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Discovery and Settlement
1650
Colonial America
1763
The Revolution & Confederation
1783
The Founding
1789
Early Republic
1825
Expansion and Sectionalism
1860
Civil War and Reconstruction
1870
Industrialization and Urbanization
1890
Progressivism and World War 1
1929
The Great Depression and the New Deal
1941
World War II
1945
Cold War America
1992
Contemporary America
Expansion and Sectionalism
House Approves Seventeen Amendments
August 24, 1789
The Congress Sends Twelve Amendments to the States
September 25, 1789
Letter to Mrs. Orville Browning
April 01, 1838
Abraham Lincoln
State of the Union Address (1838)
December 03, 1838
Letter to John Johnston
January 12, 1851
Abraham Lincoln
Letter to John D. Johnston
November 4, 1851
Abraham Lincoln
Letter to John Johnston
November 9, 1851
Abraham Lincoln
Letter to John Johnston
November 25, 1851
Abraham Lincoln
Eulogy of Henry Clay
July 06, 1852
Abraham Lincoln
Means of Elevation
1852
Martin R. Delany
A Glance at Ourselves — Conclusion
1852
Martin R. Delany
Things As They Are
1852
Martin R. Delany
State of the Union Address (1854)
December 04, 1854
Letter to Owen Lovejoy
August 11, 1855
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 3rd Debate Part I
September 15, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 3rd Debate Part II
September 15, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 4th Debate Part I
September 18, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 4th Debate Part II
September 18, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 6th Debate Part I
October 13, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 6th Debate Part II
October 13, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 7th Debate Part I
October 15, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Letter to Jesse W. Fell
December 20, 1859
Abraham Lincoln
Slavery and Abolition
The Constitution and the Union
March 07, 1850
Daniel Webster
Missouri Compromise
March 06, 1820
Conquest of Mexico
1848
John C. Calhoun
Disquisition on Government
1840
John C. Calhoun
National Disfranchisement of Colored People
1852
Martin R. Delany
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
February 02, 1848
Letter on the Mexican-American War
July 01, 1847
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison to Thomas Shipley
December 17, 1835
William Lloyd Garrison
Editorial Regarding Walker’s Appeal
January 08, 1831
William Lloyd Garrison
Garrison’s Defense of His Positions
1854
William Lloyd Garrison
Number of Slaves in the Territory Enumerated, 1790...
US Census Bureau
Chapter 3: Labor, Servitude and Slavery
Chapter 13: War with Mexico
Mr. Tallmadge in the Congressional Globe
February 15, 1819
Speech to Congress
February 15, 1819
James Tallmadge Jr.
Letter to John Holmes
April 22, 1820
Thomas Jefferson
Southern Runaway Slave Notices and “Our Peculiar D...
1840
Anonymous
The Webster-Hayne Debates
January, 1830
Daniel Webster
To The Public
January 01, 1831
William Lloyd Garrison
Truisms
January 08, 1831
William Lloyd Garrison
Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality: The...
October, 1831
Maria Stewart
Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall
September 21, 1832
Maria W. Miller Stewart
Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall
September 21, 1832
Maria W. Miller Stewart
“On the Constitution and the Union”
December 29, 1832
William Lloyd Garrison
On the Constitution and the Union
December 29, 1832
William Lloyd Garrison
American Anti-Slavery Society, Declaration of Sent...
December 06, 1833
William Lloyd Garrison
Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society
December, 1833
William Lloyd Garrison
Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
1836
Angelina Grimké
Appeal to Christian Women of the South
1836
Angelina Grimké
Slavery a Positive Good
February 06, 1837
John C. Calhoun
Speech on Abolition Petitions
February 06, 1837
John C. Calhoun
Speech on Abolition Petitions
February 06, 1837
John C. Calhoun
Protest in Illinois Legislature on Slavery
March 03, 1837
Abraham Lincoln
First Inaugural Address (1837)
March 04, 1837
Martin Van Buren
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condi...
1837
Sarah Grimke
Lyceum Address
January 27, 1838
Abraham Lincoln
“The Right of the People, Men and Women, to Petiti...
June 16, 1838
John Quincy Adams
Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Con...
September 28, 1838
William Lloyd Garrison
State of the Union Address (1840)
December 05, 1840
Poster Advertising Sale of a “Valuable Gang of You...
