick (Half Day), “Journal of the Proceedings of a Treaty between the United States and the United Tribe of Pottawottomies, Chippeways & Ottawas,” September 16, 1833
Chapine, Addresses to Michigan Territorial Governor George Porter, October 19–25, 1833
John Ross et al., “Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee Nation,” June 22, 1836
“Andrew Jackson as the Great Father” (cartoon), c. 1835
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Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, “Slavery and Involuntary Servitude,” 1865
“The New Slavery in the South: An Autobiography by a Georgia Negro Peon,” Independent, February 25, 1904
Convicts Working on a Railroad (postcard photograph), 1915
Letter from Ezekiel Archey and Ambrose Haskins to the President of the Alabama Board of Inspectors of Convicts, January 26, 1884
“Juvenile Convicts at Work in a Field” (photograph), 1903
Recordings of Women Prisoners Singing at the Goree State Prison Farm in Texas, 1939
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Leo Crane, Photograph of Laguna Fiesta, September 1920
Letter from Leo Crane to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, October 5, 1920
Letter from Pablo Abeita to Leo Crane, September 25, 1920
Letter from Father Schuster to Leo Crane, September 28, 1920
Letter from Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Leo Crane, October 14, 1920
Letter from Leo Crane to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, October 15, 1921
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Harry Emerson Fosdick, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” (sermon), 1922
J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism, 1923
James M. Gray, Modernism: A Foe to Good Government, 1924
Billy Sunday, Americanism, 1922
“Christian Civilization” (cartoon), 1922
“The Church Caucasian,” 1924
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Curtis B. Munson, “Japanese on the West Coast” (government report), November 1941
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 9066, February 19, 1942
Dr. Seuss, “Waiting for the Signal from Home” (cartoon), PM Magazine, February 13, 1942
Office of War Information, Japanese Relocation, War Relocation Authority Film, 1943
Justices Robert Jackson, and Hugo Black, Dissent in Korematsu v. United States, December 18, 1944
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Montgomery, Alabama City Code, 1956
Petition to the Montgomery City Council, “Negroes’ Most Urgent Needs,” December 6, 1955
Video of Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy, December 1955
Interview with Rosa Parks, November 14, 1985
Two Working Women Reflect on Why They Participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott (oral histories), January 1956
Montgomery Improvement Association, Meeting Minutes, 1956
“Integrated Bus Suggestions” (flyer), December 19, 1956
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Excerpts from the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Congressional Testimonies from Myra C. Hacker and Senator Edward Kennedy, 1965
Congressional Testimonies from Representatives Robert Sweeney and Emanuel Celler, 1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Remarks at the Signing of the Immigration Bill, 1965
Interview with Ulises H., a Mexican Migrant, 1992
Interview with Leslie Casterline, Texas Business Owner and Fisherman, 2008
Changes in Immigration from 1820–2009 (chart)
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Alexander McGillivray, Letter to West Florida Governor Arturo O’Neill, January 1, 1784
Alexander McGillivray and Cherokee, Creek, and Chickasaw Chiefs, Letter to Spanish King Carlos III, July 10, 1785
Alexander McGillivray, Letter to Congressional Commissioner Andrew Pickens, September 5, 1785
Alexander McGillivray, Letter to West Florida Governor Arturo O’Neill, May 12, 1786
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