This volume of primary documents on the causes of the Civil War presents the history…
Source: 1860 Democratic Party Platform, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American…
Source: Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina…
Source: Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Centenary Edition, Volume II, Marion Mills Miller, ed.,…
Source: Republican Party Platform of 1860, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The…
Source: Frank Crosby, LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, HIS EARLY HISTORY AND POLITICAL CAREER; TOGETHER WITH…
Source: Daniel Webster, The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Constitution: Selected Documents, ed. Herman Belz…
Source: Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes. -04-22, 1820. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mtjbib023795/. I…
Source: William Lloyd Garrison, “The Great Crisis,” The Liberator, 52, 2 (December 29, 1832), 206–207.…
Source: John C. Calhoun, Speeches of John C. Calhoun: delivered in the Congress of the…
Source: Speech of Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina, on the Oregon Bill, Delivered in the…
Source: Congressional Globe, Senate, 33rd Congress, First Session, 281–282, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage. As senators and representatives in…
Source: Congressional Globe, 31st Congress, 1st Session, 244–47, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=022/llcg022.db&recNum=331. Clay presented his resolutions in a…
Source: The Irrepressible Conflict: A Speech Delivered at Rochester, Monday, Oct. 25, 1858 (New York:…
Source: Political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the celebrated campaign of…
Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, ed. Philip S. Foner (Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 1999),…
Source: Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American…
Source: New Letters and Papers of Lincoln, compiled by Paul M. Angle (Boston: Houghton Mifflin…
Source: Duke University Libraries Digital Collections, https://repository.duke.edu/dc/broadsides/bdsla10566.
Source: Henry S. Graham Washington, 1861. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/99447026/.
Join teachers from the Las Vegas area for TAH's first Seminar in Nevada, to be…
Study the Progressive Era through the words and ideas of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and…
Study the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and other documents from America's political history as you…
Source: “Purchase of Louisiana," New-York Evening Post, July 5, 1803, Founders Online, National Archives, accessed…
Join teachers from the Salt Lake City area to dive deeply into the ideas and…
Study the problems that faced Abraham Lincoln regarding a reconstructed Union before, during, and after…
Join area teachers to study the debate over the creation and ratification of the Constitution,…
Source: Senate Journal, First Congress, First Session, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation:…
Source: Congress of the United States In the House of Representatives, Tuesday, the 27th of…
Source: The Federalist: The Gideon Edition, eds. George W. Carey and James McClellan (Indianapolis: Liberty…
Source: The Debates in the several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
There is a strong temptation to consider the story of the U.S. Bill of Rights…
The Colonial Heritage The Massachusetts Body of Liberties, December 1641 The Maryland Act Concerning Religion,…
Source: Sir David Frost, Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews (New York: Harper…
Source: United States Reports. Volume 343, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term,…
Source: Congressional Record, 80th Congress, First Session, Volume 93, Part 1 (Washington D.C. : United…
Source: Samuel I. Rosenman, ed., Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1937 Volume:…
Source: United States Reports. Volume 299, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term,…
Source: United States Reports. Volume 295, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term,…
Source: United States Reports. Volume 272, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term,…
Source: Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt, ed., Stephen Brennan (New York: Skyhorse Publishing,…
Source: Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, Final Version, March 1861, Abraham Lincoln Papers (Series 1: General Correspondence, 1833 to 1916), Library…
Source: James D. Richardson, ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents,…
Source: James D. Richardson, ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents,…
Source: Register of Debates, Senate, 23rd Congress, First Session (Washington, D.C: Gales and Seaton) 66,…
Source: Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, 1804, 26–27. Courtesy…
Source: James Madison, Speech on the Removal Power of the President, [16 June] 1789, Founders…
Source: The Federalist No. 65, [7 March 1788], No. 68, [12 March 1788], No. 70,…
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