1840
Address to the Slaves of the United States
June 02, 1843
William Lloyd Garrison
Letter to Richard Pakenham, British Minister to th...
April 18, 1844
John C. Calhoun
The American Union
January 10, 1845
William Lloyd Garrison
Annexation
July 30, 1845
John L. O’Sullivan
Letter to Williamson Durley
October 03, 1845
Abraham Lincoln
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An Am...
1845
Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An Am...
1845
Frederick Douglass
Wilmot Proviso
August 12, 1846
David Wilmot
Speech on the Mexican War
December 16, 1846
Andrew Kennedy
American Slavery
October 22, 1847
Frederick Douglass
The War With Mexico: Speech in the United States H...
January 12, 1848
Abraham Lincoln
Speech on the Oregon Bill
June 27, 1848
John C. Calhoun
Speech on the Oregon Bill
June 27, 1848
John C. Calhoun
Speech on the Oregon Bill
June 27, 1848
John C. Calhoun
What Are the Colored People Doing for Themselves?
July 14, 1848
Frederick Douglass
An Address to the Colored People of the United Sta...
September 29, 1848
Frederick Douglass
State of the Union Address Part I (1848)
December 05, 1848
Annual Message to Congress
December 5, 1848
James K. Polk
The Address of Southern Delegates in Congress to t...
February 09, 1849
Frederick Douglass
Prejudice Not Natural: “The American Colonization...
June 08, 1849
Frederick Douglass
Uses and Abuses of the Bible
November 04, 1849
Lucretia Mott
State of the Union Address (1849)
December 04, 1849
Civil Disobedience
1849
Henry David Thoreau
Compromise of 1850
January 29, 1850
Henry Clay
Compromise of 1850
1850
Henry Clay
State of the Union Address (1851)
December 02, 1851
Caution!! Colored people of Boston
1851
"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
July 5, 1852
Frederick Douglass
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
July 05, 1852
Frederick Douglass
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
July 05, 1852
Frederick Douglass
Emigration of the Colored People of the United Sta...
1852
Martin R. Delany
Our Elevation in the United States
1852
Martin R. Delany
First Inaugural Address (1853)
March 04, 1853
Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe
March 08, 1853
Frederick Douglass
Appeal of the Independent Democrats
January 19, 1854
Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress to...
January 19, 1854
Nebraska Territory
January 30, 1854
Stephen A. Douglas
Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Racial Hiera...
February 24, 1854
R.M.T. Hunter
Fragments on Slavery
April 01, 1854
Abraham Lincoln
Kansas-Nebraska Act
May 30, 1854
Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
October 16, 1854
Abraham Lincoln
Speech on the Kansas Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illin...
October 16, 1854
Abraham Lincoln
Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
October 16, 1854
Abraham Lincoln
Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
October 16, 1854
Abraham Lincoln
Kansas: To Those that Desire that Kansas Should be...
November 22, 1854
Sociology for the South, or The Failure of Free So...
1854
George Fitzhugh
Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of Free S...
1854
George Fitzhugh
Broadside Advertisement for Runaway Slave
1854
Disunion
June 15, 1855
William Lloyd Garrison
The Doom of the Black Power
July 27, 1855
Frederick Douglass
Letter to George Robertson
August 15, 1855
Abraham Lincoln
Letter to Joshua F. Speed
August 24, 1855
Abraham Lincoln
The Last Flogging
1855
State of the Union Address (1855)
December 31, 1855
Democratic Party Platforms
June 18, 1860
State of the Union Address (1856)
December 02, 1856
Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Free-Soiler
1856
John L Magee
First Inaugural Address (1857)
March 04, 1857
Dred Scott v. Sandford
March 06, 1857
Roger Taney
Dred Scott v. Sandford
March 06, 1857
Dred Scott v. Sandford
March 06, 1857
Benjamin R. Curtis
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision
May, 1857
Frederick Douglass
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision
June 26, 1857
Abraham Lincoln
Reply to the Dred Scott Decision
June 26, 1857
Abraham Lincoln
State of the Union Address (1857)
December 08, 1857
Free & Slave-holding States and Territories
1857
A. K. Johnston
Cotton is King
March 04, 1858
James Henry Hammond
“Mud Sill” Speech
March 04, 1858
James Henry Hammond
Mud Sill Speech
March 04, 1858
James Henry Hammond
Dred Scott and Disunion
March 12, 1858
William Lloyd Garrison
House Divided Speech
June 16, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
“House Divided” Speech
June 16, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
House Divided Speech
June 16, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Homecoming Speech at Chicago
July 09, 1858
Stephen A. Douglas
“Homecoming” Speech at Chicago
July 09, 1858
Stephen A. Douglas
Speech at Chicago, Illinois
July 10, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Speech in Reply to Douglas at Springfield, Illinoi...
