Genres: Letters Diaries & Personal Papers

1917–1929

Open Letters to Woodrow Wilson

Source: Editorial: “An Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” The Crisis (March 1913): 236–37; Editorial: “Another Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” The Crisis (September 1913): 232–36, available online at the Hathi

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1764–1787

Draft of The Declaration of Independence

Source: H. A. Washington, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 9 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Taylor and Maury, 1853–54), 1:19–26. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000365325 … Congress proceeded the same day [July 2] to consider

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1764–1787

On the Boston Massacre

On Monday evening, the 5th current, a few minutes after 9 o’clock, a most horrid murder was committed in King Street before the customhouse door by 8 or 9 soldiers

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1789–1825

On the Equality of the Sexes

To the Editors of The Massachusetts Magazine Gentlemen, The following essay is yielded to the patronage of candour. If it hath been anticipated, the testimony of many respectable persons, who saw it in manuscripts as

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1877–1917

Open Letters to Woodrow Wilson

Source: Editorial: “An Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” The Crisis (March 1913): 236–37; Editorial: “Another Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” The Crisis (September 1913): 232–36, available online at the Hathi

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