Eras: 1917–1929

1917–1929

Debating Darwinism: God and Evolution

William Jennings Bryan, “God and Evolution: Charge That American Teachers of Darwinism ‘Make the Bible a Scrap of Paper,’” New York Times (February 26, 1922) 1; 11. Available at http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow2/trials_details.php?id=7#:~:text=Newspapers,Answer%20to%20Bryan%20on%20Evolution.

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1917–1929

Laying to Rest an Unknown American Soldier

Address of the President of the United States at the Burial of an Unknown American Soldier, Arlington Cemetery, November 11, 1921 (Government Printing Office, 1921). Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t8nc6t24q. Mr. Secretary

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1917–1929

The Case against the ‘Reds’

Attorney General Palmer, “The Case against the ‘Reds,’ ” Forum (February 1920), 173–185. Available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030769403&view=1up&seq=179. In this brief review of the work which the Department of Justice has undertaken,

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1917–1929

Defending the Versailles Peace Treaty

Woodrow Wilson, Address at the City Hall Auditorium in Pueblo, September 25, Available at Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley (eds.), The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/318184. Mr. Chairman and fellow

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1917–1929

Navigating the North

“Some Don’ts,” Chicago Defender, May 17, 1919. Available at: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/migrations/text6/chicagodefender1919.pdf. —————SOME DON’TS————— . . . A fierce agitation is being waged by certain classes of citizens against immigration of southern

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1917–1929

Returning Soldiers

W. E. B. Du Bois, “Returning Soldiers,” The Crisis 18 (May 1919), 13. Available at: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:512264/. We are returning from war! THE CRISIS and tens of thousands of black men

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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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