July 17, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Speech at Springfield, Illinois
July 17, 1858
Stephen A. Douglas
Fragment on Slavery
August 1, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1st Debate
August 21, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 2nd Debate
August 27, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 5th Debate
October 07, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Letter to J. N. Brown
October 18, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
“An Irrepressible Conflict”
October 25, 1858
William Seward
Fragment on Slavery
December 1, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
State of the Union Address (1858)
December 06, 1858
African Civilization Society
February, 1859
Frederick Douglass
Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural So...
September 30, 1859
Abraham Lincoln
"The Whole Affair Seems the Work of a Madman"
October 19, 1859
Horace Greeley
Correspondence
October, 1859
Henry Wise
“John Brown Not Insane"
November, 1859
Frederick Douglass
John Brown and the Principle of Nonresistance
December 16, 1859
William Lloyd Garrison
State of the Union Address (1859)
December 19, 1859
Republican Party Platform
May 17, 1860
Republican Party Platform of 1860
May, 1860
Democratic Party Platform of 1860
June 18, 1860
Douglas Faction
Southern Desperation
December 16, 1860
William Lloyd Garrison
South Carolina’s Declaration of the Causes of Sece...
December 24, 1860
Distribution of the Slave Population by State
1860
The Fugitive’s Song
1860
Fragment on the Constitution and Union
January, 1861
Abraham Lincoln
Inaugural Address
February 18, 1861
Jefferson Davis
First Inaugural Address
March 04, 1861
Abraham Lincoln
Defense of Lincoln
May 20, 1864
William Lloyd Garrison
The Folly of Colonization
January 09, 1894
Frederick Douglass
Social Change and Reform
Letter on the Mexican-American War
July 01, 1847
William Lloyd Garrison
Chapter 11: The Nullification Crisis
Editorial Regarding Walker’s Appeal
January 08, 1831
William Lloyd Garrison
Number of Slaves in the Territory Enumerated, 1790...
US Census Bureau
Letter to John Holmes
April 22, 1820
Thomas Jefferson
Inaugural Address (1825)
March 04, 1825
John Quincy Adams
Southern Runaway Slave Notices and “Our Peculiar D...
1840
Anonymous
CIRCULAR: Addressed to Benevolent Ladies of the Un...
December, 1829
Catherine Beecher
The Webster-Hayne Debates
January, 1830
Daniel Webster
To The Public
January 01, 1831
William Lloyd Garrison
Truisms
January 08, 1831
William Lloyd Garrison
Speech on President Jackson’s Veto of the Bank Bil...
July 10, 1832
Henry Clay
Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall
September 21, 1832
Maria W. Miller Stewart
American Anti-Slavery Society, Declaration of Sent...
December 06, 1833
William Lloyd Garrison
Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society
December, 1833
William Lloyd Garrison
A Plea for the West
December 31, 1835
Lyman Beecher
The Nature, Importance, and Means of Eminent Holin...
December 31, 1835
Edward Beecher
Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
1836
Angelina Grimké
“The Right of the People, Men and Women, to Petiti...
June 16, 1838
John Quincy Adams
Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Con...
September 28, 1838
William Lloyd Garrison
The Laboring Classes
1840
Orestes Bronson
“Song of the Spinners” from the Lowell Offering
April, 1841
Anonymous
The Temperance Address
February 22, 1842
Abraham Lincoln
Record of the Organization and Proceedings of The...
1843
Address to the Slaves of the United States
June 02, 1843
William Lloyd Garrison
The American Union
January 10, 1845
William Lloyd Garrison
Massachusetts Lawmakers Investigate Working Condit...
1845
State (Colonial) Legislatures>Massachusetts State Legislature
American Slavery
October 22, 1847
Frederick Douglass
What Are the Colored People Doing for Themselves?
