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• "Get the Rope!" Anti-German Violence in World War I-era Wisconsin
• "Nobody Would Eat Kraut": Lola Gamble Clyde on Anti-German Sentiment in Idaho During World War I
• "We Had to Be So Careful"A German Farmer's Recollections of Anti-German Sentiment in World War I
• Remembering Jim Crow
• "We Do Not Understand the Foreigners": John J. Martin Testifies on the 1919 Steel Strike
• "The Men Seem To Be Pretty Well Satisfied": John Anderson on the 1919 Steel Strike
• "They Are Mostly All Foreigners on Strike": Joseph Fish Speaks on the 1919 Steel Strike
• "It Is Entirely the Bolshevik Spirit": Mill superintendent W. M. Mink Explains the 1919 Steel Strike
• "Forty-Two Cents an Hour" for Twelve to Fourteen Hours a Day: George Milkulvich Describes Work in the Clairton Mills after World War I
• "We Did Not Have Enough Money": George Miller's Testimony about the 1919 Steel Strike
• "We Ought to Have the Right to Belong to the Union": Frank Smith Speaks on the 1919 Steel Strike
• "Eight Hours a Day and Better Conditions": Andrew Pido Explains His Support for the 1919 Steel Strike
• "Please, Let Me Put Him in a Macaroni Box" The Spanish Influenza of 1918 in Philadelphia
• "He'll Come Home in a Box": The Spanish Influenza of 1918 Comes to Montana
• "I Glanced Up--The Statue of Liberty!": Emma Goldman Describes Her Deportation in the Era of the Red Scare
• "Sadie's Servant Room Blues": 1920s Domestic Work in Song
• Kissing Rudy Valentino: A High-School Student Describes Movie Going in the 1920s
• From Cowboys to Clara Bow: A College Student's Motion Picture Autobiography
• Movie Dreams and Movie Injustices: A Black High-School Student Tells What 1920s Movies Meant to Him
• Frustration versus Fantasy: How the Movies Made Some People Restless
• The Bum as Con Artist: An Undercover Account of the Great Depression
• "We Have Got a Good Friend in John Collier": A Taos Pueblo Tries to Sell the Indian New Deal
• A Mule Spinner Tells the U.S. Senate about Late 19th century Unemployment
• A Georgia Sharecropper's Story of Forced Labor ca. 1900
• "Speak, Garvey, Speak!"A Follower Recalls a Garvey Rally
• Lending a Hand: A Woman Remembers Hoboes of the 1930s
• "I'm Going to Fight Like Hell"Anna Taffler and the Unemployed Councils of the 1930s
• "Organize among Yourselves": Mary Gale on Unemployed Organizing in the Great Depression
• "It Had a Lot of Advantages"Alfred DuBray Praises the Indian Reorganization Act
• "It Didn't Pan Out as We Thought It Was Going To" Amos Owen on the Indian Reorganization Act
• The Los Angeles Dressmakers Strike of 1933: Anita Andrade Castro Becomes a Union Activist
• A Family Corresponds: Polish Immigrants in the Early 20th century
• "All That Is Passed Away": A Young Indian Praises U.S. Government Policy in the Late 19th century
• A German Jewish Woman Settles in North Dakota
• Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech
• W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington
• A Chinese Immigrant Makes His Home in Turn-of-the-Century America
• A German Radical Emigrates to America in 1885
• Kate Richards O'Hare's Life as a Socialist Party Organizer
• Race and Racism at the 1886 Knights of Labor Convention
• Haymarket Martyr Louis Lingg Says Good-bye
• Haymarket Martyr Albert Parsons's Last Words to His Wife
• "I Am Sorry Not to Be Hung": Oscar Neebe and the Haymarket Affair
• Slumming Among the Unemployed: William Wycoff Studies Joblessness in the 1890s
• History of Early Settlement in the U.S.
• Teaching the U.S. Civil War
• "Their Own Hotheadedness": Senator Benjamin R."Pitchfork Ben" Tillman Justifies Violence Against Southern Blacks
• Killing the Messenger: Ida Wells-Barnett Protests a Postmaster's Murder in 1898
• No Way Out: Two New York City Firemen Testify about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
• American Soldiers in the Philippines Write Home about the War
• Bitter Harvest: A Puerto Rican Farmer Laments U.S. Control of the Island
• Beyond Bed Pans: The Life of a Late 19th-century Young Nurse
• Camella Teoli Testifies about the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike
• "Oh God, For One More Breath": Early 20th century Tennessee Coal Miners' Last Words
• A Year's Wage for Three Peaches: A Black Man Tells of Exploitation in the Late 19th century South
• George Kills in Sight Describes the Death of Indian Leader Crazy Horse
• "I Just Loved that School": Henrietta Chief Recalls an Indian Boarding School in the Early 20th century
• A Woman Recounts Her Twelve Abortions in Turn-of-the-Century New York
• Burned into Memory: An African American Recalls Mob Violence in Early 20th century Florida
• "I Started Filling Rifles": A Woman Strike Supporter Remembers the 1914 Ludlow Massacre
• Every Picture Tells A Story: Documentary Photography and the Great Depression
• The Amistad Case in Fact and Film
• "I Always Had Pads with Me": A G.I. Artist's Sketchpad, 1943-1944
• "It Set the Indian Aside as a Problem"A Sioux Attorney Criticizes the Indian Reorganization Act
• "I Am Obliged to Reside in America": A Gay Immigrant Tells His Story in 1882
• "The Greatest Tyrant in the State of Pennsylvania": A Late Nineteenth-Century Rail Worker Describes Management
• "We Are Literally Slaves": An Early Twentieth-Century Black Nanny Sets the Record Straight
• "Drug Him Through the Street": Hughsey Childes Describes Turn-of-the-Century Sharecropping
• "Still Livin' Under the Bonds of Slavery": Minnie Whitney Describes Sharecropping at the Turn-of-the-Century
• "We Didn't Have Flies Until the White Man Came": A Yankton Sioux Remembers Life on the Plains in the Late 19th century
• "Genesee Had Railroads": Kenneth Platt Recalls the Importance of the Railroad to Late Nineteenth-Century Western Towns
• "Everything Was Lively": David Hickman Describes the Prosperity Late Nineteenth-Century Railroads Brought to the West
• Making the Atlanta Compromise: Booker T. Washington Is Invited to Speak
• "Equal and Exact Justice to Both Races": Booker T. Washington on the Reaction to his Atlanta Compromise Speech
• "Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are": Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech
• "You Would Never Hear People Complain": Elfido López Recalls Rural Mexican-American Life in the Late 19th century
• "The White Man's Road is Easier!": A Hidatsa Indian Takes up the Ways of the White Man in the Late 19th century
• "The Baby Was Made 'Delegate No. 800'": Frances Willard Meets Elizabeth Rodgers in the 1880s
• "We Sang Rock of Ages": Frances Willard Battles Alcohol in the late 19th century
• "A Less Reliable Form of Birth Control": Miriam Allen deFord Describes Her Introduction to Contraception in 1914
• "I Stumbled on the Place by Sheer Accident": Oscar Ameringer Discovers the Cincinnati Public Library in 1888
• "It Was Considered Low Music": Pianist Eubie Blake on the Birth of Ragtime at the Turn of the Century
• "A Healthy Public Opinion": Terence V. Powderly Distances the Knights of Labor from the Haymarket Martyrs
• "His Act is Doublely Despicable": Albert Parsons Responds to His Condemnation by Terence V. Powderly
• "The Bad News From Chicago": Labor Organizer Oscar Ameringer Describes the Effect of the Haymarket Bombing on the Knights of Labor
• "I Will Kill Frick": Emma Goldman Recounts the Attempt to Assassinate the Chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company During the: Homestead Strike in 1892
• "A Perfect Hailstorm of Bullets": A Black Sergeant Remembers the Battle of San Juan Hill in 1899
• Dissatisfied With the Lives They Live: Farm Women Describe Their Work in a 1913 U.S. Department of Agriculture Report
• Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
• Using Oral History to Teach U.S. History
• "We Ran Silent Movies For Years": An Italian Immigrant Goes Into Show Business in the Early 20th century
• "I Was Not Wanted Any Longer": A Retail Worker Joins the Union in 1914 and Gets Fired
• Defending Home and Hearth: Walter White Recalls the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
• "The Poisonous Occupations in Illinois": Physician Alice Hamilton Explores the "Dangerous Trades" at the Turn of the Century
• "I Witnessed the Steel Strike": Joe Rudiak Remembers the 1919 Strike
• "There Wasn't a Mine Runnin' a Lump O' Coal": A Kentucky Coal Miner Remembers the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
• The Last Days Remembered: A Compatriot Recalls the Deaths of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927
• "Like One Big Family": A Former Textile Worker Describes the Closeness of the Southern Mill Village in the 1920s
• Dancing after Dark: A Rural Woman Recalls Farm Life in the Early 20th century
• Saturday Night on the Range: Rural Life in World War I Era Montana
• Good Neighbors and Bad: Religious Differences on the Plains in the Early 20th century
• "On the Night When the Levee Broke": William Cobb Remembers the 1927 Mississippi Flood
• "Seven All Together Went Down": A Family Disappears in the 1927 Mississippi Flood
• "Defending Greenwood": A Survivor Recalls the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
• "I Limited My Own Family": Memoir of a 1920s Birth Control Activist
• "The Depression has Changed People's Outlook": The Beuschers Remember the Great Depression in Dubuque, Iowa
• Losing the Business: The Donners Recall the Great Depression
• Deaf and Unemployed in Dubuque: The DiMarcos Remember the Great Depression
• "Such Cases of Outrageous Unspeakable Abuse...": A Puerto Rican Migrant Protests Labor Conditions During World War I
• "I Was More of a Citizen": A Puerto Rican Garment Worker Describes Discrimination in the 1920s
• "The Greatest Thing": A Kentucky Coal Miner on the 1933 Revival of the United Mine Workers of America
• "This Is What the Union Done": The Story of the United Mine Workers of America in Song
• The Big Strike: A Journalist Describes the 1934 San Francisco Strike
• "Treated Like Slaves": Textile Workers Write to Washington in the 1930s and 1940s
• "What He Has Done Is Sickening to Contemplate": Catholic Liberal John Ryan Denounces Father Charles Coughlin
• "Must a Fellow Wait to Die?": Workers Write to Frances Perkins
• "What You Really Want Is an Autopsy": Frances Perkins and the U. S. Government Conference in Joplin, Missouri, 1940
• Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson
• Studs Terkel: Conversations with America
• "Hearty Big Strong Men All Died": The Lasting Impact of the Silicosis "Plague" in the 1930s
• "Right After That They Walked Out": Alice Wolfson Recalls the Origins of the CIO
• Suspicion of Subversion: Congressional Conservatives Attack the Federal Theater Project
• "It Was a Wildly Exciting Time": Milton Meltzer Remembers the New Deal's Federal Theatre Project
• "We Are Americans!": The Homestead Workers Issue a Declaration of Independence in 1936
• "That Broke Down the Ethnic Barriers": A Steelworker Describes the Decline of Ethnic Hostility in the 1930s
• "This Is the Pressure That They Used": Genora Dollinger Recalls the Flint Sit-Down Strike
• "I Was Able to Make My Voice Really Ring Out": The Women's Emergency Brigade in the Flint Sit-Down Strike
• "Please Help Us Mr. President": Black Americans Write to FDR
• "The Man . . . Died on My Lap": One Women Recalls the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937
• "80 Rounds in Our Pants Pockets": Orville Quick Remembers Pearl Harbor
• "Cutting a New Path": A World War II Navy Nurse Fights Sexism in the Military
• "Why Did We Have to Win It Twice?": A Physicist Remembers His Work on the First Atomic Bomb
• "I Saw The Walking Dead": A Black Sergeant Remembers Buchenwald
• "Shooting at People Wasn't Our Bag": One of the Inventors of the Computer Speaks
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present
• Impeachment 1868/1999
• Working for the Triangle Shirtwaist Company
• American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
• America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864
• California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
• American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
• Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929
• African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
• Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920
• Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
• American Family Immigration History Center
• New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939
• CQ Historic Documents Series: Online Edition
• By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
• Washington As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959
• Making of America
• Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz before 1930
• Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
• The Digital Classroom
• History and Politics Out Loud
• Thomas A. Edison Papers
• CongressLink
• Mark Twain in His Times
• Regarding Vietnam: Stories Since the War
• Documenting the American South
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Jewish Women's Archive
• Nineteenth-Century California Sheet Music
• Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas
• Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Maritime Antebellum America
• Who Killed William Robinson?
