Eras: 1917–1929

1917–1929

Close Ranks

W. E. B. Du Bois, “Close Ranks,” The Crisis, 16 (July 1918), 111. Available at https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:511336/. This is the crisis of the world. For all the long years to come

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1917–1929

The Fourteen Points

Woodrow Wilson, Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Conditions of Peace, January 8, 1918. Available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ptid=mdp.39015074797914&view=1up&seq=1. Gentlemen of the Congress: Once more, as repeatedly before, the

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1917–1929

Food Will Win the War

Food Administration Home Card, 1917, U.S. Food Administration, National Archives and Record Administration (National Archives identifier: 20762195). Available at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/20762195. Hang this in your kitchen HOME CARDUNITED STATES FOOD ADMINSTRATIONWHAT

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1917–1929

Open Address to the U.S. Congress

Carrie Chapman Catt, “Open Address to the U.S. Congress,” November 1917, Archives of Women’s Political Communication, Iowa State University. Available at https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2017/03/21/address-to-congress-november-1917/. Woman suffrage is inevitable. Suffragists knew it before

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1917–1929

Wake Up America!

World War I Anti-Draft Pamphlet, August 1917, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia. Available at https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/world-war-i-anti-draft-pamphlet/dAE1fuuw7-VcEA. LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTIONOF THE UNITED STATESWake Up America! Your Liberties Are in Danger! The 13th

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1917–1929

Alice Paul in Prison

Doris Stevens, “Alice Paul in Prison,” in Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 213–226. Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=R-GGAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA210&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false. MR. HART (Prosecuting Attorney for the Government): Sergeant Lee, were

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1917–1929

Espionage Act

U.S. Statutes at Large, volume 40 (1917–1919), 65th Congress, 217–231. Available at https://www.loc.gov/item/llsl-v40/. TITLE I . . . SEC. 2. (a) Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it

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1917–1929

Opposition to War

Senator George Norris, April 4, 1917, Congressional Record, 65th Congress, 1st Session (Washington, DC, 1917), vol. 55, part I, 213, 39. Available at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-CRECB-1917-pt8-v55/GPO-CRECB-1917-pt8-v55-7. While I am most emphatically and

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