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Colonial America Archiving Early America A Biography of America English Settlement (1607-1691) - Annenberg-CPB A Brief History Of Jamestown, Virginia Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism 1619-1789 Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy DRY DRUNK The Culture of Tobacco in 17th- and 18th-century Europe The Early American Review Four Faces of Pocahontas The Huguenot Historical Society (New Paltz, NY) The Jamestown Records of the Virginia Company of London A Conservator's Perspective - by Sylvia R. Albro and Holly H. Krueger Jamestown Rediscovery John Winthrop Map--Black-White Colonial America Outline Map 1776 Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map The New Netherland Museum Pictorial Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade The Plymouth Colony Archive Project and the Univ. of VA Plymouth Its History and Its People Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (LOC) Resources on the Puritans The Story of the Pilgrims The Trial of Anne Hutchinson Virtual Jamestown Wills of the Mayflower Passengers William Penn Visionary Proprietor A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Principal Navigations, Voyages of the English Nation, III - Richard First Virginia Charter Instructions for the Virginia Colony Various Laws of Jamestown Reasons for Raising a Fund to Settle America on the Value of Colonies to England - Richard Hakluyt The Starving Time - Capt. John Smith Powhatan to John Smith Second Virginia Charter Third Virginia Charter John Smith's Letter to Queen Anne Regarding Pocahontas Laws Concerning Religion - Virginia General Assembly Charter of New England Charter of the Colony of New Plymouth Granted to William Bradford and His Associates The Mayflower Compact Letters of the Early Plymouth Settlers The First Thanksgiving in Plymouth An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company in England The Sin and Danger of Self Love - sermon by Robert Cushman Mourt's Relations - a journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Necessary Supplies for the Voyage to Virginia Letter to His Parents - Richard Frethorne (indentured servant) Generall Historie by John Smith (cover) Images from John Smith's Generall Historie Account of the Purchase of Manhattan - translation of the Peter Sschaghen letter Charter of Massachusetts Bay Reasons for the Plantation in New England - John Winthrop The Salem Covenant Laws Pertaining to Slaves and Servants, Virginia The Divine Right to Occupy the Land - John Cotton The Humble Request of the Puritan Emigrants A Model of Christian Charity - John Winthrop The True Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captain John Smith in Europe, Asia, Africa and America Various documents on the Antinomian Controversy Advertisements for the Inexperienced Planters of New England - Capt. John Smith Letter from New England by Richard Saltonstall Reasons for Emigrating to New England - John Winthrop A Relation of the Successful Beginnings of the Lord Baltimore's Plantation in Maryland Letter of Lord Baltimore to his brother, Leonard Concerning Catholicism in Maryland The Glorious Work in Maryland, Father Andrew White, S.J. The forme of a binding servant - an indentured contract Passengers to Virginia The Constitution of Plymouth Colony John Cotton Condemns Democracy John Winthrop's Testimony - the Boston Governor's account of his Christian experience Account of the Pequot War Essay Against the Power of the Church To Sit in Judgement on the Civil Magistracy by John Winthrop - a treatise indicating an e The Examination of Mrs Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newton Manners and Customs of the Indians of New England - Thomas Morton Revels in New Canaan - Thomas Morton Fundamental Orders of Connecticut New England's First Fruits - the first written history regarding the founding of Harvard College The Massachusetts Body of Liberties Massachusetts Bay School Laws Harvard College Admission and Graduation Requirements The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience - Roger WIlliams George Gillespie refutes Roger Williams A Plea for Religious Liberty - Roger Williams On Liberty - John Winthrop Against Toleration - Nathaniel Ward The Simple Comler of Aggawam in America - Nathaneil Ward Maryland Toleration Act The Social Laws of Connecticut Two poems by Anne Bradstreet A declaration of the General Court of the Massachusets holden at Boston, in New-England, October 18, 1659. Concerning the exec Sumptuary Laws in New England - laws regarding what one may and may not wear British Navigation Acts - excerpts Margaret Fell's letter to the King on the persecution of the Quakers Connecticut Colony Charter Indentured Servitude in Maryland Will of Edward Garfield from Watertown, Massachusetts Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina - John Locke The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead, for Causing a Tumolt Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary - painting by Freake Limner The First Thanksgiving Proclamation Proposals for the Carrying on the Negro's Christianity - Morgan Goodwyn Petition for a Democratic Government - town of East-Hampton, Long Island Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims - William Penn Edward Randolph Condemns the Massachusetts Bay Company Before the Board of Trade Frame of Government of Pennsylvania (2-2) The Original Constitution of New York Causes of King Phillip's War - Edward Randolph Instructions to Sir Edmund Andros On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law by Samuel Pufendorf - based law and right on natural law Toleration Act of William and Mary Governor Andros' Report The Character of a Good Ruler - sermon by Samuel Willard Discourses Concerning Government, Table of Contents by Algernon Sidney - built principles of popular government from foundation Charter of Privileges Granted by William Penn, esq., to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania and Territories (10-28) Bacon's Rebellion The Black Presence -- Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable The Church of England in Early America Colonial American Newspapers Colonial Currency Colonial to 1800 -- American Literature Cross Roads and Cross Rivers Diversity in Colonial New York The Diary, Correspondence, and Papers of Robert King Carter of Virginia 1701-1732 Early American Art The First Great Awakening The First Great Awakening - essay by Sarah Valkenburgh (Concord Review) Frontier Homes (The History Channel) Georgia Before Oglethorpe How Did Slavery in America Begin HudsonRiver.com Introduction to the Free Speech Clause - the John Peter Zenger Case (Exploring Constitutional Conflicts) Jonathan Edwards King Philip's War Cultural, Gender, and Historical Implications Map--Native American Land Cessions (animated) Map--Population Growth in English Colonies to 1775 (animated) The Middle Colonies as the Birthplace of American Religious Pluralism The Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, NY The Peter Zenger Trial, 1735 Religion, Women, and the Family in Early America The Quakers The Quakers An Introduction Salem Witch Museum The Salem Witch Trial of 1692 The Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692) Sermons of John Whitefield Spiritual Leaders of the Great Awakening The Stono Rebellion William Penn, Visionary Proprietor Witchcraft in Salem Village To My Dear and Loving Husband - poem by Anne Bradstreet Lord Say and Sele - John Cotton Condemns Democracy Transcript of the Trial of Anne Hutchinson Slave Laws in Virginia Witchcraft Trial in New York Three poems by Anne Bradstreet (including To Her Loving Husband) Declaration and Remonstrance - Governor William Berkeley First Thanksgiving Proclamation (6-20) King's Letter to the Duke of York Nathaniel Bacon's Father Petitions the King Nathaniel Bacon's Manifesto Nathaniel Bacon's Oath of Fidelity Royal Description of Nathaniel Bacon The State of Virginia Various documents on Bacon's Rebellion The Author to Her Book - poem by Anne Bradstreet Revolt of the Pueblo Indians (excerpts from several documents) A Way to Get Wealth - Gervase Markham A Letter from a Gentleman of the City of New York - on Leisler's Rebellion From a gentleman of Boston to a friend in the countrey. 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N. - broadside Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions - Cotton Mather Death Warrant of Bridget Bishop The Examination and Confession of Ann Foster at Salem Village Indictment of Bridget Bishop Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692 Oral Examination of Bridget Bishop Physical Examination of Bridget Bishop Testimony Against Bridget Bishop Transcripts of the Salem Witch Trials Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits - Increase Mather Wonders of the Invisible World - Cotton Mather William Penn's Plan of Union The Story of Squanto - Cotton Mather The Selling of Joseph (a slave) - Samuel Sewall Secret Diary of William Byrd Boston News Letter (4 pages) - broadside Governor Beverley on Bacon's Rebellion Money and Trade Considered With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money - John Law Curriculum of the Boston Latin Grammar School Biennial Act By the honourable Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq; Governour of His Majesty's Colony of Connecticut in New-England, a proclamation for Some meditations concerning our honourable gentlemen and fellow-souldiers, in pursuit of those barbarous natives in the Narraga The Black Code of Louisiana Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity - Benjamin Franklin An Englishman Tastes the Sweat of an African Slave - illustration by Serge Daget Cotton Mather - engraving by Peter Pelham A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper- Currency by Ben Franklin Benjamin Franklin's Pursuit of Moral Perfection Runaway Slave Notices - South Carolina Gazette Founding Vision for Georgia - James Oglethorpe Poor Richard's Almanack - Benjamin Franklin (excerpts) Defense of Peter Zenger - Andrew Hamilton The Great Awakening in New Hampshire Description of African Slavery A Commons House of Assembly Committee Report, in a Message to the Governor's Council on the Stono Rebellion slave catchers (11- Report from William Bull regarding the Stono Rebellion (10-5) The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry - Sermon by Gilbert Tennent The Future Punishment of the Wicked - sermon by Jonathan Edwards This indenture made the ninth day of September Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and forty . by and between [blank] on th Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - sermon by Jonathan Edwards (7-8) Against Revivalism - Charles Chauncy Jonathan Edwards, from Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England Rules for Civility - George Washington On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants - Gottlieb Mittelberger The Defense of Slavery in Virginia Broadside Announcing the Sale of Slaves Letter of the Quaker woman, Increase Woodward to her son The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by the Legislature of Great Britain, briefly consider'd - Soame Jenyns America's Historic Lakes--Lake Champlain and Lake George Historical Sites Benjamin Franklin A Documentary History A Biography of America The Coming of Independence (1763-1783) - Annenberg-CPB A Biography of America Growth & Empire (1663-1763) - Annenberg-CPB The Boston Massacre Trials, 1770 Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Equiano Background, Experiences, and Travel Fighting for a Continent Newspaper Coverage of the English and French War For Control of North America, 1754-1760 The Gaspee Virtual Archives The French and Indian War's Impact on America Historic Philadelphia On the Trail of the Last of the Mohicans Rice, Indigo, and Fever in Colonial South Carolina Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia Molasses Act (5-17, 28) Transcript of the Trial of Peter Zenger Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England - Jonathan Edwards The Cry of Oppression - Sermon by Nathaniel Appleton An Evaluation of French Military Power Albany Plan of Union In Defense of a Plan for Colonial Union by Benjamin Franklin - arguments in favor of the Albany Plan of Union Join or Die - political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin in the Pennsylvania Gazette (5-9) Extract of a letter from Will's Creek (7-10) French Account of General Braddock's Defeat Poems for Soldiers - French & Indian War The Curse of Cowardice - a sermon by Samuel Davies General Townshend's Report on the Fall of Quebec Rules of Rogers' Rangers Standing Orders for Rogers' Rangers Against the Writs of Assistance - James Otis Enlistment Papers The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England - Governor Glen The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved - James Otis Royal Proclamation of 1763 Writ of Assistance (10-7) The Running of Mason and Dixon's Line Currency Act Sugar Act The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Approved - James Otis The Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress Excerpt from the Diary of John Adams (12-18) The Governor of Massachusetts Bay issues a Proclamation against Rioters Join or Die - The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by the Legislature of Great Britain - Soames Jenyns A Patriotic Advertisement Quartering Act Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress Stamp Act Declaratory Act The Repeal or the Funeral Procession of Miss America-Stamp - political cartoon by Benjamin Wilson William Pitt's Speech on the Stamp Act Townsend Act Letter 2 from John Dickinson's Letters of a Pennsylvania Letter 4 from John Dickinson's Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer The Daughters of Liberty - anonymous poem Massachusetts Circular Letter (2-11) Virginia Non-Importation Resolutions Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre The Bloody Massacre - engraving by Paul Revere The Boston Massacre - Boston Gazette and Country Journal Captain Thomas Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre The Rights of the Colonists Tea Act Tea Destroyed by Indians - son lyrics-broadside Administration of Justice Act The Boston Massacre Oration - John Hancock (3-5) Boston Port Act The Bostonians in Distress - copy of mezzotint attributed to Philip Dawe, London The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering - copy of mezzotint attributed to Philip Dawe Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress A genuine letter from a well-known patriot at St. James's to his friend in Boston, relative to the present distracted state of Letter of Abigail Adams to John Adams Massachusetts Government Act Olive Branch Petition Petition of A Grate Number of Blackes of the Province to Governor Thomas Gage and the Members of the Massachusetts General Co A Plan for the Union of Great Britain and the Colonies - Joseph Galloway A protest entered into by nine patriotic members of the House of Lords, against the address of that House to the King, present Quebec Act A Summary View of the Rights of British America - Thomas Jefferson African Slavery in America - 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American Revolution America's Wars--The American Revolution The American Revolution Archiving Early America Benjamin Franklin A Documentary History A Biography of America The Coming of Independence (1763-1783) - Annenberg-CPB Black Loyalists Causes of the American Revolution - essay by Steve Wilkins (2 pages) Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism 1619-1789 Colonial Currency Colonial to 1800 -- American Literature Cross Roads and Cross Rivers Diversity in Colonial New York Declaring Independence Drafting the Documents Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1774-1789 Drums Along the Mohawk The American Revolution on the New York Frontier Early American Art The Execution of Nathan Hale, 1776 Flags of the American Revolution George Washington (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency George Washington's Mount Vernon The Great Seal of the United States -- First Great Seal Committee (1776) Historic Philadelphia Historic Valley Forge Indians and the American Revolution - essay by Wilcomb E. 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Scott New Jersey During the Revolution The Papers of George Washington Prelude to Revolution (timeline) Religion and the American Revolution Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (LOC) Spy Letters of the American Revolution Thomas Jefferson Papers - Library of Congress Thomas Paine - biography and links Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue - extensive site on the American Revolution Virtual Marching Tours of the American Revolution Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia What was happening in the rest of the world during the American The Writing of the Declaration of Independence Free America - a Revolutionary song by Joseph Warren he Captivity of Jonathan Alder (1773-1849) and His Life with the Indians (full text) God Save the Thirteen Colonies - a Revolutionary song (anonymous author) Yankee Doodle - song lyrics (anonymous) The Rifleman's Song at Bennington - song lyrics of Vermont Patriots The King's speech to both houses of Parliament, on the 30th of November Suffolk Resolves The address of the Lords and Commons to his Majesty, on the present state of America - broadside The Battle of Bunker Hill - Major-General John Burgoyne to Lord Stanley The Battle of Bunker Hill - British song lyrics The Charlotte Town Resolves Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms - John Dickinson & Thomas Jefferson First-Hand Account of the Midnight Ride - Paul Revere The Farmer Refuted - Alexander Hamilton Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech - Patrick Henry His Majesty's most gracious speech to both houses of Parliament, on Friday, 10-27 - broadside The King's Own Regulars - traditional song lyrics from the British soldier's point of view Letter on Doubts About Independence - Abigail Adams Novanglus No. 7 - John Adams (Jan.) - using his pen name, Adams writes a response to a Loyalist New England Restraining Act (3-30) On Civil Liberty, Passive Obedience, and Nonresistance - Jonathan Boucher A Proclamation, by The King, for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition A Report on Indian Affairs - Articles of Confederation Congress (7-12) A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina - political cartoon by Philip Dawe, London Speech on Conciliation with America - Sir Edmund Burke A View of the Controversy Between Great Britain and Colonies by a Westchester Farmer, Samuel Seabury William Pitt's Speech on the Stamp Act Excerpts from the Journal of John Paul Jones Actual Page from The Boston Gazette (10-7-1776) The American Crisis, I - Thomas Paine in Common Sense American Independence - Samuel Adams (8-1) The Battle of Trenton The Capture and Execution of Capt. Nathan Hale - a letter from Hale's Sergeant, Stephen Hempstead Common Sense - Thomas Paine Concord Town Meeting Resolution The Constitution of Pennsylvania The Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson Diary of a Revolutionary Army Physician Draft Constitution for Virginia - Thomas Jefferson Fragment of an original letter on the slavery of the negroes; written in the year 1776, by Thomas Day, Esq. - broadside Halifax Resolve An intercepted original letter from General Washington to his Lady, in the year 1776 (1-24) - broadside John Adams to Abigail Adams - letter (7-3) Letter and Poem to General Washington - Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet Letter to Congress on Recruiting & Maintaining an Army - George Washington Life in the Colonial Army- Captain Georg Pausch Plain Truth - a Loyalist pamphlet by James Chalmers (Candidus) Reading of the Declaration of independence White Plains, July 11, 1776 (From a painting by George Albert Harker - Courtesy West The Recruiting Service - Captain Alexander Graydon Resolution introduced in the Continental Congress by Richard Henry Lee (Virginia) proposing a Declaration of Independence Resolution of a Concord, MA Town Meeting Rights of Women in an Independent Republic - letter of Abigail Adams to John Adams (Mar. 31, Apr. 14, May 26) Thomas Jefferson's Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence Thoughts on Government - John Adams The True Interest of America Impartially Stated - Charles Inglis Virginia Declaration of Rights - George Mason An Account of the Battle of Princeton Articles of Confederation Constitution of New York The first prayer in Congress. In Thatcher's military journal, under date of December 1777, is found a note containing the iden From the Diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge - Albigence Waldo Hessian Account of the Battle of Saratoga John McKinly Writes to his Wife Jenny Major-General Burgoyne to his nieces after the Battle of Saratoga Petition of Blacks to the Massachusetts General Court for an end to slavery Statute of Religious Freedom - Thomas Jefferson Letter of Mrs. Hannah Corbin Letters from Valley Forge Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the U. S. & France Treaty with the Delawares Treaty with France A Bill Concerning Slaves - Thomas Jefferson Draft for a Bill Establishing Religious Freedom - Thomas Jefferson The American Crisis - Thomas Paine Blacks Petition Against Taxation Without Representation (3-14) Letter from Benedict Arnold to the inhabitants of North America as reported in The London Gazette (11-11-14-1780) Letter from Benedict Arnold to Major John André (7-12) - decoded Letter from Benedict Arnold to Major John André (7-15) - decoded Letter from Benedict Arnold to George Washington pleading for mercy for his wife (9-25) The Sentiments of an AMERICAN WOMAN A Sermon on the Day of the Commencement of the Constitution - Rev. Samuel Cooper Washington's Headquarters - François Jean, Marquis de Chastellux Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown Diary of Ebenezer Denny - on the surrender of Cornwallis Excerpt from the Diary of Miss Anna Rawle Glorious intelligence! [Announcement of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis] - broadside The Norfolk Chronicle Notes on the State of Virginia - Thomas Jefferson (full text) Origin and Progress of the American Revolution - Peter Oliver The Surrender of Cornwallis Commerce between Master and Slave - Thomas Jefferson Contract Between the King & the Thirteen United States of North America Letters from an American Farmer - Preliminary Articles of Peace Between the U. S. & Britain “What Is an American J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur Address to Congress on Resigning his Commission - George Washington A Committee Reports on Import Duties - Articles of Confederation Congress Declarations for Suspension of Arms and Cessation of Hostilities Signed at Versailles Full Restitution in Congress - Articles of Confederation Congress (11-1) Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Newburgh Conspiracy and George Washington's Reply Washington's Farewell to the Troops Resolution of the Continental Congress regarding enemy property (1-14) Report on Government for the Western Territories - Thomas Jefferson Commissioners Authorized to Form Treaties with Indian Tribes - Articles of Confederation Congress Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams George III Laments the Loss of the American Colonies The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill on 17 June, 1775 - painting by John Trumbull My Kinsman, Major Molineux - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Concord Hymn - poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson Paul Revere's Ride - poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Early Republic The American Revolution (PBS) The Apotheosis of George Washington A Biography of America A New System of Government (1776-1826) - Annenberb-CPB The Birth of the Nation The First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism 1619-1789 Colonial to 1800 -- American Literature The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution Delegates to the Constitution Convention Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1774-1789 Early American Art George Washington (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency George Washington (2) - POTUS site George Washington's Mount Vernon George Washington's Papers John Adams (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency John Adams (2) - POTUS site Journals of the Continental Congress (34 volumes) Journals of Lewis and Clark Letters of Thomas Jefferson Lewis and Clark (PBS series) Madison's Treasures Map--Growth of the United States to 1853 Map--Redrawing the Nation's Boundaries 