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This image is from the 1840 almanac, and portrays a variety of stereotypically Southern activities.
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This image is from the 1840 almanac, and portrays a variety of stereotypically Southern activities.
Source: The Union must and shall be preserved. Air.- Star Spangled Banner. H. De Marsan, Publisher, … N. Y. Monographic. Online Text. https://www.loc.gov/item/amss.cw106170/. THE UNION MUST AND SHALL BE PRESERVED,
Source: illustration 20a from the 29th Infantry Combat Narrative by Lieutenant Jack Shea. DOD via NARA, 18558249.
Source: Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 11:8 (August 1933), p. 231. If there were those who supposed for a moment that the identity of interests of black and white
Better Baby contest at the Indiana State Fair, 1931. Indiana State Archives. “Better Baby” contests were one way that the eugenics movement became an ordinary part of American life. The
“Pastors for Eugenics,” New York Times, June 6, 1913, 10. Drs. Keigwin and Hillis Invite Richard Bennett to Speak in Churches. The Rev. Dr. A. E. Keigwin announced a platform
William Allen Rogers, “King Debs,” Illus. in: Harper’s Weekly, 1894 July 14, p. 649. Library of Congress, LC-USZ62- 106100.
This image is from the 1839 almanac and is a compendium of multiple advertisements for runaway slaves from Southern newspapers.
Why Yankee land is at a stand, And all in consternation; For in the South they make a rout, And all about Nullification. Sing Yankee doodle doodle doo, Yankee doodle