• World War I Document Archive
• Temperance and Prohibition
• New Deal Network
• Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
• NativeWeb: Resources for Indigneous Cultures Around the World
• Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
• Virtual Jamestown
• Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
• Historical Census Browser
• Oregon Trail
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
• Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
• Rutgers Oral History Archives
• CWIHP: Cold War International History Project
• Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record
• South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection
• Origins of American Animation
• Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
• Jewish-American History on the Web
• Digital History
• Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America
• Analyzing an 1804 Inventory
• Divining America: Religion and the National Culture
• Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
• George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799
• Hagley Digital Archives
• Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
• Truman Presidential Museum and Library
• Historical Maps of the United States
• Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
• Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
• U.S. Senate Historical Office
• Wet with Blood: The Investigation of Mary Todd Lincoln's Cloak
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Digital Archives
• The Papers of George Washington
• California Historical Society
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
• Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
• Thomas Jefferson Papers
• The Presidents
• African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
• Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina
• Ad*Access
• The Dramas of Haymarket
• Famous Trials
• Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
• Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life
• Gold Rush!
• Web de Anza
• River of Song
• Africans in America
• Toledo's Attic: A Virtual Museum of Toledo, Ohio
• American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
• "Kill the Indian, and Save the Man": Capt. Richard H. Pratt on the Education of Native Americans
• Ballad to a Massacre: Private Prather's Portrait of Wounded Knee
• A Mormon Woman's Life in Southern Utah
• Lament for "The Lost Pardner"
• A Cowboy's Work is Never Done: George Martin
• Trials of the Trail: African-American Cowboy Will Crittendon
• Gimme A Break! Mark Twain Lampoons the Horatio Alger Myth
• "Selfish wealth is never good": A Worker's Definition of Success
• "We ask it; we demand it, and we intend to have it": Printer Albert R. Parsons Testifies before Congress about the Eight Hour Day
• The Zimmerman Telegram: Bringing America Closer to War
• War Is "a Blessing, Not a Curse": The Case for Why We Must Fight
• The United States and the Mexican Revolution: "A Danger for All Latin American Countries," Letters from Venustiano Carranza
• The War and the Intellectuals: Randolph Bourne Vents His Animus Against War
• "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier": Singing Against the War
• Making the World "Safe for Democracy": Woodrow Wilson Asks for War
• "Conclusions and Recommendations by the Committee of Six Disinterested Americans"
• "The People Were Very Peaceable": The U.S. Senate Investigates the Haitian Occupation
• Bandits or Patriots?: Documents from Charlemagne Péralte
• "Avoid the Use of the Word Intervention": Wilson and Lansing on the U.S. Invasion of Mexico
• John Reed's "What About Mexico?": The United States and the Mexican Revolution
• Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
• "The Project Method": Child-Centeredness in Progressive Education
• Defending the Wheat Farmer: "The Farmer and Three Dollar Wheat"
• "Eight Hours in the Forenoon, Eight Hours in the Afternoon": An IWW Organizer Describes the Horrors of Rural Work
• "Harvest Land": A Lyrical Critique of John Farmer
• The New Middle-Class Housekeeping: "How I Keep House without a Maid"
• "The March of the Psychos": Measuring Intelligence in the Army
• In Defense of IQ Testing: Lewis M. Terman Replies to Critics
• "The Facts Must Be Faced": Intelligence Is Destiny
• Housewives in Uniform: Domesticity as Military Duty
• Suffrage On Stage: Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition
• Suffrage in Print: Alice Duer Miller's Satiric Journalism
• Singing for Suffrage: A Yiddish Musical Dialogue
• An NAACP Official Calls for Censorship of The Birth of a Nation
• "God Knows More about Time Than President Wilson": Letters against Daylight Saving
• "Unlimited Possibilities for Evil": Hollywood Resists Daylight Saving
• Patriotic Housekeeping: Good Housekeeping Recruits Kitchen Soldiers
• Four Minute Men: Volunteer Speeches During World War I
• "The Failure of German-Americanism": Reinhold Niebuhr Blames German Immigrants for Their Problems During WWI
• "Orgies of Ruthlessness": Bishop Quayle on German Atrocities During World War I
• "Facts . . . Are the Only Arsenal": Information and the War Cyclopedia in World War I
• "Says Lax Conditions Caused Race Riots": Chicago Daily News and Carl Sandburg Report the Chicago Race Riot of 1919
• "A Crowd of Howling Negroes": The Chicago Daily Tribune Reports the Chicago Race Riot, 1919
• "Ghastly Deeds of Race Rioters Told": The Chicago Defender Reports the Chicago Race Riot, 1919
• "The Problem" and "Family Histories": Charles Johnson Analyzes the Causes of the Chicago Race Riot
• "Chicago and Its Eight Reasons": Walter White Considers the Causes of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot
• "The Hand of God" in the League of Nations: President Woodrow Wilson Presents the Treaty of Paris to the Senate
• "The Most Brainiest Man?" The Red Scare and Free Speech in Connecticut
• "Sailor Wounds Spectator Disrespectful of Flag": The Red Scare, 1919-1921
• "An Eminently Safe Citizen": Robert Benchley on "The Making of a Red"
• "Save Sacco and Vanzetti": The Defense Committee's Plea
• "They Are Dead Now": Eulogy for Sacco and Vanzetti
• "March On, O Dago Christs": Sacco and Vanzetti Memorialized
• "We Stand Defeated America": Sacco and Vanzetti in U.S.A.
• U.S. Intervention in Central America: Kellogg's Charges of a Bolshevist Threat
• "To Abolish the Monroe Doctrine": Proclamation from Augusto César Sandino
• "Un Colombian con Sandino": U.S. Intervention in Central America
• "More Work for Mother"?: Scientific Management At Home
• "The Ancient Days Have Not Departed": Calvin Coolidge on the Spirituality of Commerce
• "A Man's Thanksgiving": A Hymn to the God of Business
• Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Makes "The Case against the Reds"
• Reformer Jane Addams Critiques The Birth of a Nation
• "A Modern School": Abraham Flexner Outlines Progressive Education
• Fractured Fairy Tale: Meet Little Rosebud's Lovers
• Horatio Alger's American Fable: "The World Before Him"
• "The Rich Are Good-Natured": William Graham Sumner Defends the Wealthy
• What's Good for the Goose. . . : Labor and the Theory of Evolution
• Ode to the Odious: A Poet Ridicules Laissez-Faire
• "The introduction of Caliban to Cadmus": John Swinton on Working-Class Literacy
• Mind Your Business!: One Woman's Encounter with Reformers
• Pilgrims' Progress: A Seventeenth-Century Solution to the Nineteenth-Century Conflict between Labor and Capital
• Law and Order: William Law and the Power of Organization
• Cain and Abel Revisited: A Case for Keeping thy Brother
• A Labor Newspaper Derides the Myth of the Self-Made Man
• A Workingman's Prayer for the Masses
• Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Workers Protest Carnegie Library
• An Anarchist by Any Other Name: Albert Parsons and Anarchist Socialism
• Gertie Refuses a Suitor: Edna Ferber's "The Frog and the Puddle"
• Altared States: Marriage Ends an Organizer's Career
• Home Sweet Home: Building and Loan Associations Lend a Hand
• Tales from the Saloon
• Stranger Than Fiction?: The Reading Habits of Early Twentieth-Century Working Women
• Bethlehem Digital History Project
• "It Has No Popular Support": Robert M. La Follette Votes Against a Declaration of War
• "The Truth about Haiti: An NAACP Investigation"
• Effie Bauer Turns Down Gabie Marks: Edna Ferber's "One of the Old Girls"
• Home on the Range: Richard Phillips
• The Secret Life of Shop Girls: O. Henry's Short Story "The Trimmed Lamp"
• Introducing New Recruits to "Labor's Catechism"
• "The Brotherhood of Man": A Unionist Uses the Bible
• "In the Sight of God": Woes of a Miner's Wife
• Was Christ a Union Man?
