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: 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: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, ed. Philip S. Foner (Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 1999),…
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: 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: 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: Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.18604300/.
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: 60 U.S. 933, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/60/393. Mr. Chief Justice Taney delivered the opinion of the court.…
Source: The Union must and shall be preserved. Air.- Star Spangled Banner. H. De Marsan,…
Study deeply the problem of slavery within the context of the Constitutional Convention, the Constitution…
Part II: Teenaged Integration Pioneers Endure a Lonely Spotlight [caption id="attachment_34711" align="alignright" width="217"] Gloria Sloan[/caption]…
Part I: Behind the Scenes, an Interracial Team Plans Integration Ellen Deitz Tucker In May…
While women have historically made up an overwhelming percentage of America's religious practitioners, their roles…
Source: Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart (Washington, D. C., 1879). We…
[caption id="attachment_23685" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Louis Schultze. Dred Scott, 1888. Public domain, from the Missouri Historical…
[caption id="attachment_18260" align="aligncenter" width="321"] Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh and Martin Luther King Jr. at the…
Source: Harold H. Burton to Earl Warren, and Felix Frankfurter to Warren, May 17, 1954,…
Source: Text is from the online version provided by The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research…
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: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: Wisconsin Historical Society, Freedom Summer Collection, Lucile Montgomery Papers, 1963-1967, Historical Society Library Microforms…
Source: Record Group 59, Records of the Department of State, Records Relating to International Information…
Source: Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 13:3 (March 1935), p. 72. Available at http://newdeal.feri.org/opp/opp3572.htm.…
Source: Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 11:8 (August 1933), p. 231. If there were…
Source: 323 U.S. 214 (1944). Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School. https://goo.gl/eMj7eS Mr. Justice Black1…
Source: Ansel Adams, Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans (NY: U.S. Camera,…
Source: Letter from Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy to World Jewish Congress Rescue Department…
Source: Rupert Trimmingham, letters to the editor, Yank, April 28, 1944 and July 28, 1944.…
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Executive Order 9346 Establishing a Committee on Fair Employment Practice,” May…
Source: A. Philip Randolph, “Why Should We March?” Survey Graphic 31 (November 1942), pp 488-89.…
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