Genres: Letters Diaries & Personal Papers

1917–1929

Fighting in World War I

A. Judson Hanna, “There Were Many German Dead About,” September 20, 1918, in Pennsylvania Voices of the Great War: Letters, Stories, and Oral Histories of World War I, ed. J.

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1917–1929

Letters from a Working Wife

Dwight Fee World War One Correspondence Collection, Center for American War Letters, Chapman University, Orange, CA. September 8th, 1918 Dear Dwight:1 I am just bubbling over with chatter but there

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1917–1929

The Zimmermann Telegram

Source: Telegram from Ambassador Walter Page to President Woodrow Wilson Conveying a Translation of the Zimmermann Telegram, February 24, 1917, General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59,

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1825–1860

Letter from James Madison to Edward Everett

Source: “James Madison to [Edward Everett], 28 August 1830,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/99-02-02-2138. I have duly received your letter in which you refer to the “nullifying doctrine” advocated, as

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1787–1789

Letter from James Madison to George Washington

Source: “From James Madison to George Washington, 16 April 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-09-02-0208. I have been honored with your letter of the 31 of March, and find with

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1929–1941

Letter to John Collier

Mabel Dodge Luhan, Winter in Taos (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1935), 215–220. Last summer when I went to the Snake Dance, I talked with Fred Kabotie of Chimopavi1 about the

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Native Americans
1877–1917

Letter to Harriet Converse

Ely S. Parker, Letter to Harriet Converse, Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society, vol. 7, ed. Frank H. Severance (Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Historical Society, 1905), 524–527, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Publications_of_the_Buffalo_Historical_S/uh08AAAAIAAJ?hl=en For many years

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