• A Pledge of Allegiance: Joining the Grange
• Written in Stone: The Ten Commandments of the Grange
• Plan for Action: Organizing the Grangers
• In Search of Eden: Black Utopias in the West
• "I Seen My Opportunities and I Took 'Em.": An Old-Time Pol Preaches Honest Graft
• Gender Bender: Mary Masquerades as Murray
• "Pumpkin Smasher" Predicts the Ultimate Redemption of Coal Miners
• "A Rale Boost to Lithrachoor": A Humorist Lampoons Libraries
• Whose Library Is It Anyway?: A Visit to the Lenox
• Eye on the East: Labor Calls for Ban on Chinese Immigration
• A Clear and Present Danger: The Chinese Exclusion Act
• "Pure and Simple": Making the Case for Unionism
• Wheel of Fortune: Frances Willard Discovers the Bicycle
• "Making Common Cause": The Knights' Assembly Hall
• Knight Errant: Drawing the Line on Black-White Equality
• Black Comedy: Racial Controversy at the Richmond Convention
• "Rock Springs is Killed": White Reaction to the Rock Springs Riot
• "To This We Dissented": The Rock Springs Riot
• Fair's Fair: McDonnell Argues for Acceptance of Aliens
• The Fight Begins at Home: Jewett Defends Asian Immigrants
• "Our Misery and Despair": Kearney Blasts Chinese Immigration
• "In the Beginning . . .": A Knight's Sacred Oath
• An Early Sociologist Surveys the Fraternal Orders
• "Business . . . the Salvation of the World": Celebrating Big Business
• The "One Best Way" to Wash: A Home Economist Explains
• "Learning on the Piece-Rate Plan": Economist Thorstein Veblen Attacks the Commercialization of Knowledge
• Cartooning for Victory: World War I Instructions to Artists
• "Cotton Belt Blues": Lizzie Miles's Blues Song
• "The Negro and the War": Reports in African-American Newspapers
• Victory on the Menu: Recipes and Rationing
• Enemies, A Drama of Modern Marriage: The Sexual Revolution Enacted
• "Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself": FDR's First Inaugural Address
• Patently Absurd?
• "We Took Away Their Best Lands, Broke Treaties": John Collier Promises to Reform Indian Policy
• "A Bill of Rights for the Indians": John Collier Envisions an Indian New Deal
• "Like a Thick Wall": Blocking Farm Auctions in Iowa
• "The Gigantic Forces of Depression Are Today in Retreat": Hoover Insists That Things Are Getting Better
• Oh Yeah?: Herbert Hoover Predicts Prosperity
• Puerto Rican Laborers during World War I: The Deposition of Rafael Marchán
• The Origins of Puerto Rican Migration: U.S. Employment Service Bulletin (1918)
• To Save Ourselves: "Anti-Japanese Activities of the Members of the CHLA"
• To Save China: "New York Hand Laundry Alliance Intensifies Anti-Japanese Work"
• The Vagrant in Fiction: Emblematic American?
• When Racism Was Respectable: Franz Boas on "The Instability of Human Types"
• "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?": Defending Liberal Protestantism in the 1920s
• "Shall We Gather at the River?": Aimee Semple McPherson on Prohibition
• "Not Rum but Righteousness": Billy Sunday Attacks Booze
• Warning Against the "Roman Catholic Party": Catholicism and the 1928 Election
• Should a Catholic Be President?: A Contemporary View of the 1928 Election
• "I Will Not Be Influenced in Appointments": Al Smith Accepts the Nomination for President
• Not All Caucasians Are White: The Supreme Court Rejects Citizenship for Asian Indians
• "The Senate's Declaration of War": Japan Responds to Japanese Exclusion
• Who Was Shut Out?: Immigration Quotas, 1925-1927
• An "Un-American Bill": A Congressman Denounces Immigration Quotas
• "Shut the Door": A Senator Speaks for Immigration Restriction
• "Love and Companionship Came First": Floyd Dell on Modern Marriage
• "The Civilizing Force of Birth Control": Margaret Sanger Becomes a Moderate
• "I Am Almost a Prisoner": Women Plead for Contraception
• "No Gods, No Masters": Margaret Sanger on Birth Control
• "When the Whistle Blows . . . I Come Home and Get Supper": Women and Work in the Interwar Years
• Poet William Carlos Williams Describes the Crowd at the Ballpark
• The National Pastime in the 1920s: The Rise of the Baseball Fan
• Journalists Pay Homage to Babe Ruth and the House That He Built
• "1500 Doomed": People's Press Reports on the Gauley Bridge Disaster
• 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs: The Dangers of Consumption
• Pure Personal Government: Roosevelt Goes Too Far in Packing the Court
• "Younger and More Vigorous Blood": FDR on the Judiciary
• FDR versus Nine Old Men: Schechter v. United States
• "Susie Steno": A Union's View of Clerical Workers
• Hear Joe Louis Knock Out Max Schmeling: Black Sports Heroes in the Depression Era
• "Waitin' on Roosevelt": Langston Hughes's "Ballad of Roosevelt"
• "Gonna Miss President Roosevelt": The Blues for FDR
• "Do Insects Think?" Robert Benchley Satirizes Science
• "Complete Nudity Is Never Permitted": The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930
• "Art Within Reach": Federal Art Project Community Art Centers
• Painting the American Scene: Artists Assess the Federal Art Project
• Looking for America: The Index of American Design
• "The Yeast which Makes the Bread Rise": Hallie Flanagan on Drama as Politics
• "A Well-Mannered Bandit and a Killer": Little Berta Ballard Remembers Billy the Kid
• "One Third of a Nation": FDR's Second Inaugural Address
• The Real Estate Industry Lobby and Public Housing in the 1930s
• "Huey Long Is a Superman": Gerald L. K. Smith Defends the Kingfish
• "He's a Demagogue, That's What He Is": Hodding Carter on Huey Long
• "Share the Wealth": Huey Long Talks to the Nation
• "The (Second) Greatest Teacher of All Time": Father Coughlin's Followers Fight Back
• "Somebody Must be Blamed": Father Coughlin Speaks to the Nation
• The Column That Launched a Union
• "No Snuggling!" Sex Talks to Young Girls
• "The Great Prevalence of Sexual Inversion": Havelock Ellis on Gay Life in the American City
• Inventing Homosexuality: Chicago Vice Crusaders Confront Sexual "Perversion" in the Theater
• Bobbed Hair Blues: A Mexican-American Song Laments "Las Pelonas"
• The New Woman of the 1920s: Debating Bobbed-Hair
• "Now Tulsa Does Care": A White Tulsan's Perspective on the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
• "The Eruption of Tulsa": An NAACP Official Investigates the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
• Robert Bagnall on "The Madness of Marcus Garvey"
• "The Collapse of the Only Thing in the Garvey Movement Which Was Original or Promising": Du Bois on Garvey
• "Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World": The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
• "The Black Star Line": Singing a Song of Garveyism
• "If You Believe the Negro Has a Soul": "Back to Africa" with Marcus Garvey
• "Our Reason for Being": A. Philip Randolph Embraces Socialism
• Elise Johnson McDougald on "The Double Task: The Struggle of Negro Women for Sex and Race Emancipation"
• "The New Negro": "When He's Hit, He Hits Back!"
• "Let Us Reason Together": W. E. B. Du Bois Defends Black Resistance
• The Harlem Renaissance: George Schuyler Argues against "Black Art"
• "If We Must Die": Claude McKay Limns the "New Negro"
• The Harlem Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston's First Story
• "The Greatest Hebrew Ace": "Levine mit Zayn Flaying Mashin"
• Welcoming Home a Hero: Calvin Coolidge and Charles Lindbergh Speak
• Congress Investigates the 1934 San Francisco Strike
• "The Republic Is Imperiled": John L. Lewis Warns of Ignoring Laboring People
• "Union Dues": Coal Miners Express Their Gratitude to FDR
• "Word Has Just Been Received": Truman Speaks on the Railroad Strike
• GM Rejects Reuther's Call to "Open the Books": The Post-WWII Strike Wave
• Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
• "Hello, You Fighting Orphans": "Tokyo Rose" Woos U.S. Sailors and Marines
• "We Need to Exterminate Them": A Marine Describes the Battle of Guam
• A Japanese Soldier Describes the Horrors of Guadalcanal
• "The World Will Note": President Truman Announces the Atom Bomb
• Equal Pay for Equal Work: The War Labor Board on Gender Inequality
• The War Labor Board Insists on Equal Pay for Black Workers
• Roll Hitler Out and Roll the Union In: The No-Strike Pledge
• "A Square Deal?": The Michigan CIO Debates the No-Strike Pledge
• "Obey Your Air Raid Warden": Big Band as Public Service Announcement
• "This Is No Time for You to Take a Rest": Hollywood Goes to War
• "Shaping Mental and Moral Forces": Memo on Propaganda
• Korematsu v. United States: The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Internment
• "Evacuation Was a Mistake": Anger at Being Interned
• Milton Eisenhower Justifies the Internment of Japanese Americans
• Executive Order 9066: The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation
• "Pachucos in the Making": Roots of the Zoot
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• Cartoonists on the Picket Line: The Walt Disney Studio Strike
• Against Isolationism: James F. Byrnes Refutes Lindbergh
• "An Independent Destiny for America": Charles A. Lindbergh on Isolationism
• Didactic Dramas: Antiwar Plays of the 1930s
• The "Man in the Street" Reacts to Pearl Harbor
• "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy": FDR Asks for a Declaration of War
• "This Is No Joke: This Is War": A Live Radio Broadcast of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Landon in a Landslide: The Poll That Changed Polling
• The Reply to Mexico: Standard Oil Puts Forth Its Position
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• Debunking Intelligence Experts: Walter Lippmann Speaks Out
• Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons
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• The Second Amendment Under Fire: The Uses of History and the Politics of Gun Control
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• Class Versus Gender: Catt Taps Middle-Class and Nativist Fears to Boost Women's Causes
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  Seven Letters from the Great Migration
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• "Can I Scrub Your White Marble Steps?"A Black Migrant Recalls Life in Philadelphia
• "Don[']t Have to Mister Every Little White Boy. . .": Black Migrants Write Home
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• "Bryan's Mental Condition:" One Psychiatrist's View
• Bryan's "Cross of Gold" Speech: Mesmerizing the Masses
• "I Am a Democrat and not a Revolutionist": Senator David Bennett Hill Defends the Gold Standard
• "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman Addresses the 1896 Democratic Convention
• A Thorn in the Side: A Socialist Takes Aim at Gompers
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• The Omaha Platform: Launching the Populist Party
• Divided We Conquer: A White Plantation Owner Undermines the Knights of Labor
• Broken Spirits: Letters on the Pullman Strike
• Keep Off the Grass!: Coxey's Army Invades the Nation's Capital
