Source: The Union must and shall be preserved. Air.- Star Spangled Banner. H. De Marsan,…
Source: illustration 20a from the 29th Infantry Combat Narrative by Lieutenant Jack Shea. DOD via…
Source: Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 11:8 (August 1933), p. 231. If there were…
Better Baby contest at the Indiana State Fair, 1931. Indiana State Archives. “Better Baby” contests…
“Pastors for Eugenics,” New York Times, June 6, 1913, 10. Drs. Keigwin and Hillis Invite…
William Allen Rogers, "King Debs," Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1894 July 14, p. 649. Library…
[caption id="attachment_24283" align="alignleft" width="487"] “Runaway slave notices” (Boston: Webster & Southard, C.), 1839. Schomburg Center…
Jackson and the nullifiers . . . Printed and sold, wholesale and retail, at 257…
Anonymous, Dissolution of the Union (Philadelphia: 1832), 21-24. Philadelphia Feb. 22, 1832. Should the nullifiers…
[caption id="attachment_24251" align="alignleft" width="806"] Time table of the Lowell mills, to take effect on and…
Lowell Offering, April 1841 (Lowell, Mass.: Printed by A. Watson), p. 32. Courtesy American Antiquarian…
Public Documents, Containing Proceedings of the Hartford Convention of Delegates . . . (Massachusetts Senate:…
[caption id="attachment_24206" align="alignleft" width="1024"] Cartoon depicting 'An Exciseman,' Location unknown, circa 1790. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty…
The Freeman’s Journal or The North-American Intelligencer (Philadelphia), January 21, 1784. By the tenth section…
The American Gazette, or the Constitutional Journal (Salem, Mass.), July 23, 1776. WATERTOWN, July 22.…
Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Packet or, the General Advertiser (Philadelphia), September 19, 1774. On Friday last the…
The New-York Journal; or, The General Advertiser (New York), March 24, 1774. Friday last, the…
Source: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 25, 1871, pp. 13-15. Bound for New England.…
As it is the business of the contemplative statesman to trace the history of parties…
A perfect theory on this subject would be useful, not because it could be reduced…
No government is perhaps reducible to a sole principle of operation. Where the theory approaches…
Power being found by universal experience liable to abuses, a distribution of it into separate…
In every political society, parties are unavoidable. A difference of interests, real or supposed, is…
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free…
Much has been said, and not without reason, against a consolidation of the states into…
Source: From the Independent gazetteer: This is certainly a very important crisis to the people…
To the PUBLICK. My Countrymen, That important period has now arrived in which political life…
IN the NAME of DEVIL AMEN. WE the Congress of America in Congress assembled, being…