July 14, 1848
Frederick Douglass
Declaration of Sentiments
July 19, 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
An Address to the Colored People of the United Sta...
September 29, 1848
Frederick Douglass
Civil Disobedience
1849
Henry David Thoreau
Time Table for Lowell Mills
1851
Anonymous
"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
July 5, 1852
Frederick Douglass
Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe
March 08, 1853
Frederick Douglass
Sociology for the South, or The Failure of Free So...
1854
George Fitzhugh
Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of Free S...
1854
George Fitzhugh
Marriage Protest
May 02, 1855
Henry Blackwell
The Doom of the Black Power
July 27, 1855
Frederick Douglass
Proclamation
June 09, 1856
San Francisco Vigilance Committee
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision
June 26, 1857
Abraham Lincoln
“Mud Sill” Speech
March 04, 1858
James Henry Hammond
House Divided Speech
June 16, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
“House Divided” Speech
June 16, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Homecoming Speech at Chicago
July 09, 1858
Stephen A. Douglas
Speech in Reply to Douglas at Springfield, Illinoi...
July 17, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Speech at Springfield, Illinois
July 17, 1858
Stephen A. Douglas
Fragment on Slavery
August 1, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1st Debate
August 21, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Letter to J. N. Brown
October 18, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Fragment on Slavery
December 1, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Consistent Democracy
1858
Amasa Walker
Correspondence
October, 1859
Henry Wise
“John Brown Not Insane"
November, 1859
Frederick Douglass
Address at Cooper Institute
February 27, 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Republican Party Platform
May 17, 1860
Republican Party Platform of 1860
May, 1860
Defense of Lincoln
May 20, 1864
William Lloyd Garrison
The Significance of the Frontier in American Histo...
December 31, 1893
Frederick Jackson Turner
Federalism/Union
Speech on Preserving the Union
1850
Henry Clay
National Disfranchisement of Colored People
1852
Martin R. Delany
The Constitution and the Union
March 07, 1850
Daniel Webster
Missouri Compromise
March 06, 1820
South Carolina’s Ordinance of Nullification
November 24, 1832
Force Bill of 1833
March 02, 1833
Excerpts from Ratification Documents of Virginia a...
June 26, 1788
Ratifying Conventions>New York Ratifying Convention
Letter to John Holmes
April 22, 1820
Thomas Jefferson
An Address…Celebrating the Declaration of Independ...
July 04, 1821
John Quincy Adams
Inaugural Address (1825)
March 04, 1825
John Quincy Adams
State of the Union Address (1828)
December 02, 1828
John Quincy Adams
Rough Draft of What is Called the South Carolina E...
December 19, 1828
John C. Calhoun
State of the Union (1829)
December 08, 1829
Andrew Jackson
Remarks in Congress on the "Tariff of Abominations...
January 25, 1830
Robert Y. Hayne
The Webster-Hayne Debates
January, 1830
Daniel Webster
On the Nullifying Doctrine
April 03, 1830
James Madison
State of the Union (1830)
December 06, 1830
Andrew Jackson
State of the Union Address (1831)
December 06, 1831
Andrew Jackson
Worcester v. Georgia
March 23, 1832
John Marshall
Speech on President Jackson’s Veto of the Bank Bil...
July 10, 1832
Henry Clay
State of the Union Address (1832)
December 04, 1832
Andrew Jackson
Proclamation Regarding Nullification
December 10, 1832
Andrew Jackson
“On the Constitution and the Union”
December 29, 1832
William Lloyd Garrison
On the Constitution and the Union
December 29, 1832
William Lloyd Garrison
Lyrics to Jackson and the Nullifiers
1832
Anonymous
Epitaph for the Constitution
1832
Anonymous
Second Inaugural Address (1833)
March 04, 1833
Andrew Jackson
American Anti-Slavery Society, Declaration of Sent...
December 06, 1833
William Lloyd Garrison
State of the Union Address (1834)
December 01, 1834
Andrew Jackson
Speech on Abolition Petitions
February 06, 1837
John C. Calhoun
Farewell Address (1837)
March 04, 1837
Andrew Jackson
First Inaugural Address (1837)
March 04, 1837
Martin Van Buren
Lyceum Address
January 27, 1838
Abraham Lincoln
Poster Advertising Sale of a “Valuable Gang of You...
