Amendment I. Ratified December 15, 1791 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,…
Source: 319 U.S. 586 (1943), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/319/624. All footnotes added by the editors. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered…
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: Republican Party Platform of 1860, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The…
Source: Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Centenary Edition, Volume II, Marion Mills Miller, ed.,…
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, 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: 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…
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Source: Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 15th Congress, 2nd Session, 1203–14, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=033/llac033.db&recNum=599. Mr. Tallmadge,…
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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…
Study a selection of essential Supreme Court cases from the 20th Century at this…
While women have historically made up an overwhelming percentage of America's religious practitioners, their roles…
Source: [Amy Eilberg], “Exploring the Link between Womanhood and the Rabbinate: Lilith Interviews the First…
Source: Marilynne Robinson, “The Tyranny of Petty Coercion,” in The Death of Adam: Essays on…
Source: Amina Wadud, “Citizenship and Faith,” in Woman and Citizenship, Marilyn Friedman, ed. (New York:…
Source: Harold H. Burton to Earl Warren, and Felix Frankfurter to Warren, May 17, 1954,…
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…
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…
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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…
Source: United States Reports. Volume 553, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term,…
Source: Sir David Frost, Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews (New York: Harper…
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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: 1 Annals of Cong. 424-450 (1789). Mr. MADISON. — I will state my reasons…
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Source: George W. Carey and James McClellan, eds., The Federalist: The Gideon Edition, (Indianapolis: Liberty…
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