This volume of primary documents on the causes of the Civil War presents the history…
Source: Republican Party Platform of 1860, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The…
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, 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: Congressional Globe, Senate, 33rd Congress, First Session, 281–282, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage. As senators and representatives in…
Source: Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American…
Source: Printed Ephemera Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.02000100/
Source: Henry S. Graham Washington, 1861. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/99447026/.
Source: Duke University Libraries Digital Collections, https://repository.duke.edu/dc/broadsides/bdsla10566.
Source: New Letters and Papers of Lincoln, compiled by Paul M. Angle (Boston: Houghton Mifflin…
Source: Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/95682125/.
Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-92043
Source: Library of Congress, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.06002200/.
Source: Ephraim W. Bouve and Henry Prentiss. The Fugitive's Song. Boston, 1845. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-07616
Source: Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.18604300/.
Source: Congressional Globe, Senate, 33rd Congress, 1st Session, 275–180, http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage80. . . . Upon the…
Source: Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Centenary Edition, Volume II, Marion Mills Miller, ed.,…
Source: George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society (Richmond, VA:…
Source: 60 U.S. 933, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/60/393. Mr. Chief Justice Taney delivered the opinion of the court.…
Source: Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Centenary Edition, Volume III, Marion Mills Miller, ed.,…
Source: Speech of the Honorable John H. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Admission of…
Source: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Confederacy: Including the Diplomatic Correspondence,…
Source: Statutes at Large, 16th Congress, 1st Session, 545–48. Available at https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=003/llsl003.db&recNum=586. An act to…
While women have historically made up an overwhelming percentage of America's religious practitioners, their roles…
Source: Ellen G. White, The Ministry of Healing, (Washington, D. C: Review and Herald Publishing…
Source: Rufus King to Colonel Pickering (November 4, 1803) in Records of the Federal Convention…
Source: “Purchase of Louisiana," New-York Evening Post, July 5, 1803, Founders Online, National Archives, accessed…
[caption id="attachment_22532" align="aligncenter" width="475"] Conference of the Big Three at Yalta makes final plans for…
Study the problems that faced Abraham Lincoln regarding a reconstructed Union before, during, and after…
Source: The Bill of Rights: a Transcription, America’s Founding Documents, National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript. The capitalization…
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: Papers of John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum (Pre-Presidential Papers,…
Source: United States Reports. Volume 272, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term,…
Source: Register of Debates, Senate, 23rd Congress, First Session (Washington, D.C: Gales and Seaton) 66,…
Source: Text is from the online version provided by The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research…
Source: 1 Annals of Cong. 424-450 (1789). Mr. MADISON. — I will state my reasons…
Source: George W. Carey and James McClellan, eds., The Federalist: The Gideon Edition, (Indianapolis: Liberty…
Source: Gordon Lloyd ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of Communist Activities in the San…
Source: Record Group 59, Records of the Department of State, Records Relating to International Information…
Source: A copy of the sentencing statement can be found in Jake Kobrick, “The Rosenberg…
Source: Congressional Record, 81st Congress, 2d sess., pp. 7894-95. Available at https://goo.gl/CR8cPU. Mr. President, I…
Source: McCarthy spoke from a prepared text, but he apparently deviated from it at points…
Source: “Fireside Chat,” April 14, 1938. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The…
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Message to Congress on Establishing Minimum Wages and Maximum Hours.” Online…
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