1840
First Inaugural Address (1841)
March 04, 1841
William Henry Harrison
State of the Union Address (1844)
December 03, 1844
First Inaugural Address (1845)
March 04, 1845
James K. Polk
State of the Union Address (1845)
December 02, 1845
Wilmot Proviso
August 12, 1846
David Wilmot
Spot Resolutions
December 12, 1846
Abraham Lincoln
Speech on the Mexican War
December 16, 1846
Andrew Kennedy
State of the Union Address (1847)
December 07, 1847
Speech on the Oregon Bill
June 27, 1848
John C. Calhoun
Speech on the Oregon Bill
June 27, 1848
John C. Calhoun
State of the Union Address Part I (1848)
December 05, 1848
The Address of Southern Delegates in Congress to t...
February 09, 1849
Frederick Douglass
State of the Union Address (1849)
December 04, 1849
Compromise of 1850
January 29, 1850
Henry Clay
State of the Union Address (1850)
December 02, 1850
Compromise of 1850
1850
Henry Clay
State of the Union Address (1851)
December 02, 1851
Caution!! Colored people of Boston
1851
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
July 05, 1852
Frederick Douglass
Our Elevation in the United States
1852
Martin R. Delany
First Inaugural Address (1853)
March 04, 1853
State of the Union Address (1853)
December 05, 1853
Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress to...
January 19, 1854
Nebraska Territory
January 30, 1854
Stephen A. Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
May 30, 1854
Fragment on Government
July 1, 1854
Abraham Lincoln
Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
October 16, 1854
Abraham Lincoln
Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
October 16, 1854
Abraham Lincoln
Kansas: To Those that Desire that Kansas Should be...
November 22, 1854
An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and...
1854
Sociology for the South, or The Failure of Free So...
1854
George Fitzhugh
Broadside Advertisement for Runaway Slave
1854
Disunion
June 15, 1855
William Lloyd Garrison
The Doom of the Black Power
July 27, 1855
Frederick Douglass
State of the Union Address (1855)
December 31, 1855
Democratic Party Platforms
June 18, 1860
State of the Union Address (1856)
December 02, 1856
Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Free-Soiler
1856
John L Magee
First Inaugural Address (1857)
March 04, 1857
Dred Scott v. Sandford
March 06, 1857
Roger Taney
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision
May, 1857
Frederick Douglass
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision
June 26, 1857
Abraham Lincoln
Reply to the Dred Scott Decision
June 26, 1857
Abraham Lincoln
State of the Union Address (1857)
December 08, 1857
Free & Slave-holding States and Territories
1857
A. K. Johnston
“Mud Sill” Speech
March 04, 1858
James Henry Hammond
Mud Sill Speech
March 04, 1858
James Henry Hammond
Dred Scott and Disunion
March 12, 1858
William Lloyd Garrison
House Divided Speech
June 16, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
“House Divided” Speech
June 16, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
House Divided Speech
June 16, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Homecoming Speech at Chicago
July 09, 1858
Stephen A. Douglas
“Homecoming” Speech at Chicago
July 09, 1858
Stephen A. Douglas
Speech at Chicago, Illinois
July 10, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Speech in Reply to Douglas at Springfield, Illinoi...
July 17, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1st Debate
August 21, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 2nd Debate
August 27, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 5th Debate
October 07, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
“An Irrepressible Conflict”
October 25, 1858
William Seward
State of the Union Address (1858)
December 06, 1858
Letter to Henry L. Pierce, & Others
April 06, 1859
Abraham Lincoln
Letter to Henry Pierce and Others
April 06, 1859
Abraham Lincoln
The Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Author...
September, 1859
Stephen A. Douglas
Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural So...
September 30, 1859
Abraham Lincoln
State of the Union Address (1859)
December 19, 1859
Address at Cooper Institute
February 27, 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Republican Party Platform
May 17, 1860
Republican Party Platform of 1860
May, 1860
Democratic Party Platform of 1860
June 18, 1860
Douglas Faction
South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession
December 20, 1860
State (Colonial) Legislatures>South Carolina Legislature
South Carolina’s Declaration of the Causes of Sece...