1783-1826 Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map Map--The Vote to Ratify the Constitution Martha Ballard's Diary 1785-1812 Mt. Vernon--Washington's Estate and Gardens (Official Site) An Outline of American Government (U. S. Information Agency site) The Papers of George Washington The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 Religion and the Founding of the American Nation (LOC) Report of the Research Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings The Rise and Fall of Alexander Hamilton Temple of Liberty Building the Capitol for a New Nation Thomas Jefferson (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Search Engine to peruse the documents of the Early Republic The Signers of the Constitution Thomas Jefferson Papers - Library of Congress Thomas Paine - biography and links The Unwritten Constitution Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet, to the students of the University of Cambridge in New England (Harvard) An act to preserve the freedom and independence of this State, and for other purposes therein mentioned - New York, passed Ma Reason The Only Oracle Of Man - Ethan Allen Resolutions Concerning Foreign Commerce - Articles of Confederation Congress (4-30) Disposing of Lands in the Western Territories - Articles of Confederation Congress Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson describing the cordial greeting he received from King George III as the first Americ Memorial and Remonstrance - James Madison The Barbary Treaties The Grand Committee on the Subject of the Western Territory Instructions to Superintendents of Indian Affairs - Articles of Confederation Congress (8-7) Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom The Address and reasons of dissent of the minority of the convention, of the state of Pennsylvania, to their constituents (12-1 The Boston Plan The Contrast -- A Comedy in Five Acts written by a Citizen of the United States, Royall Tyler Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy - Benjamin Franklin Disapproving and Accepting the Constitution - Benjamin Franklin Drafts of the Constitution of the United States (8-6) Elbridge Gerry's Reasons for Not Signing the Federal Constitution The Federalist Papers (in its entirety) Federalist Papers #10 - James Madison Federalist Papers #21- Hamilton on the weaknesses of the Am I Not a Man and a Brother - Quaker-created seal Letter from Henry Knox to George Washington Letter from James Madison to General Washington Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison Madison's Notes on the Debates at the Federal Convention New Jersey and Virginia Plans Northwest Ordinance Notes of Alexander Hamilton in the Federal Convention of 1787 Ordinance for Settling Accounts Between the U. S. and Individual States - U. S. Congress (5-7) Plan of Charles Pinckney (SC) Presented to the Federal Convention State House Yard Speech on the Constitution - James Wilson (10-6) Thomas Jefferson's drawing of a macaroni machine and instructions for making pasta Thoughts on Female Education - Benjamin Rush The U. S. Constitution and Amendments The Antifederalist Papers The Signing of the Declaration of Independence - painting by John Trumbull Mrs. Mary Dewees' Journal from Philadelphia to Kentucky Address to the People of the State of New York - John Jay Alexander Hamilton on the Adoption of the Constitution Answering Patrick Henry - Francis Corbin's speech given at the Virginia Convention considering the ratification of the propos Extract from an Address to the people of the state of New-York, on the subject of the federal Constitution Federal Superstructure - Federalist Papers #41 - James Madison Letter from Mrs. Anne Randolph to St. George Tucker, On Marriagee An ode for the 4th of July 1788 - [Philadelphia] Printed by M. Carey Order of Procession In Honor of the Establishment of the Constitution of the United States Patrick Henry's Speech (6-14) Ratification of the Constitution by the State of New York Slave Trade and the Middle Passage - Alexander Falconbridge Treaty with the Cherokee (11-28) An act to establish the seat of government of the United States - broadside Address of the Senate to President Washington Amendments to the U. S. Constitution that were never ratified The Bill of Rights First Twelve Articles of Amendment (6-8) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African Judiciary Act of 1789 Procession. Boston. Oct. 19, 1789. As this town is shortly to be honoured with a visit from the President of the United States Thomas Tudor Tucker to St. George Tucker, The Dangers of the New Constitution Treaty with the Six Nations Washington's First Inaugural Address Excerpts from the Journal of William Maclay Actual Page from The Massachusetts Sentinel (4-24-1790) Census Data Congress of the United States. In Senate, July the12 th, 1790. The committee appointed July the 2d, 1790, reported as follows First State Annual Message of George Washington Letter from George Washington to the Senate on Cherokee Affairs (8-11) Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport, RI - George Washington On the Equality of the Sexes - Judith Sargent Murray Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Residency Bill - Thomas Jefferson Second Annual Message of George Washington [William Maclay], For the Independent Gazetteer The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (full text) Hamilton's Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States An Introductory Lecture To a Course of Law Lectures - James Wilson From the Daily advertiser. Thoughts on coinage, and the establishment of a mint, submitted to the consideration of those state Jefferson Argues against the Constitutionality of a National Bank Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker expressing his belief that blacks possess talents equal to those of other co Third Annual Message of George Washington Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson, We are all of the Same Family Coinage Act Fourth Annual Message of George Washington Letter from Alexander Hamilton to George Washington The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine Fifth Annual Message of George Washington Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 Letter from George Hammond to Thomas Jefferson - re Jay Treaty Thomas Jefferson to William Short Letter of Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond (1) - re Jay Treaty Proclamation of Neutrality Second Inaugural Address - George Washington A Display of the United States - line engraving by Amos Doolittle Age of Reason - Thomas Paine (Part I) Jay Treaty (and ancillary documents) Letter from George Washington to his VP, John Adams Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison on the Whiskey Rebellion Sixth Annual Message of George Washington Thomas Jefferson's design for a plow The Whiskey Rebellion - Proclamation by President Washington 11th. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution Age of Reason - Thomas Paine (Part II) Farmer's Almanack Pages Greenville Treaty with Several Indian Tribes Horatius to the People of the United States Plan of the City of Washington Seventh Annual Message of George Washington Treaty of Greenville (8-3) Treaty of Tripoli Eighth Annual Message of George Washington First Annual Message of John Adams Inaugural Address of John Adams Refusing the Paris Monster - political cartoon Speech on the XYZ Affair - President John Adams 11th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution Alien Act Alien and Sedition Acts Brief account of the Society for propagating the gospel among the Indians and others in North-America - pamphlet Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor Second Annual Message of John Adams The Sedition Act - song lyrics (anonymous) Virginia Resolution Washington's Farewell Address Kentucky Resolution Law Will and Testament of George Washington A New Display of the United States - engraving by Amos Doolittle The Petition of the People of Colour, Freemen within the City, and Suburbs of Philadelphia Third Annual Message of John Adams The Beginnings of the City of Washington, DC - Abigail Adams John Adams' Letter to Abigail Adams - prayer for the new executive mansion Various Documents Pertaining the the Convention of France Message to the Senate - John Adams
Jeffersonian Republicanism Aaron Burr's Trial America's Wars--The War of 1812 American Women of the Early 19c A Biography of America A New System of Government (1776-1826) - Annenberb-CPB Casebook The War of 1812 Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism 1790-1829 Clothing of the 1830s Documents from the War of 1812 The Dolley Madison Project The Duel (The American Experience PBS series) Duel at Dawn, 1804 - Hamilton vs. Burr The Early Postal System James Madison (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency James Madison (2) - POTUS site James Monroe (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency James Monroe (2) - POTUS site Jefferson on Slavery John Bull and Uncle Sam Four Centuries of British-American Relations (From Enemy to Ally) John Quincy Adams (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency John Quincy Adams (2) - POTUS site Lewis & Clark The Journey of the Core of Discovery (PBS) The Lewis and Clark Expedition The Lewis and Clark Expedition - Documents Lewis and Clark in the Rockies Letters of Thomas Jefferson Map--Election Results for 1800 Map--Growth of the United States to 1853 Map--Louisiana Purchase Map--The Missouri Compromise Map--Redrawing the Nation's Boundaries 1783-1826 Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map Map--The War of 1812 (1) Map--The War of 1812 (2) Martha Ballard's Diary 1785-1812 Mystic Seaport & Maritime Museum - Official Site Monticello National Road - Route 40 The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals Paintings of the War of 1812 Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (LOC) The Star Spangled Banner -- The Flag that Had Inspired the National Anthem Thomas Jefferson (LOC) Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government Thomas Jefferson (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Thomas Jefferson (2) - POTUS site The War of 1812 Website Women in America 1820-1842 Young America Art Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Gabriel's Conspiracy - assorted documents State v. Boon First Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address - Thomas Jefferson Margaret Bayard Smith Meets Thomas Jefferson Jefferson's Wall of Separation Letter (1-1) Second Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson The Constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase - Thomas Jefferson to John C. Breckinridge The following resolution passed the House of representatives on Wednesday last, and the senate yesterday. [Regarding the free n Letter from President Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis Louisiana Purchase and Associated Documents Marbury v. Madison Speech Opposing the Louisiana Purchase - Senator Samuel White Third Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson 12th. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution An Act to Abolish Slavery - pamphlet Black Laws of Ohio Fourth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson Letter on Presidential Appointments (midway down the page)- Abigail Adams to Governor Claiborne The Republican. No. II - Fisher Ames Excerpt from the Journal of Lewis and Clark Fifth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson Indian speech, delivered before a gentleman missionary, from Massachusetts, by a chief, commonly called by the white people Re Lewis and Clark Reach the Pacific Ocean New England Primer Second Inaugural Address - Thomas Jefferson Treaty of Vincennes (1-21) Account of a Connecticut Camp Meeting Sixth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves A narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Johnson containing an account of her sufferings, during four years, with the Indians and Remarks on the slave-trade ... Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, No. 362 Pearl-Street - broadside Seventh Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson The Stranger in America Containing Observations Made During a Long Residence in that Country - Charles William Janson Subpoena served on Thomas Jefferson to testify at Aaron Burr's trial for treason (6-13) The constitution. Fellow-citizens of New-Hampshire. At an awful crisis, at a momentous period of our political existence we ad Dignified patriotism. Extract from the Hon. Mr. Hillhouse's speech, in the Senate of the U. States, against the passing of the Eighth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson A Thanksgiving Sermon by Absalom Jones Washington's Black Code First Inaugural Address - James Madison American Shakers broadside (early 1800s) Census Data for the Year 1810 Fletcher v. Peck Portrait of Absalom Jones - painting by The Debate over War in Congress Journal of a Voyage Up the Mississippi River - Henry Marie Brackenridge Let every Federalist do his duty, and Massachusetts will yet be saved!!! Federal republicans!, Boston (April) - broadside The American Debate Over the War of 1812 Documents for Debate on Going to War in 1812 Economic Nationalism and Sectionalism Commissioners' Report Gerrymander - an anonymous political cartoon James Madison Speech to a Joint Session of Congress Prompt patriotism. At a convention of republican delegates, consisting of one hundred and forty-two members, from fifty one tow Songs and Lyrics of the War of 1812 U. S. v. Hudson and Goodwin The War of 1812 - assorted documents of the war Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri - John C. 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Virginia Second Inaugural Address - James Monroe Thomas Jefferson's Biography (excerpts) - views on slavery Warning Against the Search for Monsters to Destroy - John Quincy Adams British Foreign Secretary George Canning's Overture for a Joint Declaration with the United States on the Spanish Colonies in A John Quincy Adams's Account of the Cabinet Meeting of 11-7 Joshua & Sally Wilson Letters to George Wilson Monroe Doctrine Monroe Letter to Jefferson Seeking Foreign Policy Advice Thomas Jefferson on the Monroe Doctrine (10-24) Gibbons v. Ogden Notices & Advertisements from the New York Evening Post First Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adam Good Jackson Times. Farmers are doing well- of course every other man must do well - broadside Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Henry Lee Death of Adams & Jefferson on the Same Day Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Roger C. Weightman The First African American Newspaper Appears - from The Election of 1828 as Seen from New York City SC's Protest Against the Tariff of 1828 - John C. Calhoun's speech The Battle of New Orleans - lyrics by Johnny Driftwood (with audio file) The American Whig Party - Hal Morris (essay)
Jacksonian Era The Alexis de Tocqueville Tour America's First Look into the Camera Daguerreotype Portraits and Views (1839-1864) The Amistad Case (NARA) The Amistad Trials 1939-1840 Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison Andrew Jackson (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Andrew Jackson (2) - POTUS site Andrew Jackson and the Bank War - Tony D'Urso (essay) A Brief History of Central Banking in the United States - Edward Flaherty (essay) Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism 1830-end The Defeat of the Second Bank of the United States--Rationale and Effects by Gareth Davis Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville (C-SPAN) de Tocqueville's America A Virtual Tour Differences Between the 1st. & 2nd. American Political Party Systems Early American Art Everyday Life in 1831 Exploring Amistad (Mystic Seaport) Fine Art & Paper Money in Jacksonian America Hanna Hoes Van Buren The Hermitage--Home of Andrew Jackson The Hudson River School (Artcyclopedia) - large links of artists & their works Hudson River School of Painting (1) Hudson River School of Painting (2) Jacksonian America Jacksonian Democracy-America's Indians - detailed lecture notes Jacksonian Miscellanies John Tyler (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency John Tyler (2) - POTUS site Julia Gardiner Tyler Letitia Christian Tyler Let's Go America! - European Travelers in the U. S. (1830-1840) Louisa Catherine Adams Map--Growth of the United States to 1853 (User Name is George Password is Washington) Map--Removal of the American Indian Map--The Trail of Tears Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map Martin Van Buren (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Martin Van Buren (2) - POTUS site Mystic Seaport & Maritime Museum - Official Site National Road - Route 40 Native American History The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals The Papers of President Andrew Jackson (Avalon Project) Rachel Donelson (Robards) Jackson Readings in Jacksonian America The Trail of Tears The Trail of Tears Website William Henry Harrison (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency William Henry Harrison (2) - POTUS site Women in America 1820-1842 Young America Art Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Various documents on the removal of the Cherokee Nation Good Jackson Times. Farmers are doing well- of course every other man must do well - broadside Jackson blasphemy. The following hymn to Jackson was sung and danced round the Hickory idols in the upper wards by the devotees Dreadful riot on Negro Hill! O read wid detention de melancholly tale and he send you yelling to your bed [Cut] Copy of an inte Murder will out !! Truth is mighty and shall prevail! Four years ago I charged General Andrew Jackson, in an address printed a Daniel Webster Anticipates Jackson's Arrival in Washington, D.C. Executive Order Regarding Military Pensions - Andrew Jackson First Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson First State of the Union Address - President Jackson Jackson Announces His Policy of Rotation in Office - speech Letter from Mrs. Barney to Gen. Jackson. Baltimore (6-13) - broadside Letter from Nicholas Biddle to Josiah Nichol (about govt. interference) Margaret Bayard Smith Describes the Inaugural Celebration The Return of Rip Van Winkle - painting by John Quidor Census Data for the Year 1830 Charles Finney Recalls his Days in Oneida County, New York Cherokee Indian Removal Debate - U.S. Senate, April 15-17, 1830 Chicksaw Treaty The Georgia Gold Rush - From the Niles' Weekly Register. XXXIX; 995 (10-9) President Jackson Reports on Indian Removal - speech to Congress Proclamation Regarding the Opening of United States Ports to British Vessels - Andrew Jackson Jackson's Veto of the Maysville Road Bill Letter from Nicholas Biddle to Samuel Smith about President Jackson's message of 1829 Liberty & Union, Now & Forever, One & Inseparable speech - Daniel Webster Indian Removal Act Memorial of the Cherokee Nation Second State of the Union Address - President Jackson Webster-Hayne Debates Cherokee Nation v. Georgia Democracy in America Letter to Nicholas Biddle from Henry Clay - advises Biddle not to seek re-charter The Perilous Condition of the Republic - The New-England Magazine - Volume 1, Issue 4, October 1831 Third State of the Union Address - President Jackson Tocqueville and Beaumont's Itinerary through Westchester County (1) Tocqueville Appreciates American Political Participation (1831-1832) Tocqueville Witnesses American Religious Enthusiasm (1831-1832) Treasury report giving praise to the National Bank Andrew Jackson's Proclamation to the People of SC on Nullification Andrew Jackson's Veto of the Bank Bill Buffalo Bull-A Grand Pawnee Warrior - painting by George Caitlin Fourth State of the Union Address - President Jackson Henry Clay's Speech on the Jackson Bank Veto Jackson and the Nullifiers - song lyrics-broadside Letter from Nicholas Biddle to Henry Clay on the effect of the Bank Veto and Biddle's faith in Henry Clay Peter Osborne Speaks to a Crowd Celebrating American Independence, (7-5) President's message. December 4, 1832. Andrew Jackson - Advertiser-Extra Louisville, Tuesday, 12-11 - broadside Proclamation Regarding Nullification (Dec. 10) - Andrew Jackson South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification Worcester v. Georgia Advice to Politicians - Davy Crockett Calhoun's Speech Against the Force Bill - Day 1 (2-15-1833) Calhoun's Speech Against the Force Bill - Day 2 (2-16-1833) Fifth State of the Union Address - President Jackson Force Bill Henry Clay on Political Power (1834, 1840) James Madison to Daniel Webster - Right to Revolution - Writings Letter from Andrew Jackson to Martin Van Buren discussing the nullification crisis (1-13) to the Senate and House Regarding South Carolina's Nullification Ordinance (Jan. 16) - Andrew Jackson Message to the Senate Regarding South Carolina's Nullification Ordinance (Jan. 22) - Andrew Jackson Second Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson Letter by Davy Crockett on Andrew Jackson Sixth State of the Union Address - President Jackson Statesmen - Their Rareness and Importance - Daniel Webster - The New-England Magazine - Volume 7, Issue 2, August 1834 The Activity of the Body Politic - from Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville Antimasonic address to the anti-masonic voters of Norfolk County and the ninth Congressional district of Massachusetts - broa The General Tendency of the Laws - from Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville Grand Row at Tammany Hall, NY - Nile's Weekly Register Nicholas Biddle - Commencement Address Seventh State of the Union Address - President Jackson Society, Manners, & Politics in America - Michel Chevalier The Sovereignty of the People - from Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville Training in the U. S. Army - James D. Elderkin The Treaty of New Echota (12-29) The Fateful Speculative Boom of 1836-1837 Cherokee Letter Protesting the Treaty of Etocha Eighth State of the Union Address - President Jackson A Political Testament - Andrew Jackson First Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren The Democratic Review An Introductory Statement of the Democratic Principle - J. L. O'Sullivan Letter by John Quincy Adams on Mounting Sectional Antagonisms Slavery A Positive Good - John C. Calhoun (2-6) Society, Manners and Politics in the United States - View of the Capitol at Washington, 1837 - painting by William H. Bartlett, engraved by Joseph C. Bently The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois - Abraham Linco Constitution of the Cherokee Nation (in Cherokee at the beginning with the English translation at mid-page) The Effects of Intemperancy - drawing Peleg Sprague Campaigns for William Henry Harrison Ad for the Harrison Log Cabin & Cider Campaign Alas, Poor Henry Clay! - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 7, Issue 26, February 1840 Census Data for the Year 1840 Horace Mann Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education Letter from James Buchanan on Party Competition and the Rise of the Whigs Letters of John and Elizabeth Hodgdon Mr. Van Buren's Title to Re-Election - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 7, Issue 28, April - May 1840 Notions of the Americans - James Fennimore Cooper Petitions of the Catholics of America Song of the 1840 Presidential Election Campaign Stop That Barrel - political cartoon on the 1840 election Tabitha Dreams of a Better Society - one of the Lowell Mill Girls The Tippecanoe & Tyler, Too Campaign Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison James Henry Hammond's Diaries - selections (1841-1842) Look before you leap! Opinion of the Attorney General of the United States concerning states' rights Christmas Carol. The visit of Saint Nicholas - written by Prof. C. C. Moore - broadside Have You Seen Sam - nativist poster from The Dollar Weekly Times Commercial Reciprocity and the American System - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 14, Issue 71, May 1844 First and Second-Rate Men - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 15, Issue 74, August 1844 The Liberty Party 1844 Convention Philadelphia Anti-Catholic Riots - Pennsylvania Freeman (7-18-1844) Review of Jackson's address to the Whigs of Rhode Island ... [Signed] Whig of the Old School - broadside Presidential Voting by States 1844-1860 The Cruise of the Dove - a whaler's song Eulogy of Andrew Jackson - Jefferson Davis (6-28) A Much-Needed Reform - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 16, Issue 82, April 1845 Political Patronage - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 17, Issue 87, September 1845 The Result of the Election - The American Whig Review - Volume 1, Issue 2, Feb 1845 The Independent Treasury - The American Whig Review - Volume 3, Issue 5, May 1846 The War with Mexico - The American Whig Review - Volume 3, Issue 6, June 1846 Whig cartoon - Funeral Obsequies of Free Trade Independent Treasury Act Poetry written by Abraham Lincoln about his early boyhood Irish Immigration to the U. S. - statistical charts (1825-1849)