• The Cook and the Governor: Seeing Eye-to-Eye on Unemployment
• Swinton's Silver Lining: Taking Comfort in the 1892 Strikes
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• Better Late Than Never?: Rickover Clears Spain of the Maine Explosion
• "Shameful Treachery": Hearst's Journal Blames Spain
• "Suspended Judgment": A Times Editorial on the Maine Tragedy
• Sounding the Depths: The Times and the Sinking of the Maine
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• "The Poor Man's Burden": Labor Lampoons Kipling
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• "The White Man's Burden": Kipling's Hymn to U.S. Imperialism
• Rosenfeld's Requiem: The Triangle Fire Victims in Verse
• Lament for Lives Lost: Rose Schneiderman and the Triangle Fire
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• The Jewish Daily Forward Reports the Triangle Tragedy
• A Call to Arms: McNeill's Unshakable Faith in Labor's Future
• Plessy v. Ferguson: Justice Harlan Dissents
• Separate But Equal: The Plessy v. Ferguson Case
• The Murder of Postmaster Baker
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• Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley
• A Separate Peace: Alice Henry on Women and Unions
• "A Foretaste of the Orient": John Murray Criticizes the AFL
• A Voice of Moderation: Roosevelt on the Armory Show
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• A Royal Disaster: Cortissoz Critiques the Armory Show
• Upstairs, Downstairs: The Science of Service
• Mrs. Frederick Teaches Women How to Wash the Dishes
• Apple Pie by the Book: Fannie Farmer vs. Catherine Beecher
• No Rest for the Weary: Children in the Coal Mines
• Outside Looking In: Byington on Homestead's Women
• Telling Tales: Byington's Study of Homestead
• "Trust in Poverty": Lampooning the Trusts
• Manifest Destiny, Continued: McKinley Defends U.S. Expansionism
• Date With Destiny: The Gonzales Diary
• "A Message to García": Elbert Hubbard's Paean to Perseverance
• HistoryLink.org: The Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History
• Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters
• "The Pageant as a Form of Propaganda": Reviews of the Paterson Strike Pageant
• The Paterson Strike Pageant Program
• T-Bone Slim Pens "The Lumberjack's Prayer"
• Gompers Calls for Action Over Cripple Creek
• Playing for the Press: Strike Coverage by the Media
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• How Many Socialists Does It Take To Screw in a Light Bulb?: Finding Humor and Pathos in Class Struggle
• The Class Ceiling: Nearing on Social Mobility
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Socialist and the Suffragist"
• Dubbing Debs: An Actor Records a Speech by Eugene Debs
• The Sun Recalls a Garment Striker's Fate
• Just Doing Our Job, Ma'am: Defending the State Police
• The People Versus the Private Army
• One Strike Against Her: A Store Clerk Dares to Join the Union
• Plugging the Leaks: A Specialist Spies on Union Activities
• Thugs for Hire: Ads for Security Guards
• Pride and Joy: Specialists in Breaking Strikes
• Experimenting with Our Liberties
• Digital Archive Collections at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library
• "The uncommon increase of Settlements in the back Country": Sir William Johnson Watches the Settlers Invade Indian Lands
• The Great Awakening Comes to Weathersfield, Connecticut: Nathan Cole's Spiritual Travels
• "Work and labor in this new and wild land are very hard": A German Migrant in Philadelphia, 1750
• "Packed Densely, Like Herrings": Gottlieb Mittelberger Warns His Countryman of the Perils of Emigration, 1750
• The Lowell Mill Girls Go on Strike, 1836
• "My Husband Was Seized With the Mania": Emigration from New York to Michigan, 1824
• "Having Tasted the Sweets of Freedom": Cato Petitions the Pennsylvania Legislature to Remain Free
• "We Are All Equally Free": New York City Workingmen Demand A Voice in the Revolutionary Struggle
• Jacob Riis Tours NewYork City's Fourth Ward
• Missed Manners: Wilson Lectures a Black Leader
• "Dam Hetch Hetchy!": John Muir Contests the Hetch-Hetchy Dam
• Giving a Dam: Congress Debates Hetch Hetchy
• Hear TR's Speech "The Liberty of the People"
• Hear Wilson's Speech "On Labor"
• Hear Taft's Speech "On Popular Unrest"
• Debs Attacks "the Monstrous System" of Capitalism
• Beginning of the End: Chapter One of Sinclair's The Jungle
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• New York Times Daily Lesson Plan and Archive
• Interview with Bill Bigelow
• Upton Sinclair Hits His Readers in the Stomach
• Working Her Fingers to the Bone: Agnes Nestor's Story
• Yale Professor William Graham Sumner Prescribes Laissez-Faire for Depression Woes
• "Leave Them Alone; That Is the Remedy": A Manufacturer's Solution to the Depression
• Plunkitt's Plain Talk: Satirizing Steffens
• The Shame of the Cities: Steffens on Urban Blight
• Lincoln Steffens Exposes "Tweed Days in St. Louis"
• Making Sense of Oral History
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• Jack London Looks at the "Simplified Language of Socialism"
• In the Hot Seat: Rockefeller Testifies on Ludlow
• Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
• Two Bits for a Tragic Tale: Walter Fink's The Ludlow Massacre
• Eyewitness to Murder: Recounting the Ludlow Massacre
• "Aint I A Woman": Reminiscences of Sojourner Truth Speaking
• A Case of Black and White: White Women Protest the Hiring of Black "Wage-Slaves"
• "Almost Broken Spirits": Farmers in the New South
• The South's Recovery: Who Paid the Price of Success?
• One African-American Dreams About Rebuilding the South
• Henry Grady Sells the "New South"
• The Supreme Court Strikes Down Railroad Regulation
• The Workingman's Ten Commandments
• The Times Reports on "the Day of Two Noons"
• Marshall Kirkman Dissects the Science of Railroads
• Andrew Carnegie's Ode to Steelmaking
• "Store Pay Is Our Ruin": The Tyranny of the Company Store
• "The Business of a Factory": A Journalist's Portrait
• The Working Girls of Boston
• Six Families Budget Their Money, 1884
• A Craft Unionist Rewrites the Ten Commandments
• Mark Twain Satirizes "A Telephonic Conversation"
• The Great Debate: Gompers Versus Hillquit
• "It's a long John": Traditional African-American Work Songs
• "Run Old Jeremiah": Echoes of the Ring Shout
• "Trouble So Hard": Singing of Slavery and Freedom
• "After the Ball": Lyrics from the Biggest Hit of the 1890s
• "One Country! One Language! One Flag!" The Invention of an American Tradition
• "I Have a Thirst that Could Sink a Ship!": Early Vaudeville
• "I'm A Gizzard": The Vaudeville Comedy of Weber and Fields
• Quittin' Time: A Visit to Chicago's Saloons
• Carnegie Speaks: A Recording of the Gospel of Wealth
• The Gospel According to Andrew: Carnegie's Hymn to Wealth
• Hear Russell Conwell Explain Why Diamonds Are A Man's Best Friend
• Russell Conwell Explains Why Diamonds Are a Man's Best Friend
• Museum of the City of New York: Byron Company Collection On Line
• Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
• A Letter Home From Massachusetts Bay in 1631
• "I Believe It Is Because I Am a Poor Indian": Samsom Occom's Life as an Indian Minister
• "I Must Of Course Have Something Of My Own Before Many More Years Have Passed Over My Head": Sally Rice Leaves the Farm, 1838
• "The Natural Tie Between Master and Apprentice has been Rent Asunder": An Old Apprentice Laments Changes in the Workplace, 1826
• Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion, 1805
• "We Will All Be Poor Here Together": A Young Family Homesteads in Nebraska, 1872
• Manager N. B. Gordon Tends to the Union Cotton and Woolen Manufactory in Mansfield, Massachusetts, 1829
• "A Severe and Proud Dame She Was": Mary Rowlandson Lives Among the Indians, 1675
• Captured By Indians: Mary Jemison Becomes an Indian
• "A Naïve and Self-Taught Artist": John Frazee Sculpts Daniel Webster, 1833
• "We Unfortunate English People Suffer Here": An English Servant Writes Home
• "Thus This Poore People Populate This Howling Desart": Edward Johnson Describes the Founding of the Town of Concord in Massachusetts Bay, 1635
• "Suffer for About the First Six Months After Leaving Home": John Doyle Writes Home to Ireland, 1818
• A Shoemaker and the Tea Party
• Bacon's Rebellion: The Declaration (1676)
• "The Happiest Laboring Class in the World": Two Virginia Slaveholders Debate Methods of Slave Management, 1837.
• "We Feel as Though Our Country Spurned Us": Soldier James Henry Gooding Protests Unequal Pay for Black Soldiers, 1863
• "They Live Well in the Time of their Service": George Alsop Writes of Servants in Maryland, 1663
• Bear Hunting in Tennessee: Davy Crockett Tells Tales, 1834
• Black Hawk Remembers Village Life Along the Mississippi
• "I Was a Cabinet-maker By Trade": A Working Man's Recollections of America, 1825-35
• "Born Yet We Are Debarred Englishmen's Liberty": A Massachusetts Soldier Confronts British Society, 1759
• "An Ignorant Back-woods Bear Hunter": Davy Crockett Runs for Office on the Tennessee Frontier
• Sarah Smith Emery - Memories of a Massachusetts Girlhood at the Turn of the 19th century
• "I Was Sure of Getting a Trade": John Fitch's Long Journey Towards Becoming an Artisan
• "A Most Awkward, Ridiculous Appearance": Benjamin Franklin Enters Philadelphia
• "I Wove To-day": Elizabeth Fuller Grows Up in Rural Massachusetts
• George Hewes' Recollection of the Boston Massacre
• The War for Independence Through Seneca Eyes: Mary Jemison Views the Revolution, 1775-79
• "The Moment That The Snows Are Melted The Indian Women Begin Their Work": Iroquois Women Work the Fields
• "Your People Live Only Upon Cod": An Algonquian Response to European Claims of Cultural Superiority
• The Dutch Arrive on Manhattan Island: An Indian Perspective
• "The Treatment of the Help in Those Days Was Cruel": Hiram Munger Remembers Factory Life
• "Factories are talked about as schools of vice": Elias Nason Considers Careers
• "We Are Not Entirely Out of Civilization": A Homesteader Writes Home in 1873
• Sarah Osborn Recollects Her Experiences in the Revolutionary War, 1837
• "There Is Something To Be Learned Even in a Country Store": P.T. Barnum Learns Commerce in a Connecticut Country Store
• "Such Was the Tumultation These Women Made": The Women of Marblehead Wreak Revenge Upon Indian Captors, 1677
• William Manning, "A Laborer," Explains Shays Rebellion in Massachusetts: "In as Plain a Manner as I Am Capable"
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• "What Can You Get By Warre": Powhatan Exchanges Views With Captain John Smith, 1608"
• "They Must Work Harder Than Ever": "A Working Man" Remembers Life in New York City, 1830s
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• Dynamics of Idealism: Volunteers for Civil Rights, 1965-1982
• "A condition we can ill afford": Debating the Equal Pay Act of 1963
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• Traveler John Ball Visits Hawaii in 1833.