December 24, 1860
Distribution of the Slave Population by State
1860
The Fugitive’s Song
1860
Fragment on the Constitution and Union
January, 1861
Abraham Lincoln
Inaugural Address
February 18, 1861
Jefferson Davis
First Inaugural Address
March 04, 1861
Abraham Lincoln
SCOTUS
Worcester v. Georgia
March 23, 1832
John Marshall
Dred Scott v. Sandford
March 6, 1857
Roger Taney
Dred Scott v. Sandford
March 06, 1857
Benjamin R. Curtis
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision
May, 1857
Frederick Douglass
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision
June 26, 1857
Abraham Lincoln
Dred Scott and Disunion
March 12, 1858
William Lloyd Garrison
Congress
Speech on the Mexican-American War
1847
Henry Clay
Speech to Congress
February 15, 1819
James Tallmadge Jr.
Missouri Compromise Act
March 06, 1820
Henry Clay
Remarks in Congress on the "Tariff of Abominations...
January 25, 1830
Robert Y. Hayne
State of the Union (1830)
December 06, 1830
Andrew Jackson
Veto Message of the Bill on the Bank of the United...
July 10, 1832
Andrew Jackson
Speech on President Jackson’s Veto of the Bank Bil...
July 10, 1832
Henry Clay
Speech on Abolition Petitions
February 06, 1837
John C. Calhoun
“The Right of the People, Men and Women, to Petiti...
June 16, 1838
John Quincy Adams
Debate on the National Bank Filibuster
June 30, 1841
United States Congress
Wilmot Proviso
August 12, 1846
David Wilmot
Spot Resolutions
December 12, 1846
Abraham Lincoln
The War With Mexico: Speech in the United States H...
January 12, 1848
Abraham Lincoln
State of the Union Address (1851)
December 02, 1851
Our Elevation in the United States
1852
Martin R. Delany
Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress to...
January 19, 1854
Dred Scott v. Sandford
March 06, 1857
Speech at Springfield, Illinois
July 17, 1858
Stephen A. Douglas
Speech in Reply to Douglas at Springfield, Illinoi...
July 17, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1st Debate
August 21, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
State of the Union Address (1858)
December 06, 1858
Inaugural Address
February 18, 1861
Jefferson Davis
Parties/Elections
Chapter 11: The Nullification Crisis
Chapter 13: War with Mexico
Voter Qualification Law
November 16, 1807
New Jersey State Legislature
First Inaugural Address (1829)
March 04, 1829
Andrew Jackson
State of the Union Address (1833)
December 03, 1833
Andrew Jackson
Message to the Senate Protesting the Censure Resol...
April 15, 1834
Andrew Jackson
State of the Union Address (1834)
December 01, 1834
Andrew Jackson
Farewell Address (1837)
March 04, 1837
Andrew Jackson
Balloting for President
1848
Anonymous
First Inaugural Address (1841)
March 04, 1841
William Henry Harrison
Speech on Assuming Office of the President
April 09, 1841
John Tyler
Debate on the National Bank Filibuster
June 30, 1841
United States Congress
Religious Views: Letter to the Editor of the Illin...
August 11, 1846
Abraham Lincoln
Great Speech of Clay
1847
John L Magee
The Seven Stages of the Office Seeker
1852
Edward Williams Clay
Appeal of the Independent Democrats
January 19, 1854
Autobiography
1854
Martin Van Buren
Disunion
June 15, 1855
William Lloyd Garrison
Democratic Party Platforms
June 18, 1860
Proclamation
June 09, 1856
San Francisco Vigilance Committee
Speech at a Republican Banquet
December 10, 1856
Abraham Lincoln
Letter to Lyman Trumbull
December 28, 1857
Abraham Lincoln
House Divided Speech
June 16, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
House Divided Speech
June 16, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
“Homecoming” Speech at Chicago
July 09, 1858
Stephen A. Douglas
Speech at Chicago, Illinois
July 10, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Speech at Springfield, Illinois
July 17, 1858
Stephen A. Douglas
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July 17, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1st Debate
August 21, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 2nd Debate
August 27, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 5th Debate
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Abraham Lincoln
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William Seward
Letter to Henry Pierce and Others
April 06, 1859
Abraham Lincoln
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September 30, 1859
Abraham Lincoln
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February 27, 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Republican Party Platform
May 17, 1860
Republican Party Platform of 1860
May 17, 1860
Republican Party Platform of 1860
May, 1860
Democratic Party Platform of 1860
June 18, 1860
Douglas Faction
Democratic Party Platform 1860 (Douglas Faction)
June 18, 1860
(Northern) Democratic Party Platform Committee
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November 06, 1860
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William Lloyd Garrison