Early Industrialization American Economic Growth outline Between a Rock and a Hard Place A History of American Sweatshops from 1820 to the Present (Smithsonian Institute) The Biography of America The Industrial Revolution (1776-1861) - Annenberg-CPB Boardinghouses at Lowell, MA Carey & Lea, Printer and Publisher- Seasonal Variations in its Business Cycle, 1833-1836 - Richard H. Gassan (essay) The Eli Whitney Museum A History of Chicago from Trading Post to Metropolis - Technology & Change In An Era of Great Change--Exploring Vermont 1820-1850 Labor History Timeline 1778-1991 Lowell National Historical Park Map--Growth of the United States to 1853 User Name is George and password is Washington Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map The Mill Girls The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals Samuel Slater Father of the American Industrial Revolution Slater Mill Historic Site Cotton Gin Petition - Eli Whitney Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin Sources and Effects of Unequal Wealth - Langdon Byllesby Preamble of the Mechanics Union of Free Trade Associations Slave labour employed in manufactures ... [Signed] Hamilton, Philadelphia (10-2) - broadside The Plan of the Cincinnati Labour for Labour Store - Josiah Warren The Report and Resolutions of the Committee of Fifty (NY) The Rights of Man to Property! - Thomas Skidmore View of Erie Canal - watercolor by John William Hill The Working Men's Declaration of Independence - George H. Evans Address to the Free People of Colour of these United States - Richard Allen on behalf of the colored citizens of Philadelphia Workingman's Party Platform An Address to the Working Men of New England - Seth Luther (pamphlet excerpt) Excerpt from An Address to the Working-Men of New-England Boston Transcript reports on the Strike Early Habits of Industry - The Mother's Magazine Poem-Song Lyrics of the Lowell Factory Girls (1834, 1836) Report of the National Trades' Union Convention (NY) Resolution on Land - National Trades' Union (8-29) The Canal Boat, New England Magazine - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Demand for a 10-Hour Work Day by Boston Artisans Statistics of Lowell manufactures, January 1, 1835. Compiled from authentic sources Ten-Hour Circular (Boston) An Account of a Visitor to Lowell Equal Rights Party's Declaration of Rights Loom and Spindle - Harriet Robinson The Harbinger-Female Workers at Lowell, MA Harriet Robinson, Lowell Mill Girl - recollection of the strike of 1836 Inequality of the Human Condition - WIlliam Leggett The New York Tailors' Strike - various newspaper accounts What is the Trades' Union - Pennsylvanian (2-9) I never saw a busier place than Chicago … - Harriet Martineau Immigration by Place of Origin 1840-1860 - chart Railroad Growth, 1840-1860 - chart Letters of Emeline Larcom The Lowell Offering main page of the factory newspaper Orestes A. Brownson's speech on Free Labor White slavery!! or selling white men for debt!, Lexington, KY - leaflet (4 pages) Song of the Spinners (Lowell Mill, MA) First telegraph message (5-24) A Selection from the Lowell Offering Female Industrial Association - New York Herald The Infancy of American Manufactures A Brief Chapter from Our National History - The American Whig Review - Volume 1, Issue 1 Resolutions of the Boston Carpenters' Strike A Week in the Mill - article in The Lowell Offering Letters of Mary Paul A Vermont Girl Goes to Work at the Lowell Mills A Description of Early Factory Life - Lowell, MA Recruitment of Lowell Operatives Industrial Reform - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 23, Issue 126, Dec 1848 Lowell Factory Rules An Emigrant's Narrative; or a Voice from the Steerage - William Smith Timetable of the Lowell Mills - scanned broadsheet World's Workingmen's Strike against War, four-pages of in Olive Leaves - Elihu Burritt Statistics of Lowell manufacturers. January 1857 - Compiled from authentic sources - broadside The Age of Progress - song lyrics
Gilded Age The 1880 Election - Harper's Weekly website - many political cartoons 1880 Presidential Election Statistics The 1884 Election - Harper's Weekly website - many political cartoons 1884 Presidential Election Statistics 1888 Presidential Election Statistics 1892 Presidential Election Statistics The 1893 Columbian Exposition The World's First Infomercial - essay by Kris Murray 1893 World's Columbian Exposition 1896 -- Presidential Campaign, Cartoons, & Commentary 1896 Presidential Election - many political cartoons 1896 Presidential Election Statistics Agrarian Protest in the Gilded Age - Powerpoint presentation (16 slides) The American 1890s (Bowling Green State University) American Impressionism - art works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Benjamin Harrison (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Benjamin Harrison (2) - POTUS site Cartoons of the Early 1900s The Charles Guiteau Case Chester A. Arthur (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Chester A. Arthur (2) - POTUS site Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Eras Commodifying Leisure The Business of Baseball in the Gilded Age The Crime of 1873 The Death of James Garfield, 1881 Edith Wharton Edith Wharton & The Gilded Age Writers (American Writers series - C-SPAN) Ellen Herndon Arthur Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 (Duke University) The Era of William McKinley The Fall of Third Parties in the Gilded Age Frances Folsom Cleveland Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio General Images of the Early 1899s The Gilded Age in American Art - Smithsonian American Art Museum Gilded Age Writers Grover Cleveland (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Grover Cleveland (2) - POTUS site Harper's Bazaar Magazine Hearst Castle History of the Colored Farmers Alliance. Preliminary research for writing a history of the Colored Farmers Alliance in the Pop How Did African-American Women Define Their Citizenship at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 (27 documents) How We Made the First Flight - The Wright Brothers Inventing Entertainment--The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies (LOC) The Johnstown Flood of 1889 Lizzie Borden Lucretia Rudolph Garfield Lyndhurst - A Gilded Age Mansion in Tarrytown, NY Map--American Agriculture 1900 Map--The Election of 1884 Map--The Election of 1892 Map--The Election of 1896 Mark Twain in His Times The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals Political Cartoons of the Post-Civil War Era President McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 The Presidential Election of 1896 (Vassar College) Religious Liberalism and the Modern Crisis of Faith The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 Shadowball--Recalling the Negroe Leagues Space of Desire Department Stores in the Gilded Age Stanford White Murder The Susan B. Anthony Trial, 1873 Titanic--The Official Archives Titanic Online (Virtual Titanic) Touring Turn-of-the-Century America - Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Co. (1880-1920) The Trial of Charles Julius Guiteau (President Garfield's assassin) The Trial of Susan B. Anthony (1873) Uniting Mugwumps and the Masses Puck's Role in Gilded Age Politics William McKinley (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency William McKinley (2) - POTUS site Women of the Gilded Age The Wonderful Wizard of Oz An Examination of the Underlying Political Allegory World's Columbian Exposition The Wright Stuff (The American Experience series on PBS) National party balance in presidential elections, 18681900 - chart Appeal to womanhood throughout the world - Julia Ward Howe - broadside A History of the National Woman's Rights Movement - Paulina Wright Davis Temperance --Gerrit Smith to Hon. Henry Wilson - broadside Common Sense in the Household A Manual of Practical Housewifery - Marion Harland Credit Mobilier - testimony of C. P. Huntington, 1873 The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness--Cecil B. Hartley 1873 Speech After Being Convicted Of Voting In The 1872 Presidential Election by Susan B. Anthony Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1876-1920 - chart The Evils of Fashionable Dress, by J. H. Kellogg, M.D--1876 Letter from Harriet M. Worden to John H. Noyes, Oneida Community (1-26-1876) Woman's Subjection, Editorial, Oneida Circular (3-2-1876) Reynolds vs. United States--1878--issue of religiously-motivated conduct Charles Guiteau - song lyrics about the assassin of President Garfield Behind Again - political cartoon from Harper's Weekly (7-24-1880) The Friend of the Freedman - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (10-23-1880) Gen. Grant's reasons for supporting Gen. Garfield. A sharply-drawn contrast. Speech at Warren, OH, 9-28 .... President Grant's Hancock and Lincoln - political cartoon from Harper's Weekly--11-6-1880 “Exultant Tammanyite” - political cartoon from Harper's Weekly 10-30-1880 “Positively Last Awakening of the Democratic Rip Van Winkle” - political cartoon in Puck (10-27-1880) The Return of the Prodigal - political cartoon from Harper's Weekly 9-25-1880 Victory! - political cartoon from Harper's Weekly (11-20-1880) American Nervousness, Its Causes and Consequences - George M. Beard Inaugural Address of James A. Garfield Stop that man! He shot the President! - drawing Woman suffrage. Legal opinion by W. D. Wallace, Esq., upon the power of the legislature to authorize women to vote for presiden Why I Became a 'Woman's Rights Man - Frederick Douglass The Constitutional Rights Of The Women Of The United States - an Address Before The International Council Of Women by Isabella The Duties of American Citizenship - speech by Teddy Roosevelt (1-26-1883) Is It Ignorance - Emmeline Wells in The Woman's Exponent (7-1-1883) Pendleton (Civil Service) Act The True Meaning of Republican Harmony - political cartoon by Bernhard Gilliam in Puck (3-11-1883) What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other - William Graham Sumner “‘Above Petty Personal Issues' - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly 11-1-1884 Another Voice for Cleveland - political cartoon in Judge (9-27-1884) “Beware! For He Is Very Hungry and Very Thirsty” - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (11-29-1884) Campaign of 1884, Tract No. 2 - Burdette's advice to young voters - broadside Campaign, 1884, Tract No. 5 - Reasons why workingmen should vote for Blaine & Logan. Think! Think!! Think!!! - broadside Campaign of 1884. Tract No. 8. If General Jackson was alive he would be a Republican. He was opposed to free trade, and so wou Cant, chastity, and charity in politics - the New York Nation (10-9-1884) “Cleveland the Celibate”-political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (4-18-1884) Don't be deceived by a name. What is the present Democratic party, in the campaign of 1884. Testimony of a distinguished Democr The Honest Republican Voter - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly--10-11-1884 The Knight of the Money-Bag - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly--8-30-1884 Love's Labor's Lost - political cartoon in Puck (May 7, 1884) Men May Come and Men May Go, but the Work of Reform Shall Go on Forever - political cartoon in Puck (11-8-1884) Out of a Job Once More - political cartoon in Puck (11-5-1884) The Sacred Elephant - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (3-8-1884) First Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland Imagined Uses of the Telephone - from What Science May Do For Us, Life. 5121 (4-23-1885) Applied Christianity Moral Aspects of Social Questions - Washington Gladden Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad Co. v. IL Yankee doodle. Revised for the Camp Fire by Comrade Thersites - broadside Inaugural Address of Benjamin Harrison Marriages and Divorces - chart 1890-1980 The People's Party Platform 1892 Pledge of Allegiance 1892 Petition to Congress to Repeal the Act Closing the World's Columbian Exposition on Sundays--Religious Toleration is Christian Civilization--Edison--1-4-1893 The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition- The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian L Second Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland Why I am a Protectionist - issue 49 of The Defender, published by the American Protective Tariff League - broadside Anti-Silver and Pro-Silver political cartoons - many links Cross of Gold Speech - William Jennings Bryan Democratic Party Platform of 1896 Free coinage of silver.,Speech of Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, February 13 Gold Democrats Demand New Ticket Populist Party Platform of 1896 (7-24-1896) Republican Party Platform of 1896 What's the Matter with Kansas - editorial by William Allen White in the Emporia Gazette (8-15-1896) First Inaugural Address of William McKinley How Not To Help Our Poorer Brother - Theodore Roosevelt (Jan. 1897) The Strenuous Life - speech by Teddy Roosevelt (April, 1899) The Sunny Side of Life - sermon by James Hedley Farmer Mark and the Boys Getting Ready for the Political Presidential Market of 1900 - political cartoon in The Verdict Gold Standard Act (3-14-1900) A Salutation to the Twentieth Century - Mark Twain (12-31-1900) Two political cartoons on Grover Cleveland and the 1900 Presidential Campaign - The Verdict The Wonderful World of Oz - Frank Baum (entire text) Second Inaugural Address of William McKinley The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature - William James (full text) Thaw Murders Stanford White Shoots Him on the Madison Square Garden Roof - The New York Times (11-29-1905) The Great San Francisco Earthquake -- Eyewitness Accounts The Great San Francisco Earthquake -- Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It - Louis Brandeis The Rise and Fall of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a Parable on Populism - David B. Parker in The Journal of the Georgia Asso