• The Burlend Family Encounters America's System for Populating the West, Pike Country, Illinois, 1830s
• "Is This America?": An English Family Travels Up the Mississippi to Their New Home in Illinois, 1831
• The Canal Boat: Nathaniel Hawthorne Travels the Erie Canal
• "All Men Are Born Free and Equal": Massachusetts Yeomen Oppose the "Aristocratickal" Constitution, January, 1788.
• "A Devil to Tempt and a Corrupt Heart to Deceive," John Dane Battles Life's Temptations, ca. 1670s.
• "I Hope to Fall With My Face to the Foe": Lewis Douglass Describes the Battle of Fort Wagner, 1863
• "If It Were Not For My Trust in Christ I Do Not Know How I Could Have Endured It": Testimony from Victims of New York's Draft Riots, July, 1863
• "We Call On You to Deliver Us From the Tyrant's Chain": Lowell Women Workers Campaign for a Ten Hour Workday
• "No One Ever Hurried During 'Cake-time": Work and Leisure a New York Shipyard, 1835
• "Born in Sin, Nurtured in Crime": The Children of New York City's Notorious Five Points, 1854
• "From a Child I Was Fond of Reading": Benjamin Franklin Becomes a Printer
• An Old New York Cabinet Maker: Experiences of Ernest Hagen
• "I Subscribe Myself a Friend to the Oppressed": Henry Bibb Writes to his Former Master, 1844
• Former Slave Elizabeth Keckley and the "Contraband" of Washington DC, 1862.
• Dressmaker and Former Slave Elizabeth Keckley (ca.1818-1907), Tells How She Gained Her Freedom, 1868.
• Ku Klux Klan Violence in Georgia, 1871
• Metacom Relates Indian Complaints about the English Settlers, 1675
• "So Must We Be One..., Otherwise We Shall Be All Gone Shortly": Narragansett Chief Miantonomi Tries to Form an Alliance Against Settlers in New England and Long Island, 1640s.
• One Year in the Life of Thomas Minor, Connecticut Farmer, 1668.
• "A Person Like Me, Oppress'd By Dame Fortune, Need Not Care Where He Goes": The "Infortunate" William Moraley Tries His Luck in America, 1729.
• "It Was a Mournful Scene Indeed": Solomon Northup Remembers the New Orleans Slave Market
• "For Oregon!" Settlers From Illinois Describe the New Territory, 1847
• John P. Parker, Conductor, on the Underground Railroad
• "Shew Yourselves to be Freemen": Herman Husband and the North Carolina Regulators, 1769
• "Their Extraordinary Great Labor": Roger Williams Observes Indian Customs and Language, 1643
• "Their Habits Of Order Are Carried to the Extreme": A Lowell Mill Worker Visits the Shakers
• Andrew Sherburne's Experiences on a Privateer During the Revolutionary War
• "Natural and Inalienable Right to Freedom": Slaves' Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Legislature, 1777.
• "Everything Here is New But the Forests": Englishman Thomas Woodcock Travels to Niagara on the Erie Canal, 1836.
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• Can 52,600,000 TV Set Owners Be Wrong?: Look Magazine Assesses American Television in 1960
• "Belles of the Ball Game": Women's Professional Baseball League Thrives in the 1940s
• "Mr. Local Custom Must Die": An Analysis of the Racial Situation in the South in 1960 as Civil Rights Activism Increased
• "A Youngster Needs a Knowledge of the Present": A Popular Magazine Urges Tolerance for the Distractions of Youth
• "The Ordeal of Bobby Cain": Racial Confrontation at a Newly Integrated Southern High School
• "What I Tell My Child About Color": Black and White Fathers in Atlanta Try to Explain Race Relations to Their Sons
• "A Mother's Duty to Her Children": No Women with Dependent Children in the Armed Forces Reserves
• "Forcing the Resignation of Women with Minor Children Is in This Day and Age an Anachronism": Support for Change in Army Policy
• "To Dictate the Terms of Motherhood": A Female Reservist Challenges Army Policy
• "We Don't Know What Will Happen to Our People": A Mill Worker Describes Effects of Layoffs on a Virginia Mill Town
• "Efficient Farms Need Not Pay Starvation Wages": The Fair Labor Standards Act and Migratory Agricultural Workers
• "The Laundry Loses Business to Its Customers": An Appeal to Exempt Personal Service Businesses from Federal Minimum Wage and Maximum Hours Legislation
• "Among the Most Exploited": Fair Labor Standards Act and Laundry Workers
• "The Act Has Not Failed": A Call to Extend the Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Letters to the Editor about Alan Paton's 1954 Article " The Negro in America Today"
• "The Negro in the North": South African Novelist Alan Paton Dissects the Racial Situation Beyond the South
• The Rating Game: Broadcasters Rely on Poll Numbers They Don't Trust
• "Democracy Can't Live in These Houses": Senator Paul Douglas Advocates a Federal Housing Program to Clear Slum Areas
• "Stereatronics--A New Science That Will Change Your Way of Life"
• "Stalking the Stork": An Expose of Espionage in the Baby Clothes Industry
• "A Clear Signal to Officials of the White South: 'Go Back to Your Old Ways'": Vernon Jordan Argues Against the Nixon Administration's Voting Rights Proposal
• "Women Without Men": The Pros and Cons of a "Man-Free Life"
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• A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution
• "I Can't Fight Alone": James Meredith Calls on All Blacks to Participate in the Struggle for Racial Equality
• "Digest Of Jim-Crow Laws Affecting Passengers in Interstate Travel"
• "A Definite and Imperative Need for Legislation Against Discrimination"
• "No Heat, No Water . . . and a Large Sign Reading 'Colored'": Inequality in "Separate but Equal" Railroad Accommodations
• "Supreme Court Decisions Just Are Not Enough": The Need for Federal Legislation to Desegregate the South
• "The Negro Voter: Can He Elect a President?"
• "Everybody Seems to Feel Obliged to Acquire a Tan"
• "And These Are the Children of God": Fears of Homegrown Terrorism in Cold War America
• "Part of the Government Activity": Testimony from an African-American Taxpayer Unable to Vote in Alabama
• "Mob Rule Cannot Be Allowed to Override the Decisions of Our Courts": President Dwight D. Eisenhower"s 1957 Address on Little Rock, Arkansas
• "And We Shall Overcome": President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to Congress
• "The Negro in America Today": South African Novelist Alan Paton Dissects the Racial Situation in the South in the Year of Brown v. Board of Education
• "The Rights of All Must Be Secured or the Rights of None Will Be Secure": Arguments for Federal Civil Rights Legislation
• "Get on the Ground and We Will Kick Your Head In": A Reporter Tells of Terrorism in Alabama
• "We Can Control Our Affairs Pretty Well": Southern Senators Protest Proposed Antilynching Legislation
• "Our Plantation Is Very Weak": The Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia, 1623
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• "There Was Never Any Pay-day For the Negroes": Jourdon Anderson Demands Wages
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• "A Religious Flame That Spread All Over Kentucky": Peter Cartwright Brings Evangelical Christianity to the West, 1801-04
• "All To Me Was New and Strange": Mary Doolittle Leaves Her Family for a Shaker Community, 1830
• "Is It Not Enough that We Are Torn From Our Country and Friends?": Olaudah Equiano Describes the Horrors of the Middle Passage, 1780s
• "Kentucke, Which I Esteemed a Second Paradise:" Daniel Boone Crosses the Mountains and Visits Kentucky, 1769-71
• "My Heart Was So Full of Love That It Overflowed": Charles Grandison Finney Experiences Conversion
• Iroquois Creation Myth, 1816
• "So Cheapened the White Man's Labor": White Artisans Contest the Labor of Black Workers, 1838
• "When We Worked on Shares, We Couldn't Make Nothing": Henry Blake Talks About Sharecropping after the Civil War
• "He Lov'd the English Extraordinary Well": Enoe Will Guides John Lawson Through the Carolina Interior, 1709
• Indian Trader John Lawson's Journal of Carolina, 1709
• Living Room Candidate: A History of Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2000
• "My Master Has Sold Albert to a Trader": Maria Perkins Writes to Her Husband, 1852
• "A Jubilee of Freedom": Freed Slaves March in Charleston, South Carolina, March, 1865
• David Johnson Recalls the Shoemakers' Shops of Lynn, Massachusetts
• "My children are Just Tied Down Here": Washington Spradling Discusses the Condition of Free Blacks in the South, 1863
• Letters of Thomas Newe to His Father, from South Carolina (1682).
