Susan B. Anthony, “Is It a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote?” in Rochester…
This volume of primary documents on the causes of the Civil War presents the history…
Source: Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina…
Source: 1860 Democratic Party Platform, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American…
Source: Frank Crosby, LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, HIS EARLY HISTORY AND POLITICAL CAREER; TOGETHER WITH…
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: 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: Printed Ephemera Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.02000100/
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/.
Source: The Union must and shall be preserved. Air.- Star Spangled Banner. H. De Marsan,…
A timely study of the organization, goals, activities, and impact of political parties as related…
Learn about how the relationship between American presidents and their parties has shifted over time.…
Learn about how the Founders sought to formalize their ideas of limited government, a new…
Source: Congressional Record, 92nd Congress, First Session, Volume 117, Part 25 (Washington D.C.: United States…
Source: Papers of John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum (Pre-Presidential Papers,…
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…
Woodrow Wilson was probably right when he said that it is easier to speak of…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: George W. Carey and James McClellan, eds., The Federalist: The Gideon Edition, (Indianapolis: Liberty…
Source: McCarthy spoke from a prepared text, but he apparently deviated from it at points…
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Fireside Chat,” June 24, 1938. Online by Gerhard Peters and John…
Source: Herbert Hoover, Addresses Upon the American Road, 1933-1938 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938),…
Source: Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. II, No. 20 (July 1, 1936), pp. 613.…
Source: “The Facts in the Case,” Speech of Alfred E. Smith at the American Liberty…
Source: “Herbert Hoover analyzes 5 periods in the development of the history of the Depression,”…
Source: Herbert Hoover, “The President's News Conference,” July 29, 1932. Online by Gerhard Peters and…
Source: Rutherford B. Hayes: Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877. Online by Gerhard Peters and John…
Source: Republican Party Platform of 1868, May 20, 1868. Online by Gerhard Peters and John…
Source: Alexander H. Stephens, In Public and Private, With Letters and Speeches, Before, During, and…
Source: Andrew Johnson, "Proclamation 136 – Reorganizing a Constitutional Government in Mississippi," June 13, 1865.…
Source: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy Basler, Volume 6 (The Abraham Lincoln…
Originally Broadcast on CBS Reports: Filibuster—Birth Struggle of a Law, March 18, 1964. Available at…
McCarthy spoke from a prepared text, but he apparently deviated from it at points and…
Congressional Record, 74th Cong., 1st sess., Vol. 79 (May 23, 1935), pp. 8040-43. The Share…
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