Antebellum South AARDOC - African American Religion A Documentary History Project Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829 Aboard the Underground Railroad Abolition (LOC) The African American Odyssey (Library of Congress) African American Mosaic--Abolitionism African American Perspectives - Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. 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Vol. II.-Pictorial history of the cause of the great rebell Washington's Black Code Washington's Black Code 1812 Request of a Free Black Person to Remain in Virginia Meeting of Free People of Color of Richmond, Virginia Denmark Vesey brought before the Court Exposition on Slavery-Richard Furman Reflections, Occasioned by the late Disturbances in Charleston (11-4) Slave Sale Broadsides Memoirs of the Life and Gospel Labours of Stephen Grellet, Quaker - observations and remarks on slavery Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour to Which is Added, A Selection of Pieces of Poetry - A. Mo Description of Levi Coffin's Underground Railroad station Freedom's Journal-1st African American Newspaper March 16 1827 excerpts Black Charge - political cartoon by Edward Williams Clay Jim Crow caricature Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World - David Walker Speech by J. Kitredge on temperance Essay on Temperance by Edward Hitchcock God Will Deliver Us From Under You (an excerpt from Appeal) - David Walker Nat Turner's Confession Nat Turner's Rebellion - assorted documents The Richmond Enquirer on Nat Turner's Rebellion 8-30-1831 An Account to Render (Excerpts from his pamphlet The Religious INstruction of the Negroes) by Rev. Charles Colcock Jones 1832 The American Colonization Society - The New-England Magazine - Volume 2, Issue 4, April Burning of a Charleston Ursuline Convent - Boston Evening Transcript 8-31-1834 Kidnapping a free Negro to be sold into slavery - woodcut - Samuel F. B. Morse Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation by Oliver Bolokitten, Esq. (pseudonym) Appeal to the Christian Women of the South - Angelina Grimké Narrative of the Late Riotous Proceedings Against the Liberty of the Press - The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, Cincinnati The Blessings of Slavery - Anonymous Editorial in the New York newspaper Plaindealer (2-25-1837) Letter by E. W. Taylor, a pro-slave New Yorker Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman - Sarah Grimke Outrage. Fellow Citizens, An abolitionist, of the most revolting character is among you, exciting the feelings of the North against the South. 2-27-1837 Broadside A Subordinate Position in Society - Catherine Beecher Moses Roper is punished for attempting to run away Slavery Is a Positive Good - John C. Calhoun Angelina Grimké Weld's speech at Pennsylvania Hall The Break-Up of a Slave Family, GA Cotton. Its Connection with Manufactures in the United States - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 2, Issue 5, April European's Views of American Democracy - No. II.. - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 2, Issue 8, July 1838 Letter by Franklin Pierce on Slavery Letter by John C. Calhoun on Slavery Letter by William Henry Harrison on The Federal Consensus on Slavery Personal Narratives - Theodore Weld's American Slavery As It Is Three Hundred Dollars Reward-Boradside issued to recover 3 runaway slaves 1839 Report on Political Antislavery - Gerrit Smith Slavery abolished by the laws of nature!!! Negroes not of the same species with white men!!! The mulatto race will soon cease Arguments of John Q. Adams Before the Supreme Court John Quincy Adams, Diary Entry (3-29) - concerning the Amistad case New Orleans Slave Auction Negroes for sale. 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Calhoun Following the Drinking Gourd - song lyrics of the Underground Railroad (1850s) Higher Law speech - William Henry Seward The Impending Crisis - excerpt by Hinton Helper Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself. With an introd. by Lucius C. Matlack The Narrative of Sojourner Truth - written by Olive Gilbert (full text) Slave-owning Population, 1850 - chart Southern Views of Emancipation and of the Slave Trade - The American Whig Review - Volume 11, Issue 28, Apr 1850 The Negro Woman's Appeal to Her White Sisters Richard Barrett, ca. 1850s Broadside Ain't I A Woman - Sojourner Truth The Fugitive Slave Law - The American Whig Review - Volume 13, Issue 77, May 1851 Uses and Abuses of Lynch Law - The American Whig Review - Volume 13, Issue 75, Mar 1851 The White Banner - George Lippard An American Slave Market - oil painting Thomas R. Dew Defends Slavery Uncle's Tom Cabin caricatures Uncle Tom's Cabin excerpt-Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (full text) Letter from a Teacher at the South - Dwight's Journal of Music (2-2) The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign - Henry Carey Slavery and the Slave Power in the United States - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 32, Issue 4, Apr 1853 Slavery is Not a Sin - Governor John H. Hammond (SC) Sojourner Truth- What Time of Night It Is Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in A Pious Slave - Frederick Law Olmstead Appeal of the Independent Democrats Do You Dance in Your Own Country - Frederick Law Olmstead The Slave Mother - poem by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Sociology for the South - George Fitzhugh (excerpts) The Christian Slave- A Drama - Harriet Beecher Stowe Excerpt from William Grayson's, The Hireling and the Slave Narratives of Escaped Slaves - Benjamin Drew The Public Hiring of Free Negroes - broadside Slave Purchases and Breeding Unruly Slave - letter by G. B. Wallace The Hireling and a Slave - poem by William J. Grayson A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States - Frederick Law Olmstead (1856, 1860) Songs of the Blacks - Dwight's Journal of Music (11-15) Autobiography of a Female Slave - Martha Griffith Browne The Blessings of Slavery - George Fitzhugh Cannibals All!--George Fitzhugh Citizenship - The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, LA The Life of Plantation Field Hands from James Sterling's Letters from the Slave States Fify Years in Chains; Or, the Life of an American Slave - Charles Ball Inventory - Estate of Edward Travis Marable (Granville County, NC) James Henry Hammond On the Admission of Kansas, Under the Lecompton Constitution (Cotton is King) - Speech before the U. S. S Our Nig Sketches from the Life of a Free Black - Harriet Wilson (full text) Cotton is King! - E. N. Elliott Distribution of Slaveholders by Size of Holdings - 1860 Expulsion of Negroes and Abolitionists from Tremont Temple - Harpers Weekly 12-3-1860 The Fight at the Polls - The Richmond Enquirer (11-1860) A Plea for Free Speech in Boston - Frederick Douglass (12-4) Ratio of Slaveholders to Families, 1850 - statistical chart Reaction to Lincoln's Election - The Charleston Mercury (11-1860) South Carolina Secession Declaration Debate (12-22-1860) South Carolina Secession Declaration Debate (12-25-1860) Southern White Population, 1860 - chart Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the pres My Escape from Slavery - Frederick Douglass The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from Her Letters and Journals by Her Son
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Webb - divorce case regarding equity (Rhode Island Supreme Court) Legal rights of the widow to the estate of her husband; Marriage and Divorce laws - James Fennimore Cooper Literary Knowledge of American Women - James Fennimore Cooper Manners of Young American Women; Their Interaction with Bachelors - James Fennimore Cooper On the Necessity of Male Chaperons - James Fennimore Cooper On the Proper Occupations of Women in America James Fennimore Cooper Christian Motherhood etching Womens' Fashions 1825-1840 - various pictures Various Documents on Robert Owen's New Harmony community The Common Schools of Massachusetts - James G. 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(1835-1841) The crime of the abolitionists ... Speech of Gerrit Smith, in the meeting of the New-York anti-slavery society - broadside First Annual Report of the Female Moral Reform Society of the City of New York Gentle Advice to Teachers - Jacob Abbot John Jay Shipherd's Pastoral Letter Slavery and the Boston riot - letter was written, shortly after the pro-slavery riot in Boston by Angeline E. Grimke to Willi What a Revival of a Religion Is - Charles Finney What Colonization Means - The Anti-Slavery Record Narrative of the Late Riotous Proceedings Against the Liberty of the Press - The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society The American Scholar - Ralph Waldo Emerson - speech given to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard University Catherine Beecher Condemns Abolitionism The Christian's Harp - Samuel Wakefield - revival song Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson First Annual Meeting of the American Moral Reform Society Outrage! - abolitionist handbill Ralph Waldo Emerson on the American Scholar Just Treatment of Licentious Men. Addressed to Christian Mothers, Wives Sisters, and Daughters - Friend of Virtue A Lecture on the Importance of Education - broadside Abolitionists of Massachusetts - circular (3 pages) Letters to Mothers (excerpts) - Mrs. L. H. Sigourney Moral Influence on the Husband - chapter 36 in From the Young Wife by William A. Alcott Speech to the Harvard Divinity School (7-15) - Ralph Waldo Emerson Thoughts on Miss S. M. Grimke's 'Duties of Woman,' E. W. Clay's Amalgamation cartoons (4) Excerpt from Essay Read at a monthly prayer meeting of an auxiliary Female Moral Reform Society Liberty Party Platform Reverend M'Ilvaine Denounces Intemperance Daniel O'Connell to Lucretia Mott, With Reference to the Rejection of Female Delegates by the World's Convention in London (6 Lucretia Mott's Diary of Her Visit to Great Britain to Attend the World's Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 Hints to Young Ladies on an Important Subject, Advocate of Moral Reform 8-1-1840 Social Destiny of Man - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 8, Issue 35, November - December 1840 The True Heart of Woman - song lyrics by Mrs. WIlson A Letter from Brook Farm - Nathaniel Hawthorne A Second Declaration of Independence… - J. W. Goodrich Arguments of John Q. Adams Before the Supreme Court My Mother's Bible - song lyrics by Henry Russell; the poetry by George P. Morris, Esq. Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson The Supreme Court Decision on the Amistad Case A Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School--Catherine E. Beecher 1841 What is it, to 'Cease from Man' Editorial, Advocate of Moral Reform 10-1-1841 American Notes--Charles Dickens (Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind; Meeting Laura Bridgeman) Lecture on Transcendentalism - Ralph Waldo Emerson Miller's Camp Meeting at Salem, MA - The Herald (10-22) The Peace Movement - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 10, Issue 44, February 1842 Prigg v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 539 (1842) Temperance Address - Abraham Lincoln (Springfield Washington Temperance Society Anti-Slavery and the Second Advent - article by Luther Boutelle in The Liberator (5-5) Back cover with Illustration for The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1843 Dorothea Dix Speaks Out On Behalf of Insane Persons The End of the World - James Kirke Paulding in Graham's Magazine (March) Massachusetts to Virginia - poem by John Greenlief Whittier A newspaper article from The Phalanx on Utopian Socialism Report of the National Reform Union Temperance pledge filled in by Neil James Sweeney, 28 of March - broadside The Abolitionists - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 16, Issue 79, January 1845 Anti-Rent State Convention in Berne, NY (1-15) John Humphrey Noyes and Bible Communism Mr. Emerson and Transcendentalism - The American Whig Review - Volume 1, Issue 3, Mar 1845 Narrative and Life of Frederick Douglass excerpts That dark side of domestic life.. - letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to her Husband, Calvin Stowe Christian Non-Resistance - Adin Balou The political and military reformer. Devoted to the support of truly Republican principles -- of a well disciplined militia -- Political Corruption - The American Whig Review - Volume 3, Issue 5, May 1846 Tenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education--Horace Mann 1846 Average Monthly Salaries, Including Board, of Teachers in 1847 Letters on the Masonic Institution--John Quincy Adams Report on Abolition - National Convention of Colored People The Anti-Slavery Harp A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings, compiled by William W. Brown, a fugitive Slave (Boston, Bela Marsh, 1848) Brown's Anti-Slavery Harp - a compendium of abolitionist song lyrics (48 songs) The Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls Convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton Answers Newspaper Critics - National Reformer (9-14) The North Star on Seneca Falls 1848 Poverty and Misery, Versus Reform and Progress - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 23, Issue 121, July 1848 Report from the Massachusetts Board of Education - Horace Mann Rev. Sir-- The American Colonization Society to which this is, auxiliary, has sent out the following companies of emigrants, The Resolutions at Rochester The Widow and Her Son - from Water-Drops by Lydia Howard Sigourney The Decision to Publish The Scarlet Letter Frederick Douglass on Colonization North Star (1-26) On the Duty of Civil Disobedience--Nenry David Thoreau Abolition vs. Christianity and the Union - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 27, Issue 145, July 1850 An Appeal to the Ladies of America - Rev. A. L. Stone in The National Temperance Offering Argument on Woman's Rights, by H.H. Van Amringe, as reprinted in the Proceedings of the 1850 Convention On Controversial War--Ramon Alcaraz et al., eds. The Other Side Or Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the United States (New York The Drunkard's Home - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell in The National Temperance Offering Godey's Lady Book Online Grand Demonstration of Petticoatdom at Worcester--The 'Woman's Rights' Convention in Full blast--Important and Interesting Rep The Lady at Home, or, Leaves from the Every-Day Book of an American Woman - T. S. Arthur Letter from Caroline Wells (Healey) Dall to Paulina Wright Davis in The Liberator (11-8) on prostitution Materials Related to the 1850 Women's Rights Convention (many different documents) Only a Year - poem by Harriet Beecher Stowe The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Worcester (10-23&24-1850) The Temperance Home - Mrs. E. Jessup Eames in The National Temperance Offering The Vacant Chair - poem by Richard Coe, Jr. in Godey's Lady's Book (Jan.) Woman's Mission, by Ebenezer Elliot. The North Star (10-3) Women's Rights Convention - as reported in The New York Herald, Saturday (10-26) Woman's Rights Convention and People of Color, The North Star (12-5) - Parker Pillsbury Ain't I A Woman - Sojourner Truth Dancing as a Means of Physical Education - Mrs. Alfred Webster George W. Putnam, A Poem, for the Woman's Rights Convention, Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio Letter from Elizabeth Blackwell to Baroness Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron concerning women's rights and the education of women p Temperance - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 29, Issue 158, August 1851 The True Remedy for the Wrongs of Woman; with a History of an Enterprise Having That for its Object--Catherine E. Beecher (written as letters to her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe) Exposure of the American Colonization Society - William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Independence Day Speech Report of the Massachusetts Committee on the Qualifications of Voters Uncle's Tom Cabin-caricatures excerpt - Harriet Beecher Stowe American Book Reviews of Uncle Tom's Cabin A Sermon Of the public function of woman, preached at the Music Hall (3-27-1853) by Theodore Parker William Lloyd Garrison at the Woman's Rights Convention (9-6) Economy (Chapter 1) of Walden - Henry David Thoreau What is Home Without a Mother - song lyrics by Alice Hawthorne Slavery in Massachusetts - speech by Henry David Thoreau Preface to Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman Mother, Home and Heav'n - song lyrics by Frank Drayton Niagara Falls - painting by Frederic Edwin Church We Must Educate! - page from The McGuffey Reader Consistent democracy. The elective franchise for women. Twenty-five testimonies of prominent men A Woman's Thoughts About Women (Dinah Marie Mulock Craik) Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet, Atlantic Monthly (Feb.) - Thomas Wentworth Higginson Slave letter written by an unidentified slave Conversion to Christ from Memoirs of Reverend Charles G. Finney Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the pres
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Stephens (2-2) Letter on the Free Soil Party - Gerrit Smith The Liberty Party - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 23, Issue 122, Aug 1848 Millard Fillmore - The American Whig Review - Volume 8, Issue 4, Oct 1848 New York Barnburners & the Free Soil Party Convention A History of Parties - The American Whig Review - Volume 10, Issue 22, Oct 1849 Inaugural Address of Zachary Taylor Judge Jay's letter - Free soil Whigs and Liberty party men, read this! - broadside Origin of the Two Parties Contrast of their Doctrines - The American Whig Review--Volume 9, Issue 13, Jan. 1849 Popular Sovereignty and States Rights - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 25, Issue 133, July 1849 Remarks on the Resolutions and Manifesto of the Southern Caucus - The American Whig Review - Volume 9, Issue 15, Mar 1849 The Southern Address - John C. 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Triumph of the Resurrectionists - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 30, Issue 168, June 1852 Know-Nothing Oath (mid-page) Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (full text) The Whig Convention The Candidate and the Campaign - The American Whig Review - Volume 16, Issue 92, Aug 1852 Black Potential and the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin Inaugural Address of Franklin Pierce Appeal of the Independent Democrats The Crime Against Kansas - Charles Sumner speech DeBow's Review on the destiny of the slave states (Sept.) 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What's Left of Them - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 34, Issue 6, December 1854 William Lloyd Garrison Admits of No Compromise The Federal Union - Shall it be Preserved - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 36, Issue 4, October 1855 Inaugural Address of Major Levi Boone of Chicago Letter of Abraham Lincoln on Nativism Letter of John Brown on Bleeding Kansas Letters of Thomas C. Wells - Kansas pioneer about Border Ruffians (1855-1866) Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act National platform of the Know somethings - Adopted at Cleveland, OH - broadside The Presidential Negative - Vetos of President Pierce - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 36, Issue 5, November 18 Scenes in the Kansas Election - From The Liberator (7-27-1855) Julia Louisa Lovejoy, Selected Letters from Kansas 1856 Campaign - political cartoon The Canning of Charles Sumner - editorials from over 20 newspapers Crimes Against Kansas speech - Charles Sumner Democratic Platform, 1856 caricature-political cartoon Francis Henderson describes living conditions under slavery Free State Battery - photo Kansas - the Reign of Terror - The New York Tribune A Letter From Edward Bridgman (5-25) about the situation in Kansas Letter from California vigilante committee to John Stephens (9-5-1856) Letter from Salmon P. Chase on slave power Letter on the revival of the slavery issue - Gideon Welles On the Sumner Assault by Preston S. Brooks Republican Campaign Songster - songs for the 1856 campaign Republican Party Platform of 1856 The Reign of Terror - From The New York Tribune (6-12) The Ruffians in the Senate Six Months in Kansas--Hannah Anderson Ropes 1856 Southern Chivalry - lithograph by John L. Magee A Southern Response to the Caning of Sumner Sumner and Brooks - Journal American (5-24-1856) The Union - The Dangers Which Beset It. Number One - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 37, Issue 1, January 1856 The Union - The Democratic Party - The Administration - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 37, Issue 6, June 1856 White slavery. The new Democratic doctrine. ... Slavery not to be confined to the negro race, but to be made the universal co The American Mind and the Traits of Webster, Clay and Calhoun by Edwin P. 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Parry et al. describing the Southern fires eaters in Congress Logical Results of Republicanism - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 43, Issue 2, October 1859 Political and industrial reform - broadside Responses to John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry (Ohio Enquirer October 19; Chicago, Illinois Press and Tribune October 20 Various Documents on the Trial & Execution of John Brown John Brown's Body Lies A-Moldin' in the Grave - song lyrics Aboriginal America - Jacob Abbot Alabama's Letter to the State of North Carolina Alexander Stevens' Reply to President-Elect Lincoln The Bible Argument (on slavery) - Thornton Stringfellow Census Data for the Year 1860 Constitutional Union Party Platform - Bell, Everett The Crittendon Compromise Democratic Platform - Stephen A. 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John Letcher's Conditions for Settlement Virginia Leaves the Union War Begins! - NY and SC newspaper accounts of the outbreak of war The Washington Peace Conference (2-27-1861) Who endorsed the Helper book! Who were the inciters to bloodshed 'The unconditional abolition of slavery', 'Peaceably, if we From the Diary of a Young Northern Woman An Act to Make Disposition of Negro Slaves Captured from Hostile Indians - Congress of the Confederate States of America (2-17-1862) American Civilization - Ralph Waldo Emerson in The Atlantic Monthly (April 1862) An Anonymous Poet Satirizes Exempts Battle of Shiloh described in a letter by Edgar Pierce The Causes of the Rebellion - Continental Monthly - Volume 2, Issue 5, November 1862 Chiefly About War Matters - Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Atlantic Monthly 'The Constitution as It Is - The Union as It Was'. - Continental Monthly - Volume 2, Issue 4, October 1862] Education among the freedmen ... To the friends of education among the freedmen - broadside Emancipation in the District of Columbia The Emancipation Problem in Maryland - circular (6-17-1862) The Emancipation Proclamation - Abraham Lincoln An Exhortation Delivered by Eliza P. Gurney (a Quaker) to Abraham Lincoln at the White House The Flag of Secession - song lyrics of a Confederate tune - author unkown The Freed Men of the South - Continental Monthly - Volume 2, Issue 6, December 1862] From the Diary of a Young Southern Woman General Orders, No. 28, New Orleans - issued by General Pierce G. T. Beauregard Homestead Act John Wilkes Booth - photo by Charles DeForest Fredericks Letter by Mansfield Lovell commenting on the Emancipation Proclamation Letter from Mary Todd Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln advising her husband to remove the hesitant Gen. George B. 