• "All Over the Land Nothing Else Was Spoken Of ": Cabeza de Vaca Takes Up Residence as a Medicine Man in the Southwest, 1530s
• "It Will Require Much Time to Model the Manners and Morals of these Wild Peoples": Charles Woodmason Visits the Carolina Backcountry, 1768
• "You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves": Paul Robeson Appears Before HUAC
• "They Want to Muzzle Public Opinion": John Howard Lawson's Warning to the American Public
• "The World Was at Stake": Three "Friendly" HUAC Hollywood Witnesses Assess Pro-Soviet Wartime Films
• "A Damaging Impression of Hollywood Has Spread": Movie "Czar" Eric Johnston Testifies before HUAC
• "Have You No Sense of Decency": The Army-McCarthy Hearings
• "To Determine the Destiny of Our Black Community": The Black Panther Party's 10-Point Platform and Program
• "Communists are second to none in our devotion to our people and to our country": Prosecution and Defense Statements, 1949 Trial of American Communist Party Leaders
• "Don't Smoke--Unless You Like It": A 1950 Case Against Antismoking
• "Bring Sex Out of the Closet of Fear": A Psychologist Argues that Sex Education Can Save the American Family
• "Damage": Collier's Assesses the Army-McCarthy Hearings
• "The A-Bomb Won't Do What You Think!": An Argument Against Reliance on Nuclear Weapons
• "I'm Not Afraid of the A-Bomb": An Army Captain Tries to Dispel Fears about Radioactivity
• "The Gravest Question of Our Time": A Senator Lays Out Military Alternatives in the Post-Korean War Atomic Age
• "Not Only Ridiculous, but Dangerous": Collier's Objects to Joseph McCarthy's Attacks on the Press
• "I Cannot and Will Not Cut My Conscience to Fit This Year's Fashions": Lillian Hellman Refuses to Name Names
• "The Utopian Promise of the Peacetime Atom": Predictions and Hopes for Atomic Energy
• "Enemies from Within": Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's Accusations of Disloyalty
• President Harry S. Truman Responds to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's Accusations of Disloyalty
• "I Have Sung in Hobo Jungles, and I Have Sung for the Rockefellers": Pete Seeger Refuses to "Sing" for HUAC
• "We Must Keep the Labor Unions Clean": "Friendly" HUAC Witnesses Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney Blame Hollywood Labor Conflicts on Communist Infiltration
• "National Suicide": Margaret Chase Smith and Six Republican Senators Speak Out Against Joseph McCarthy's Attack on "Individual Freedom"
• "The Only Good Pig Is a Dead Pig": A Black Panther Paper Editor Explains a Political Cartoon
• "We Must Destroy the Capitalistic System Which Enslaves Us": Stokely Carmichael Advocates Black Revolution
• "The Higher, the Fewer": Discrimination Against Women in Academia
• "Equal Rights Are Not Special": Advocates Call for an End to Anti-Gay Employment Discrimination
• "We Are Living in a State of Anarchy": Radical Assessments and Agendas in the Year 1968
• "The American Dream Does Not Yet Exist for All Our Citizens": Kerner Commission Members Discuss Civil Unrest
• "A Shocking Instance of Brutal Employer Aggression": Antiunion Violence in a "Union-Free" Town
• "Hard, Dirty Work Should Be Paid For": A Laundry Worker Argues for a Minimum Wage
• "To Live in Health and in General Conformity with the Mores of Her Group": Defining a Minimum-Adequate Standard of Living
• "Integration Without Preparation Is Frustration": Community Reactions to the Kerner Report
• "A Complex Pattern of Past and Present Discrimination": Academics React to the Kerner Report
• "Women's Annual Earnings Are Substantially Lower than Those of Men": Statistical Studies on Women Workers
• "The Bottom of the Economic Totem Pole": African American Women in the Workplace
• Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
• George Washington: A National Treasure
• Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
• "One of the Primitive Sort": Chester Harding Becomes an Artist in the Early 19th-Century Countryside
• "The Sentiments of a Labourer": William Manning Inquires in the Key of Liberty, 1798
• Interview with Jay Pecora
• "Whom I Must Join": Elizabeth Ashbridge, an 18th-Century Englishwoman, Becomes a Quaker
• "This Muddy Place": Mary Ballou, a Boardinghouse Keeper in the California Gold Rush, 1852
• Present at the Beginning of the Gold Rush: Journalist Edward Gould Buffum Pans Gold in California, 1848
• Address of the Colored State Convention to the People of the State of South Carolina
• "Shame Bows Her to the Earth": Charlotte Temple, a Seduction Tale From Revolutionary New York
• "Dame Shirley" Describes Life at a California Gold Mining Camp in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1851
• "The Evil Shadow of Slavery No Longer Hangs Over Them": Charlotte Forten Describes Her Experiences Teaching on the South Carolina Sea Islands, 1862
• "The Meeting Continued All Night, Both by the White & Black People": Georgia Camp Meeting, 1807
• "We Was Jus' Turned Out Like a Lot of Cattle": Fountain Hughes Recalls His Life in Slavery and Freedom, Baltimore, 1944
• "They That Are Born There Talk Good English": Hugh Jones Describes Virginia's Slave Society, 1724
• "The Hunters of Kentucky": A Popular Song Celebrates the Victory of Jackson and his Frontier Fighters over the British, 1824
• "The Pulpit Being My Great Design ": A Minister in Early 18th-Century New England.
• "Wee made Good speed along": Boston Businesswoman Sarah Knight Travels From Kingston to New London, 1704
• "The Print of My Ancestors' Houses are Every Where to be Seen": Little Turtle Balks at Giving Up Land to General Anthony Wayne, 1795
• "Embryo Courtezans and Felons": New York Police Chief George W. Matsell Describes the City's Vagrant and Delinquent Children, 1849
• "As They Had Been in Ancient Times": Pedro Naranjo Relates the Pueblo Revolt, 1680
• "Fire, Fire, Scorch, Scorch!": Testimony from the Negro Plot Trials in New York, 1741
• "I Was a Very Apt Scholar in This Kind of Street Etiquette": William Otter Brawls His Way Through New York City, 1830s
• "A Foreigner in My Own Land": Juan Nepomuceno Seguin Flees Texas, 1842
• "T'was My Object to Carry Terror and Devastation Wherever We Went": Nat Turner "Confesses," Virginia, 1831
• "A Little Standing Army in Himself": N. A. Jennings Tells of the Texas Rangers, 1875
• "More Like A Pig Than a Bear": Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Is Taken Prisoner During the Bear Flag Revolt, 1846
• "To Redeem My Family": Venture Smith Frees Himself and his Family
• "Elevate Us to a Free and Independent Position": William J. Brown Looks for Work, 1831
• "We Are Not the Degraded Race You Would Make Us": Norman Asing Challenges Chinese Immigration Restrictions
• A Quaker Abolitionist Travels Through Maryland and Virginia: The Journal of John Woolman, 1757
• "Are We Nothing But Living Machines?" A New York Sewing Woman Protests Wages and Working Conditions, 1863
• Ohio Memory: An Online Scrapbook of Ohio History
• "Public Responsibilities . . . Public Wrongs": Union Officials Blame the Taft-Hartley Act for Mob Antiunion Violence
• "Violent Death in Every Form Imaginable": A Senate Committee Report Assesses "Crime and Horror" Comic Books
• "Good Shall Triumph over Evil": The Comic Book Code of 1954
• Air Waves "are in the Public Domain": Public Television Advocacy in the 1950s
• "Our Nation Is Moving Toward Two Societies, One Black, One White--Separate and Unequal": Excerpts from the Kerner Report
• "The Primary Goal Must Be a Single Society": The Kerner Report's "Recommendations for National Action"
• Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium
• Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1718-1820
• "The 'Right' To Sell" vs. "The Sanctuary of Christian Homes": Proposed Legislation to Limit Liquor Advertising
• "The Communications Media, Ironically, Have Failed to Communicate": The Kerner Report Assesses Media Coverage of Riots and Race Relations
• "A Make-Believe World": Contestants Testify to Deceptive Quiz Show Practices
• "The Unrealistic Sex": An Assessment of the Contradictory Plight of the Modern American Male
• "Every Effort Was Made to Control the Shows": A Television Producer Details and Defends Deceptive Quiz Show Practices
• "The Shadow of Incipient Censorship": The Creation of the Television Code of 1952
• "The Constant Reiteration of Horror and Violence": A Senate Report on Television and Juvenile Delinquency
• "Politics Is a Pretty Personal Thing with Women": A 1950s Look at the Impact of Women Voters
• "Men Without Women": Look Magazine' Offers a Guide to the Unmarried Man
• "A Sop to the Public at Large": Contestant Herbert Stempel Exposes Contrivances in a 1950s Television Quiz Show
• "The Truth Is the Only Thing with Which a Man Can Live": Quiz Show Contestant Charles Van Doren Publicly Confesses to Deceiving His Television Audience
• "One Should Not Look to Research as a Kind of a Panacea": Social Scientists in the 1950s Discuss Studies of Television Viewing by Children
• Plymouth Colony Archive Project
• We Were Soldiers Once . . . But Hollywood Isn't Sure in Which War
• "You have a marvelous radio voice, distinct and clear": The Public Responds to FDR's First Fireside Chat
• "Time Did Not Reconcile Me To My Chains": Charles Ball's Journey to South Carolina, 1837
• "Our People Were Dedicated": Organizing with the American G.I. Forum
• "Our First Poll Tax Drive": The American G.I. Forum Fights Disenfranchisement of Mexican Americans in Texas
• "All We Are Seeking Here Is Equal Opportunity": The American G.I. Forum Desegregates a Texas Community's Schools
• Fighting Discrimination in Mexican American Education
• "To Have Our Own Lawyers Fight Our Own Cases": The Origins of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• "Judged by Your Peers": Fighting Discrimination in Texas Court Rooms
• "Much Blood May be Shed Ere Liberty be Firmly Established": Benjamin Franklin Bache Defends the French Revolution, 1792-93
• "An Iron Furnace of Affliction": Abigail Abbot Bailey Endures the Abuse of her Husband, New Hampshire, 1790-1791
• " We Are Not Slaves": Female Shoe and Textile Workers in Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1860
• "As much land as they can handle": Johann Bolzius Writes to Germany About Slave Labor in Carolina and Georgia, 1750
• "The Starving Time": John Smith Recounts the Early History of Jamestown, 1609
• "I Believe in the Divinity of Labor": George Ripley Tries to Convince Ralph Waldo Emerson to Join Brook Farm, Boston, 1840
• "This Mysterious Road": Levi Coffin Describes his Work on the Underground Railroad in Newport, Indiana, 1820-1850
• "The Iroquois were much astonished that two men should have been killed so quickly": Samuel de Champlain Introduces Firearms to Native Warfare, 1609
• White Slaveowners Fear that the Haitian Revolution Has Arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, 1797
• "Laying Close Siege to the Enemy": Joseph Plumb Martin at the Battle of Yorktown, 1781
• "Our Hearts are Sickened": Letter from Chief John Ross of the Cherokee, Georgia, 1836
• Susie King Taylor Assists the First South Carolina Volunteers, 1862-1864
• "I Began to Feel the Happiness, Liberty, of which I Knew Nothing Before": Boston King Chooses Freedom and the Loyalists during the War for Independence
• "I Entered into Business, with Hope, Confidence, and Activity": Ann Carson Becomes an Independent Entrepreneur, ca. 1810
• "We Took Great Store of Codfish and Called it Cape Cod:" Bartholomew Gosnold Sails Along Northeastern North America, 1602
• "We Chinese Are Viewed Like Thieves and Enemies": Pun Chi Appeals to Congress to Protect the Rights of Chinese, ca. 1860
• "I found him to be a very intelligent and feeling man": Enslaved James Riley Encounters an Arab Trader, 1815
• "A Hungery Savage Look which was Truly Fearful": Samuel Chamberlain's Recollections of the Mexican War, 1846
• "Many Hundreds are Sterving for Want of Employment": John Harrower Leaves London for Virginia, 1774
• "Carried Thence for Trafficke of the West Indies Five Hundred Negroes": Job Hortop and the British Enter the Slave Trade, 1567
• "Another Race of White Men Come Amongst Us": Native American Views as British Replace the French in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1765
• Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
• "There is hard sledding ahead for the missionaries."
