After the Civil War, the challenges presented by a developing industrial economy helped to encourage…
Source: Democratic Party Platform 1860 (Breckinridge Faction), November 6, 1860. Online by Gerhard Peters and…
Source: Victoria Woodhull, “The Coming Woman,” March 29, 1870, New York Herald, p. 8. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6836678/victoria_woodhull_announces_her/…
A. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech to Congress on Social Security, January 17, 1935 https://document-readings.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents+and+Debates/Volume+2/Chapter+22/ch22+FDR+on+Social+Security.mp3…
A. Herbert Hoover, “Principles and Ideals of the United States Government,” October 22, 1928 https://document-readings.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents+and+Debates/Volume+2/Chapter+21/ch21+Hoover+Principles+of+Govt+1928.mp3…
A. President Ulysses S. Grant, First Annual Message, December 6, 1869 https://document-readings.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents+and+Debates/Volume+2/Chapter+17/vol2ch17+Grant+First+Annual+Message.mp3 . . .…
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: 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: 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: 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: Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes. -04-22, 1820. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mtjbib023795/. I…
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: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, ed. Philip S. Foner (Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 1999),…
Source: Political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the celebrated campaign of…
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: 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: 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…
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