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December 24, 1860
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March 07, 1850
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1847
Henry Clay
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1852
Martin R. Delany
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September 30, 1859
Abraham Lincoln
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November 24, 1832
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March 02, 1833
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March 04, 1825
John Quincy Adams
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December 02, 1828
John Quincy Adams
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Andrew Jackson
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December 06, 1830
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December 06, 1831
Andrew Jackson
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December 04, 1832
Andrew Jackson
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1832
Anonymous
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December 07, 1835
Andrew Jackson
The Commercial Greatness of the United States
1835
Alexis de Tocqueville
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September 26, 1836
Lowell Factory Girls Association
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December 05, 1836
Andrew Jackson
Slavery a Positive Good
February 06, 1837
John C. Calhoun
First Inaugural Address (1837)
March 04, 1837
Martin Van Buren
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December 05, 1837
State of the Union Address (1840)
December 05, 1840
The Laboring Classes
1840
Orestes Bronson
“Song of the Spinners” from the Lowell Offering
April, 1841
Anonymous
State of the Union Address (1842)
December 06, 1842
Special Message to Congress (Tyler Doctrine)
December 30, 1842
John Tyler
Estranged Labour and The Communist Manifesto
1848
Frederick Engels
First Inaugural Address (1845)
March 04, 1845
James K. Polk
“The Ten Hour System”
February, 1846
Sarah G. Bagley
State of the Union Address (1845)
December 02, 1845
Massachusetts Lawmakers Investigate Working Condit...
1845
State (Colonial) Legislatures>Massachusetts State Legislature
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December 16, 1846
Andrew Kennedy
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December 07, 1847
Great Speech of Clay
1847
John L Magee
State of the Union Address Part II (1848)
December 05, 1848
Civil Disobedience
1849
Henry David Thoreau
Time Table for Lowell Mills
1851
Anonymous
State of the Union Address (1852)
December 06, 1852
First Inaugural Address (1853)
March 04, 1853
Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe
March 08, 1853
Frederick Douglass
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September 14, 1853
William Seward
Kansas-Nebraska Act
May 30, 1854
First Inaugural Address (1857)
March 04, 1857
Speech at Springfield, Illinois
July 17, 1858
Stephen A. Douglas
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1st Debate
August 21, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Democratic Party Platform of 1860
June 18, 1860
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December 31, 1893
Frederick Jackson Turner
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March 07, 1850
Daniel Webster
Disquisition on Government
1840
John C. Calhoun
National Disfranchisement of Colored People
1852
Martin R. Delany
What a Revival of Religion Is
1835
Charles Finney
Letter on the Mexican-American War
July 01, 1847
William Lloyd Garrison
Garrison’s Defense of His Positions
1854
William Lloyd Garrison
An Address…Celebrating the Declaration of Independ...
July 04, 1821
John Quincy Adams
Inaugural Address (1825)
March 04, 1825
John Quincy Adams
To The Public
January 01, 1831
William Lloyd Garrison
Truisms
January 08, 1831
William Lloyd Garrison
American Anti-Slavery Society, Declaration of Sent...
December 06, 1833
William Lloyd Garrison
Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society
December, 1833
William Lloyd Garrison
A Plea for the West
December 31, 1835
Lyman Beecher
Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
1836
Angelina Grimké
Appeal to Christian Women of the South
1836
Angelina Grimké
Lyceum Address
January 27, 1838
Abraham Lincoln
“The Right of the People, Men and Women, to Petiti...
June 16, 1838
John Quincy Adams
Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Con...
September 28, 1838
William Lloyd Garrison
The Temperance Address
February 22, 1842
Abraham Lincoln
Record of the Organization and Proceedings of The...
1843
The American Union
January 10, 1845
William Lloyd Garrison
Religious Views: Letter to the Editor of the Illin...
August 11, 1846
Abraham Lincoln
American Slavery
October 22, 1847
Frederick Douglass
What Are the Colored People Doing for Themselves?
July 14, 1848
Frederick Douglass
The Address of Southern Delegates in Congress to t...