• "Won't they be edified!"
• Eight hours for what we will!
• "Babes on bayonets."
• The power of pictures.
• Hands across the water.
• Just before the firing started.
• Food riot, 1917.
• "This is for traitors."
• "The I.W.W. and the other features that go with it."
• "To the colored soldiers of the U.S. Army."
• New faces.
• "Society note from Moscow."
• How do you spell strike?
• "Under the Stars and Stripes."
• After the execution.
• The business of America is accommodation.
• "The national gesture."
• Goodwill.
• "Times look pretty dark to some."
• Model kitchens.
• Automobiles and milady’s mood.
• "Smoked continuously from Trepassey to Wales."
• Music and milking time.
• Composograph.
• Interview with Craig Derksen
• Making Sense of Maps
• Traveling.
• "The first vote."
• "Teaching old dogs new tricks."
• Welfare capitalism and its conceits.
• Put on a happy face.
• A. F. of L. Delegates.
• The Crisis
• White sheets in Washington, D.C.
• Scottsboro defense.
• On the road.
• Migrants.
• No laughing matter.
• Anacostia flats and flames.
• "We can take it!"
• The Spirit of ’32.
• "We Do Our Part."
• Inauguration.
• "The Wagner Bill is behind you!"
• Evicted.
• "Hello, Mama. We're makin' history."
• The Corn Parade.
• Pocahontas Rescuing Captain John Smith.
• The Fields family, Hale County, Alabama, Summer 1936.
• Ran off.
• "A Bold Stroke for Freedom."
• Hiram Revels
• "Tramps' Terror."
• "A Regular Row in the Backwoods."
• From dawn to dusk.
• "Ration Day."
• Penny pictures.
• The American Woman’s Home.
• "Job Visited by a Master Tailor from Broadway."
• Shoemakers in a "ten-footer" shop.
• "Starting for Lowell."
• The latest model.
• Sunshine and shadow.
• Freeze.
• "Dumping Ground at the Foot of Beach Street."
• "A German Beer Garden on Sunday Evening."
• "A Black Joke."
• "The Voting-Place."
• "The Amazonian Convention."
• "Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?"
• Escape.
• The Amistad Rebellion.
• Slaves for sale.
• "Police conveying Sims to the vessel."
• Freedom or death.
• Unveiled.
• "Bell-Time."
• "The Great Meeting of Foreigners in the Park."
• William Walker's "Filibusters" relax after the Battle of Granada.
• "Negro Dogs."
• Secessionist spectators.
• "The stampede from Bull Run--From a sketch by Our Special Artist."
• Caught in the middle.
• Diplomacy.
• "Writing the Emancipation Proclamation."
• "Cavalry charge at Fairfax court house, May 31, 1861."
• "A harvest of death, Gettysburg, July 1863."
• "Sowing and reaping."
• "Contrabands accompanying the line of Sherman's march through Georgia."
• "Jefferson Davis as an unprotected female!"
• Wedding.
• Reading, ‘riting, and role models.
• The Massacre at New Orleans.
• "Dedicated to the men of the South who suffered exile, imprisonment and death for the daring service they rendered our country as citizens of the Invisible Empire."
• "Colored Rule in the Reconstructed (?) State."
• "The American Frankenstein."
• "Serenading a ‘blackleg’ on his return from work."
• "Panic, as a health officer, sweeping the garbage out of Wall Street."
• "The red flag in New York--Riotous communist workingmen driven from Tompkins Square by the mounted police, Tuesday, January 13th, 1874."
• The Molly Maguires.
• "Waiting for the Reduction of the Army."
• In the Richmond Slave Market
• Witchcraft.
• "The Colonies Reduced."
• "Caught in the Shafting."
• Boycott Fever
• "Photographing Criminals."
• "An Awful Battle at Homestead, Pa."
• "Chicago under the mob."
• Mug shot.
• The science of repetition.
• "Come, brothers, you have grown so big you cannot afford to quarrel."
• Holocaust or no holocaust, a woman's place is in . . .
• Photo-op.
• Sweatshop.
• A warning.
• Pornography Hearings.
• "The street of the gamblers (by day)."
• "The modern news stand and its results."
• "The workingman between two fires."
• "Picturesque America."
• Gibson girls.
• Mr. Block.
• "People we can get along without."
• "The shame of America."
• Stiff upper lip.
• "Interviewed on unemployment."
• "The ideal picket."
• Depicting the enemy.
• "An American soldier of the Antitank Co., 34th Regiment who was killed by mortar fire."
• "True towel tales . . . as told to us by a soldier."
• To buy is patriotic.
• After work.
• "How to tell a Chinese from a 'Jap.'"
• Welcome back.
• "[T]ests have shown . . . that our three average men are equal."
• "Identify them by their garb."
• Believe it or not
• Strange cargo.
• "A society of patriotic ladies."
• The Bloody Massacre
• The Boston Massacre, ca. 1868.
• "The Bostonians paying the excise-man, or tarring and feathering."
• "Five generations on Smith's plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina."
• A map of servitude.
• "The old plantation home."
• "Family amalgamation among the man-stealers."
• The Nat Turner rebellion.
• Actions speak louder than words.
• "The arraignment."
• What's My Crime
• Interview with Michele Forman
• Interview with David Silberberg
• Making Sense of Numbers
• How A Battle Is Sketched
• Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
• Analyzing Political Cartoons
• Analyzing Blues Songs
• Analyzing Photographs
• Disability History Museum
• Analyzing Letters
• The History of Jim Crow
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Utah
• Making Sense of Letters and Diaries
• Who's the Queen?
• Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869
• History of Feminist Movements in the U.S.
• Making Sense of Advertisements
• "It Was Vital Not to Lose Vietnam by Force to Communism": Leslie Gelb Analyzes the Roots of U.S. Involvement in Vietnam
• "The Right to Housing Is a Civil Right Due Without Discrimination": Racial Bias in Public and Private Housing
• "A Time Bomb Inside of You": Social Service Organizations Advocate an Improved Federal Response to AIDS
• "This Is Not a Gay Issue. This Is a Human Issue": Early AIDS Patients Recount Their Experiences with the Disease
• "AIDS Is an Illness of People of Color": Health Service Organizations Advocate Increased Federal Funding to Prevent AIDS in Minority Communities
• Analyzing Abolitionist Speeches
• Analyzing a Melville Story
• "Self Determination of Free Peoples": Founding Documents of the American Indian Movement (AIM)
• "I Am Entitled to Counsel of My Choice": Radical Attorney Robert Treuhaft Challenges HUAC and "McCarthyism"
• "The Process of Coming Back into the World": An American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) Activist Advocates Cultural and Political Unification
• "Sometime Soon . . . the Free Nations Must Make Their Choice": A Foreign Correspondent Analyzes U.S. Cold War Failures
• "Achieving an Atmosphere of Mutual Trust and Confidence": Henry A. Wallace Offers an Alternative to Cold War Containment
• "The Ruins of Their Postwar Dream Homes": Housing Reform Advocates Testify before Congress
• "A Decent Home . . . for Every American Family": Postwar Housing Shortage Victims Testify before Congress
• "The First Freedom Ride:" Bayard Rustin On His Work With CORE
• "How Many Thousands?" Bruce Priebe on AIDS Activism
• "It Was Like A Weed:" Carl Oglesby on The 1960s Student Movement
• "This Is Not What It Sounds Like On TV:" Carol Mirman on the 1970 Kent State Shootings
• "It Was All Men Talking:" Cathy Wilkerson on 1960s Campus Organizing
• "Let's Have a Meeting:" Cathy Wilkerson on SDS Organizing
• "Bigger Than Anything We Understood:" Cathy Wilkerson On The Political Culture of SDS
• The Women's Movement and Women in SDS: Cathy Wilkerson Recalls the Tensions
• "I Climbed Poles, I Ran Cable, I Ran a Jackhammer:" Faith Robinson Describes Harassment On the Job
• "I Didn't Know Anything About Voting:" Fannie Lou Hamer On The Mississippi Voter Registration Campaign
• Union Men Competing Against Each Other: Anne and Al Filardo Describe the Construction Industry in New York City
• "We're Talking About Living Conditions:" Anne and Al Filardo Recall the Struggle for Union Benefits in New York City's Carpenter's Union
• "I Had Visions of Being Rounded Up:" Emira Habiby-Browne Describes the Impact of the September 11, 2001 Attacks on Arab Americans
• "They Have Largely Destroyed The Pride Of Craft:" Helen Zalph Describes Automation in the Printing Industry
• Hollis Watkins Describes Police Intimidation in the Voter Registration Campaign
• "They Teamed Up With The Police And The Klan:" Jack O'Dell On Red Baiting in the National Maritime Union
• "You Couldn't Escape the Anti- Communism:" Jack O'Dell Recalls Red-Baiting in the Civil Rights Movement
• "I Wasn't Interested In Living In The United States If I Wasn't Going To Be In The Movement:" Jack O'Dell on Civil Rights Organizing
• "I Never Met a Black Person Who Was in the Communist Party Because of the Soviet Union:" Jack O'Dell on Fighting Racism in the 1940s
• "It Couldn't Go On Like This:" Jim Vacarella Describes Events Leading Up to the Kent State Shootings
• Jim Vacarella Describes Avoiding the Draft During the Vietnam War
• Leon Sverdlove On the Taft-Hartley Act
• "Over a Hundred Different People Used This Needle:" Michael Yantsos Describes Drug Use and AIDS in Prison
• "Every Two Or Three Weeks Someone Would Die:" Michael Yantsos on Protesting AIDS Treatment in Prison
• An Undocumented Worker Describes the Impact of the World Trade Center Attack
• Using Material Culture to Teach U.S. History
• Cal Noyce Describes Merging Union, Gay, and Lesbian Organizing
• "We Just Stood Up for Our Own Self:" James Justen Recalls Growing Up Gay in the 1950s
• "We Had a Habit of Being Vocal:" James Justen Describes UAW Local Activism
• James Justen Describes Fighting Chrysler for Domestic Partner Benefits
• "The Momentum Was Catching On:" Lillian Roberts Describes Organizing Hospital Workers in New York City
• "I Had to Break the Law to Force Him to Comply:" Lillian Roberts Recalls Organizing State Hospital Workers
• "There Grew Up this Whole Culture and Feeling of Sisterhood:" Shelley Ettinger Recalls Working for the Ann Arbor Bus Company
• "All These Mean Dykes Standing Around:"Shelley Ettinger Describes the Lesbian and Gay Community of the 1970s
• Bob Hope and American Variety
• Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA: A Documentary History
• Our Documents
• Jacob Lawrence Exploring Stories
• American Transcendentalism Web
• Interview with Charles Errico
• "Do We Discard Protective Legislation for Women?": Two Labor Union Officials Voice Opposition to the ERA
• "Our Nation Needs the Fully Developed Resources of All Our Citizens": Representative Margaret M. Heckler Argues for the ERA
• "A Sweepstakes Attracts Attention": Corporate Executives Defend Sweepstakes Promotions
