Eras: 1917–1929

1917–1929

Myers v. United States

Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52 (1926), https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/272/52/. Mr. Chief Justice Taft delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether under the Constitution the president

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1917–1929

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1913), https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112004024292. . . .The most important factor in getting the right spirit in my administration, next to the insistence upon

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1917–1929

Constitutional Government in the United States

Woodrow Wilson, Notes on Constitutional Government (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1908), https://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435007298870. Chapter III: The President of the United States It is difficult to describe any single part of a

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1917–1929

Politics and Administration

Frank Johnson Goodnow, Politics and Administration: A Study in Government (London: Macmillan, 1914), https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112012281207. The book was published originally in 1900. . . .[P]olitical functions group themselves naturally under two

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1917–1929

Speech to Calvin Coolidge

Ruth Muskrat Bronson, Speech to President Coolidge, 1923, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/stories/articles/2019/4/8/speech-ruth-muskrat-bronson. . . . Mr. President, there have been so many discussions of the so-called Indian problem. May not we, who are

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1917–1929

Speech of Quanah Parker

Daniel A. Becker, “Comanche Civilization with History of Quanah Parker,” Chronicles of Oklahoma 1, no. 1 (1921), 247, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chronicles_of_Oklahoma/HINHAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. Forty years ago my mother died. She captured by Comanche, nine

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1917–1929

Let My People Go!

Carlos Montezuma, MD, “Let My People Go,” Congressional Record, 64th Congress, 1st Session, May 12, 1916, vol. 53, 7843–7845, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1916-pt8-v53/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1916-pt8-v53-9-1.pdf . . . Somehow or other the idea prevails that

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1917–1929

The New Nationalism

Source: Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism (New York: Outlook, 1910), 3–33, available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t01z4xz1g&view=1up &seq=5. We come here today to commemorate one of the epoch-making events of the long struggle for

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1917–1929

What Is Progress?

Source: Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People, ed. W. B. Hale (New York and Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1913),

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Religion
1917–1929

Shall the Fundamentalists Win?

Source: Harry Emerson Fosdick, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” Christian Work 102 (June 10, 1922): 716–722. “Shall the Fundamentalists win?” This morning we are to think of the Fundamentalist controversy which

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