Themes & Threads: Science, Technology, and Industry
Gender and Equality
"The influence of woman is not limited to the domestic circle. Society is her empire."…
Populists and Progressives
After the Civil War, the challenges presented by a developing industrial economy helped to encourage…
Gibbons v. Ogden
Source: 22 U.S. 1; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/22/1 Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court, joined…
The Prize Cases
Source: 67 U.S. 635; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/67/635 Justice GRIER delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by…
The Slaughterhouse Cases
Source: 83 U.S. 36; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/83/36. Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court, joined by…
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
Source: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/301/58/ Chief Justice HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justices BRANDEIS,…
Chapter 24: Containment and the Truman Doctrine
A. George F. Kennan to the Secretary of State (The Long Telegram), February 22, 1946…
Chapter 19: The Progressive Era: Eugenics
A. Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, Veto of Eugenics Law, March 30, 1905 https://document-readings.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents+and+Debates/Volume+2/Chapter+19/ch19+Pennypacker+Veto+of+Eugenics+Law+1905.mp3 Commonwealth of…
Chapter 10: The Market Revolution and (The Myth of?) Free Labor
A. Orestes Bronson, The Laboring Classes, 1840 https://document-readings.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents+and+Debates/Volume+1/ch10/ch10+Orestes+Bronson+The+Laboring+Classes+1840.mp3 It may be laid down as a…
In the Event of a Moon Disaster: “The Safire Memo”
To: H. R. Haldeman From: Bill Safire July 18, 1969. IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER: Fate has…
The People’s God: Its Effect on Health and Christianity
Source: Mary Baker Eddy, “The People’s God: Its Effect on Health and Christianity,” The Christian…
Stimulants and Narcotics
Source: Ellen G. White, The Ministry of Healing, (Washington, D. C: Review and Herald Publishing…
Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort
Source: John F. Kennedy, Address at Rice University, Houston, Texas, 12 September 1962, NARA, JFKPOF-040-001. We meet at…
D-Day Dress, Platoon Leader
Source: illustration 20a from the 29th Infantry Combat Narrative by Lieutenant Jack Shea. DOD via…
Organized Evacuation of Civilian Populations in Civil Defense
Source: Papers of Harry S. Truman, President’s Secretary’s Files, National Security Files, box 217, folder…
Speech on the Fair Labor Standards Act
Source: Congressional Record, 75th Cong., 3rd sess., vol. 83, pt. 6 (May 16, 1938), pp.…
Message to Congress on Establishing Minimum Wages and Maximum Hours
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Message to Congress on Establishing Minimum Wages and Maximum Hours.” Online…
“Detroit Digs In”
Source: The Nation 144:3 (January 16, 1937), pp. 64-66. Available online from The Social Welfare…
Speech on the National Labor Relations Act
Source: Congressional Record, 74th Cong., 1st sess., Vol. 79, pt. 8 (February 21, 1935), pp.…
“The Right to Strike”
Source: The Nation, 137: 3566 (November 8, 1933) p. 530 - 531. Nearly a million…
Call for Legislation to Create the Tennessee Valley Authority
Source: “Message to Congress Suggesting the Tennessee Valley Authority,” April 10, 1933. Online by Gerhard…
Letter from Bonus Army leader to President Hoover
Source: Letter to President Hoover from Philo D. Burke, Liaison Officer, B. E. F.; July…
Special Message to the Congress on the Economic Recovery Program
Source: Herbert Hoover, “Special Message to the Congress on the Economic Recovery Program,” January 4,…
Speech on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Source: Representative Milligan, speaking on Smoot-Hawley Tariff, on July 3, 1930, 71st Cong., 2d sess.,…
Statement on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill
Source: Herbert Hoover, “Statement on the Tariff Bill,” June 16, 1930. Online by Gerhard Peters…
Statement announcing a Series of Conferences with Representatives of Business, Industry, Agriculture, and Labor
Source: Herbert Hoover, “Statement Announcing a Series of Conferences With Representatives of Business, Industry, Agriculture,…
The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Source: Chapter IV: “Signposts,” United States Strategic Bombing Survey (Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C., 1946),…
Press Release Alerting the Nation About the Atomic Bomb
Source: Press Release by the White House, August 6, 1945 (Ayers Papers, U. S. Army…
Potsdam Declaration
Source: Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender, Issued, at Potsdam, July 26, 1945 (Birth of…
Executive Order No. 9346: Establishing a Committee on Fair Employment Practice
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Executive Order 9346 Establishing a Committee on Fair Employment Practice,” May…
The First Lady Visits Tuskegee
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day: A Comprehensive, Electronic Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s “My Day” Columns.…
Eleanor Roosevelt with “Chief” Charles Alfred Johnson
Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day: A Comprehensive, Electronic Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s “My Day” Columns. Online…
The Kitchen Debate
Library of Congress Digital Collection, https://goo.gl/H5xk3x. This text is taken from The Cold War: Core…
Recommendations on the Immediate Use of Nuclear Weapons
Michael B. Stoff et al., eds., The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic…
Letter to Secretary of War Henry Stimson
https://goo.gl/zyQJro From: J R Oppenheimer To: Henry Stimson, Secretary of War Date: August 17, 1945…
Press Release Alerting the Nation About the Atomic Bomb
Press release by the White House, August 6, 1945 (Ayers Papers, U.S. Army Press releases,…
Minutes of Meetings held at the White House on Monday, June 18, 1945
“The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb Research File,” Truman Presidential Library. https://goo.gl/goPYGA DETAILS OF…
Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender (Potsdam Proclamation)
Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, The Conference of Berlin (Potsdam Conference), 1945,…
Buck v. Bell
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927). Available online at Justia. https://goo.gl/mn3RFr Mr. JUSTICE HOLMES…
Judgment on Eugenics Law
Laughlin, Eugenical Sterilization in the United States, 269. Judgment: SUPREME COURT OF INDIANA. November Term,…
“Better Baby Contest,” Indiana State Fair
Better Baby contest at the Indiana State Fair, 1931. Indiana State Archives. “Better Baby” contests…
Veto of Pennsylvania Eugenics Law
Harry Hamilton Laughlin, Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (Chicago: Psychopathic Laboratory of the Municipal…
New York Times: “Pastors for Eugenics”
“Pastors for Eugenics,” New York Times, June 6, 1913, 10. Drs. Keigwin and Hillis Invite…
Eugenics as a New Creed
Stanley Hall, “Eugenics: Its Ideals and What It Is Going to Do,” Religious Education 6,…
Documents and Debates in American History and Government: Vol. 2, 1865-2009
This collection of documents presents American history from 1865 to 2009 as a series of…
The Laboring Classes
Orestes Bronson, The Laboring Classes: An Article from the Boston Quarterly Review, (Boston: Benjamin H.…
Massachusetts Lawmakers Investigate Working Conditions in Lowell
Massachusetts House Document no. 50, March, l845, reprinted in John Commons, ed., A Documentary History…
“Song of the Spinners” from the Lowell Offering
Lowell Offering, April 1841 (Lowell, Mass.: Printed by A. Watson), p. 32. Courtesy American Antiquarian…
Notes on the State of Virginia: Queries 18 & 19
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia ([1781-82]; London: John Stockdale, 1787), 270-75. Query…
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