February 09, 1849
Frederick Douglass
Uses and Abuses of the Bible
November 04, 1849
Lucretia Mott
Civil Disobedience
1849
Henry David Thoreau
Religious Experience
1850
Sojourner Truth
"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
July 5, 1852
Frederick Douglass
Baconianism and the Bible
August 11, 1852
Benjamin Morgan Palmer
Emigration of the Colored People of the United Sta...
1852
Martin R. Delany
State of the Union Address (1857)
December 08, 1857
Fragment on Slavery
December 1, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Letter to Henry L. Pierce, & Others
April 06, 1859
Abraham Lincoln
Correspondence
October, 1859
Henry Wise
“John Brown Not Insane"
November, 1859
Frederick Douglass
John Brown and the Principle of Nonresistance
December 16, 1859
William Lloyd Garrison
The Revelation on Celestial Marriage: Trouble Amon...
1875
Ann Eliza Young
Mormonism and Jesuitism
October 14, 1890
F.W. Gunsaulus
Immigration
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1852
Martin R. Delany
First Inaugural Address (1857)
March 04, 1857
Democratic Party Platform of 1860
June, 1860
Breckinridge Faction
Presidency
State of the Union Address (1817)
December 12, 1817
James Monroe
State of the Union Address (1816)
November 16, 1818
James Monroe
First Inaugural Address (1829)
March 04, 1829
Andrew Jackson
State of the Union (1829)
December 08, 1829
Andrew Jackson
State of the Union (1830)
December 06, 1830
Andrew Jackson
Proclamation Regarding Nullification
December 10, 1832
Andrew Jackson
Lyrics to Jackson and the Nullifiers
1832
Anonymous
Epitaph for the Constitution
1832
Anonymous
Speeches on the Removal Power
March 07, 1834
Henry Clay
Message to the Senate Protesting the Censure Resol...
April 15, 1834
Andrew Jackson
First Inaugural Address (1841)
March 04, 1841
William Henry Harrison
Speech on Assuming Office of the President
April 09, 1841
John Tyler
Special Message to Congress on Mexican Relations
May 11, 1846
James K. Polk
Speech on the War with Mexico
January 12, 1848
Abraham Lincoln
State of the Union Address (1858)
December 06, 1858
State of the Union Address (1860)
December 03, 1860
James Buchanan
South Carolina’s Declaration of the Causes of Sece...
December 24, 1860
Political Chart: Presidential Campaign
1860
Inaugural Address
February 18, 1861
Jefferson Davis
First Inaugural Address
March 04, 1861
Abraham Lincoln
Defense and War
Conquest of Mexico
1848
John C. Calhoun
Speech on the Mexican-American War
1847
Henry Clay
Chapter 13: War with Mexico
First Inaugural Address (1837)
March 04, 1837
Martin Van Buren
Letter to the Editors of the National Intelligence...
April 17, 1844
Henry Clay
First Inaugural Address (1845)
March 04, 1845
James K. Polk
Debate on the Constitutionality of the Mexican War
May 12, 1846
United States Congress
Special Message to Congress on Mexican Relations
May 11, 1846
James K. Polk
Special Message to Congress on Mexican Relations
May 11, 1846
James K. Polk
Spot Resolutions
December 12, 1846
Abraham Lincoln
Speech on the Mexican War
December 16, 1846
Andrew Kennedy
Great Speech of Clay
1847
John L Magee
Speech on the War with Mexico
January 12, 1848
Abraham Lincoln
First Inaugural Address (1849)
March 05, 1849
First Inaugural Address (1857)
March 04, 1857
"The Whole Affair Seems the Work of a Madman"
October 19, 1859
Horace Greeley
“John Brown Not Insane"
November, 1859
Frederick Douglass
South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession
December 20, 1860
State (Colonial) Legislatures>South Carolina Legislature
First Inaugural Address
March 04, 1861
Abraham Lincoln
Recollections of the War
1885
Ulysses S. Grant
Gender and Equality
Disquisition on Government
1840
John C. Calhoun
Voter Qualification Law
November 16, 1807
New Jersey State Legislature
Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality: The...
October, 1831
Maria Stewart
Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall
September 21, 1832
Maria W. Miller Stewart
Letters and Journals from the Oregon Trail
June 27, 1836
Narcissa Whitman