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A New and Original Plan for Saving the Union on Southern Principles. - Continental Monthly - Vol Comparative Troop Strength, North and South - chart 1862-1865 Additional Article to the Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade (2-17-1863) Avoid the draft! ... All men who desire to join any particular regiment of cavalry now in the field, are hereby authorized to present themselves...James B. Fry 1863 Beecher Blasphemy and Negro Patriotism - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 2, Feb 1863 The Bible against slavery, with replies to the Bible view of slavery, by John H. Hopkins, D. D., bishop of the diocese of Ver The Black Regiment - song lyrics published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments Boston Hymn - poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1-1-1863) A challenge! The rebellion of the southern traitors against the Union and the government, is a rebellion against the democratic rights of the people NY 8-25-1863 A Confederate Assessment of the War - letter by Christian M. Epperly A Confederate Assessment of the War - letter by Daniel H. Hill The Confederation and the Nation - Continental Monthly - Volume 3, Issue 6, June 1863 The Consequences of the Rebellion - Continental Monthly - Volume 3, Issue 1 January 1863 The Cost of War and Who Must Pay It - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 1, Jan 1863 Dan'l O'Connell ---on--- democracy! ... Irishmen and workingmen! Give your votes in behalf of freedom and not in behalf of slav The Delusion of the Abolitionists - A Letter to Rev. Henry Ward Beecher - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 6, June 1863 Democratic Catechism of Negro Equality - broadside Emancipation Hymn - song and lyrics by Manuel Fenollosa Emancipation Proclamation--image of the original text The Fate of Black Troops in Confederate Prisons - from the Franklin Repository, Chambersburg, PA 12-30-1863 The Freedom of the Press - Continental monthly - Volume 4, Issue 4, October 1863 General Orders Number 73 - General Robert E. 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Chase New York City Draft Riots - Martha Derby Perry, Eyewitness Recollections (July-1863) Nullification and Secession - Continental Monthly - Volume 3, Issue 2, February 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction Proposition to the president to employ the emancipated negroes at Port Royal ... Springfield, VT - broadside Reconstruction - Continental monthly - Volume 4, Issue 6, December 1863 Recruitment of African-American soldiers - letter by Benjamin F. Butler Relations between Indians and missionaries - letter by George Bonga Remarks on Bishop Hopkins' letter on the Bible view of slavery Review of Bishop Hopkins' Bible view of slavery, by a presbyter of the church in Philadelphia The Right and the Wrong of Secession - The Old Guard - Volume 1, Issue 3, Mar 1863 Confederate General John B. Gordon's memoirs - Chapter 11 (Gettysburg) The Riots in New York City - pictures in Harper's Weekly (8-1-1863) Robert E. 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It is of the greatest importance to the workingmen of the United States to understand the true sentiments and ob Illustrations of the United States Colored Troops - Harper's Weekly Abe Lincoln's Battle Cry - song lyrics by James D. Gay American Women - Continental Monthly - Volume 6, Issue 4, October 1864 Automaton Negro Dancer - advertisement Banking and the currency. Letter from James Gallatin, Esq., to the bank committee, New York (4-7-1864) - broadside The Breakdown of the Plantation System - letter by Tobias Gibson The Capture of Fort Pillow - from the Franklin Repository, Chambersbug, PA The Colonization of Blacks in Africa - letter by Abraham Lincoln Comments on the 1864 Election - letter by Andrew Knox, a Union Lieutenant Confederate Attitudes - letter by John McKinley Gibson The Constitutional Amendment - Continental Monthly - Volume 6, Issue 3, September 1864 Copperhead Democrats. A political cartoon lampooning their subservience to the Confederacy Cotton vs. currency. Ought the cotton trade to be opened - broadside Criticizing the Union Army Occupation - letter by Tobias Gibson The Conscription Act of March 3d, 1864 - Continental Monthly - Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1864 Democratic Party Platform James Fennimore Cooper on Secession and State Rights - Continental Monthly - Volume 6, Issue 1, July 1864 Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Charles Sumner outlining the president's belief that the dependents of black and white soldiers should be treated equally 5-19-1864 Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby concerning the loss of her sons in the Civil War (11-21) - a much debated letter as t Letter from General Meade to L. Montgomery Bond (4-8-1864) Letter to the Editor of the Anglo-African - Rev. 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Ward 8, Boston - broadside Report of the Board of Education for Freedmen Slavery and the next President - broadside Special Field Orders, No. 120 - General William T. Sherman 1864 Startling revelations from the Department of South Carolina, and expose of the so called National Freedmen's Relief Associatio A Stillborn Plan for Confederate Emancipation - letter to Joseph E. Johnston from Patrick R. Cleburne To all Marylanders in the Confederate States - George P. Kane - circular The two roads to peace! How shall we end the rebellion - shall we coax it, or crush it ... The Chicago platform .... The Balti Ulysses S. Grant at Cold Harbor, VA - photo by Mathew Brady Ulysses S. Grant's commission as lieutenant general signed by Abraham Lincoln (3-10-1864) Union Not to be Maintained by Force - Continental Monthly - Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1864 U. S. Sanitary Commission Sketch of Its Purpose Wade-Davis Manifesto (8-4-1864) The War a Contest for Ideas - Continental Monthly - Volume 5, Issue 5, May 1864 What Jeff Davis thinks of the war. Published by the National Union executive committee General William Tecumseh Sherman - photo by Mathew Brady Joseph Trimble's Oath of Amnesty 'Abolition of Slavery' Forever Impossible - The Old Guard - Volume 3, Issue 4, Apr 1865 A Letter to Jefferson Davis - Raleigh, NC (1-29-1865) Address from the Colored Citizens of Norfolk, Virginia, to the People of the United States The Assassination of President Lincoln - letter by J. B. Stonehouse The Assassination of President Lincoln - letter by W. Henry Pearce A Bill to Provide for Raising Two Hundred Thousand Negro Troops [Senate Bill 190] - Confederate States of America (2-10-1865) Black republican and office-holders journal. No. 5. for the elevation of negroes, gorillas, and ourang-outangs - leaflet Casuality Reports of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment The Conquered Banner - song lyrics by Abram J. Ryan Contract for indenture of Susan, a girl of five years (8-19-1865) - anonymous Farewell to the Army of Southern Virginia - speech by General Robert E. Lee Freedman's Bureau Act of 1865 General Orders 9 - Robert E. Lee General Robert E. Lee - photo by Mathew Brady Grant's Surrender Terms At Appomatox The Governing Passion of My Soul - speech given by William Lloyd Garrison at Charleston, South Carolina, only a month after Sherman's March 4-14-1865 Good 'Ole Rebel! - song (sound file) with lyrics The Human Cost of War - chart Jeffie Davis the Belle of Richmond - New York, The American News Company - broadside Lancaster (Pa.) 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Why Not Sell the Air - Tecumseh Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, Speeches Building of the Erie Canal The Morality of Manufactures - Nile's Weekly Register Various documents on the removal of the Cherokee Nation Gottfried Duden - Letters - Frontier and Wilderness Life (1824-1825) Peter Skene Ogden's Journal of His Journey into Utah Diet and Health of Frontier Women - Gottfried Dudden The Last of the Mohicans, Volume 1 Elias Boudimott Proposes a Cherokee Newspaper View Near the Village of Catskill - painting by Thomas Cole Treaty With the Potawatami Niagara Falls - painting by Thomas Cole Preemption & Homestead Acts (1830, 1841) Cherokee Nation v. Georgia Autobiography of John Ball - Across the Plains to Oregon Nathaniel Wyeth's Journals of His Expeditions into the OR Country (1832-1834) Worcester v. Georgia Life of Black Hawk Letter by Davy Crockett on Andrew Jackson and Crockett's moving to Texas Declaration of the People of Texas (11-7) Nature's Wonderland - painting by Thomas Doughty Views on the Commercialization of the Countryside Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee Nation Stephen Austin - address delivered at Louisville Texas Declaration of Independence Treaty of Velasco - between the U. S. and Mexico William Travis' Letter From the Commandancy of the Alamo Steps of Expansion--José María Tomel y Mendívil, Relations Between Texas, The United States of America and the Mexican Republic, (Mexico) Manifest Destiny - John L. O'Sullivan Poster circulated in Philadelphia to discourage the coming of the railroad An American View of Mexican California - Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Fenimore Cooper's Libels on America and Americans - anonymous The Deerslayer; or, The First Warpath . . . Volume 1 - James Fenimore Cooper Quotations from (and About) Horace Greeley (1840s-1870s) Webster-Ashburton Treaty Liberty in Theory and in Practice - anonymous Across the Plains in 1844 - from the journals of Catherine Sager Pringle Martyrdom of Joseph & Hiram Smith in Carthage Jail - lithograph Mr. Van Buren - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 15, Issue 73, July 1844 The Re-Annexation of Texas, in its Influence on the Duration of Slavery - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 15, Is American Enterprise in Steam Navigation - The American Whig Review - Volume 2, Issue 1, July 1845 Congressional Resolution for Texas Annexation Daily Wage Rates on the Erie Canal, 1845-1870 - statistical chart The Great Nation of Futurity - John L. O'Sullivan Inaugural Address of James K. Polk Monopoly of Land is the Great Evil - Lewis Masquerrier in Young America (7-19) Mr. Clay - The Texas Question - The American Whig Review - Volume 1, Issue 1, Jan 1845 The Oregon Question - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 16, Issue 84, June 1845 The Tariff Question - The American Whig Review - Volume 2, Issue 2, August 1845 Territorial Aggrandizement - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 17, Issue 88, October 1845 Treaty for the Annexation of Texas (March 1, 1845) The Whig Party, Its Position, and Duties - The American Whig Review - Volume 2, Issue 6, December 1845 Will There Be War with Mexico - The American Whig Review - Volume 2, Issue 3, September 1845 Administration of Indian Affairs - The United States Democratic Review - Volume 18, Issue 95, May Boatmen on the Missouri - painting by George Caleb The Mexican War & Slavery - political cartoons (1846-1848) The Oregon Question War and Peace - The American Whig Review - Volume 3, Issue 2, February 1846 The Oregon Treaty The Oregon Treaty - The American Whig Review - Volume 4, Issue 2, Aug 1846 President Polk's War Message Table of the new rates of toll on the Erie canal, as established by the canal board, and in effect on said canal - broadside Wilmot Proviso Against the Mexican War - Thomas Corwin David Wilmot Argues for a Free California The Donner Party's Log Entries (Jan., 1847) Elizabeth Dixon Smith Geer, pioneer journal (1847-1850) Manifest Destiny assorted quotations (1847-1848)