• "We Lack a Firm Constitutional Basis for Equal Rights on the Basis of Gender": Mary Frances Berry Argues for the ERA
• "The Cycle of Poverty": Mexican-American Migrant Farmworkers Testify before Congress
• "All Our Problems Stem from the Same Sex Based Myths": Gloria Steinem Delineates American Gender Myths during ERA Hearings
• "No Other Work Available for Me and My People": A Comanche Indian Migrant Farmworker Testifies before Congress
• "Continued Employment after the War?": The Women's Bureau Studies Postwar Plans of Women Workers
• "An Amendment That Requires Both Sexes to Be Treated Equally": A Men's Rights Activist Voices Support for the ERA
• Colonial Williamsburg
• "The White Man's Law": African-American Migrant Workers Tell Congress Their Version of a Strike
• "In the Shadow of Society": Migrant Workers and Unionists Urge Congress to Enact Effective Federal Farm Labor Regulations
• "Working for My Benefits:" Brenda Steward Describes the Work Experience Program (WEP) in New York City
• "I Would Like to See Them Outlawed": Citizens Complain to Congress about Sweepstakes Promotions
• "We Want Real Jobs:" Sandra White and Brenda Steward on the Work Experience Program in New York City
• "Labor Has To Be International:" David Abdulah Describes Workers Strategies for Organizing Transnational Corporations
• "We No Longer Control Our Resources": Donna Koons Kingsley Describes the Struggle of Trinidad's Oilfield Workers
• "It's Our Sons and Daughters:" Voices of the New York City Labor Movement In Opposition to the Gulf War
• James Haughton on Racism in the House of Labor
• "The Workers, Once Again, Seem to Have Fallen by the Wayside:" The Impact of September 11th on Airline Workers
• Lorraine Thiebaud on Safety Issues for Healthcare Workers in the Age of AIDS
• "And This Happened in Los Angeles:" Malcolm X Describes Police Brutality Against Members of the Nation of Islam
• "Human Rights are Women's Rights and Workers' Rights are Women's Rights:" May Chen on the United Nations Fourth Conference on Women
• Nikos Valence on Organizing Against the North American Free Trade Agreement
• "Music Can Make You Feel Like You're Not Quite So Helpless:" Pete Seeger on People's Music
• "There's Been No Real Creative Response:" Ted Houghton on Homelessness in New York City
• “Not Protective but . . . Restrictive”: ERA Advocates Oppose Protective Legislation for Women
• Analyzing a Colonial Newspaper
• Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
• First World War: The War to End All Wars
• Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933
• “Serious Questions of Fairness, Ethics, and Legality”: Congress Investigates Sweepstakes Promotions
• Life Interrupted: Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas
• Forests, Fields, and the Falls
• National Postal Museum
• "The Fifteenth Amendment Illustrated"
• Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
• Interview with Maurice Butler
• Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963
• Making Sense of American Popular Song
• Making Sense of Documentary Photography
• The Detroit Publishing Company: Photographer to the World
• Federal Township Plats of Illinois, 1804-1891
• Civil Rights Oral History Interviews: Spokane, Washington
• Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History
• The Crisis of the Union
• Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People
• Chinese in California, 1850-1925
• Conservation and Environmental Maps
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
• Berkeley Digital Map Collection
• National Museum of American History, Behring Center
• Picturing Modern America
• Flint Sit-Down Strike
• Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Images of Native Americans
• Across the Generations: Exploring U.S. History through Family Papers
• Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers
• Nineteenth-Century American Children and What They Read
• National Security Archive
• Territorial Kansas Online
• The Presidential Elections
• Drawing the Western Frontier: The James E. Taylor Album
• Freedom Bound: The Underground Railroad in Lycoming County, PA
• Mission to Arizona, 1916–1940: Father Augustine Schwarz, O.F.M.
• Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History
• Brown v. Board of Education
• The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
• Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
• Maine Memory Network
• What Exit? New Jersey and Its Turnpike
• The Vietnam Project
• Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
• American Memory Learning Page
• The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War
• The New Georgia Encyclopedia
• Military Campaign Maps
• Women Working, 1800-1930
• Interview with Doris M. Meadows
• Voices of Civil Rights
• The Duluth Lynchings Online Resource: Historical Documents Relating to the Tragic Events of June 15, 1920
• Race: The Power of an Illusion
• Testing History?
• Archive of Popular American Music
• Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive
• Presidential Recordings Program
• “Compare the Ship that bore them hither with Noah's Ark: Francis Daniel Pastorius Describes his impressions of Pennsylvania, 1683
• “The Air is Sweet and Clear, the Heavens Serene, like the South Parts of France”: William Penn Advertises for Colonists for Pennsylvania, 1683.
• We are Told that the Americans have 13 Councils Compos'd of Chiefs and Warriors: The Chickasaws Send a Message of Conciliation to Congress, 1783
• Children in Urban America: A Digital Archive
• Freedom Now! An Archival Project of Tougaloo College and Brown University
• Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800)
• California Labor History
• Interview with Nancy A. Hewitt
• Black Past: An Online Reference Guide to African American History
• Jews in America: Our Story
• Landmark Supreme Court Cases
• Walt Whitman Archive
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
• Lakota Winter Counts
• Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition
• Encyclopedia of Chicago
• Virtual Museum & Archive of the SEC and Securities History
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
• Illinois During the Gilded Age
• Invincible Cities
• Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution
• Poetic Waves: Angel Island
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Georgia Towns and Cities, 1884-1922
• Dolley Madison Project
• "You are Like Women, Bare and Open, without any Fortifications": Hendrick Criticizes the British for Inaction at the Albany Congress, 1754
• Adoption History Project
• Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars
• Travel, Tourism, and Urban Growth in Greater Miami: A Digital Archive
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial Times to 1950
• Taking the Wheel: Manufacturers' Catalogs from the First Decade of American Automobiles
• "The Disturbances in America give great trouble to all our Nations": Mohawk Joseph Brant Comes to London to See the King, 1776
• American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900
• American State Papers, 1789-1838
• Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project
• Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations
• Northern Visions of Race, Region and Reform in the Press and Letters of Freedmen and Freedmen's Teachers in the Civil War Era
• Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
• "I A Socialist Trust You": Americans Support FDR's Legislative Agenda
• "I Will Not Promise the Moon": Alf Landon Opposes the Social Security Act, 1936
• Unified Vision: The Architecture and Design of the Prairie School
• Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line
• Dolley Madison Digital Edition
• Twentieth-Century Girls: Coming of Age in the Twentieth Century, Stories from Minnesota and Beyond
• Liberian Letters
• Historical Thinking Matters
• 19th-Century Schoolbooks
• Digital Durham
• National Constitution Center: Explore the Constitution
• Interview with Allyson M. Poska
• Virginia Schools in the Great Depression
• Coming of the American Revolution, 1764-1776
• Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930
• Calisphere
• Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970
• Shadows at Dawn
• Linking to Our Past: Documenting the African American Experience in Virginia
• Schoolchildren at Minidoka incarceration camp, Idaho, 1940s
• May K. Sasaki Describes the Minidoka, Idaho, Incarceration Camp
• Bob Fuchigami Describes Conditions at the Merced Assembly Center, California
• Bob Fuchigami Remembers the Makeshift School at the Amache, Colorado, Incarceration Camp
• Norman I. Hirose Remembers Entertainment at the Topaz, Utah, Incarceration Camp
• Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Describes Preparing for 'Evacuation' To an Incarceration Camp
• Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Recalls Caring for her Baby in the Manzanar Incarceration Camp
• Mits Koshiyama Recalls Japanese American Resistance to Incarceration
• Kenge Kobayashi Recalls the Loyalty Questionnaires and Conditions at Tule Lake Segregation Center
• Mako Nakagawa Recalls the Hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, 1981
• Masao Takahashi Describes Incarceration at the Missoula, Montana, Department of Justice Detention Center
• "Jap Trap," World War II Propaganda Poster
• Tosh Yasutake and Mitsuye May Yamada Discuss Tosh's Decision to Join U.S. Army and Visiting Their Father at a U.S. Department of Justice Incarceration Camp
• Kay Matsuoka Describes the Journey to Gila River, Arizona, Incarceration Camp
• Politics of a Massacre: Discovering Wilmington 1898
• Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education
• Brown@50: Fulfilling the Promise
• Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846–1869
• Oral History Online
• Civil War Washington
• Clio: Visualizing History
• America's Historical Newspapers
• Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930
• Henry Hudson 400: Celebrating the History of Hudson, Amsterdam, and New York
• Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whaleship
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000: Scholar's Edition
• Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800
• Puerto Rico Encyclopedia/Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico
• The Object of History
• Wyandot Nation of Kansas
• Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the American City
• New York Philharmonic: Digital Archives
• National Jukebox: Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress
• H.S.I.: Historical Scene Investigation
• The Salem Witchcraft Site