This teaching guide includes a structured guide to explaining the case to students, a classroom exercise on the value of tolerating hateful speech, and a classroom exercise to think about the harms of hateful speech.
This guide focuses on the history of free speech in one crucial year (1919), exploring how one influential Supreme Court justice changed his mind about the value of antiwar speech and in the process wrote opinions that have shaped our attitudes to free speech ever since. It provides students an opportunity to see the First Amendment evolve at a crucial hinge in its history, and it also provides them an opportunity to think about how far the rights to free speech should extend during wartime.
This guide traces the history of ideological visa denial to explore the intersection between immigration law and the right to free speech. It includes: 1) An overview of the history of visa denial in early 20th century, which allows students to assess historical fears of radical immigrants through the close reading of a political cartoon. 2) A discussion of the denial of visas to communists and alleged radicals in the Cold War, through a classroom exercise and discussion of an excerpted newspaper article. 3) An assessment of the role of the First Amendment in challenging visa restrictions through a close reading of a Supreme Court decision in 1972.
This guide consists of curated primary and secondary sources to help students connect environmental history to broader themes in twentieth century US history.
Students learn about the sixteenth president’s relationship with Jewish Americans and his policy of religious tolerance.
A series of five primary source based learning modules that encourage high school students to explore American history through the stories found in Alexandria National Cemetery.
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights inspired many other important documents in U.S. history. This Constitution Day, trace its influence through primary sources.
Historian Tona Hangen takes a look at Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s three-part documentary on Prohibition.
Students are often disconnected from the past. Why not immerse them in historic study by building off things they already know?
Discover how the concept of a “Manifest Destiny” shaped American perceptions prior to and throughout the 19th century.
View testimonies on the Holocaust, create videos, and learn the importance of ethical editing.
Get out of the political arena and teach your students about the emergency response and human issues that resulted from 9/11.
Ever wondered about the wartime experiences of Latinos and Latinas? VOCES seeks to help remedy the gap in U.S. popular historical narrative.
Unearth an important part of U.S. military history—the conscientious decision not to fight.
If you’re searching for 9/11 materials, this website offers easy access to materials across the Library of Congress’s collections.
Service-learning and history don’t have to be exclusive. Consider the opportunities.
Making labor history access less of a chore.
The U.S. was formed on ideals, but how do these ideals manifest in reality? Are they ever at odds?
Humanitarian law and history are hardly mutually exclusive.
Connect with your ELL students with this bilingual Puerto Rico Encyclopedia!
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, taking time to define its context and its effects.
What coverage did websites give the 9/11 attacks?
Access children’s pictures and Italian oral histories regarding 9/11, among other sources.
What does our choice of memorial design say about the U.S. today?
Looking for resources on the Constitution? What better place to look than a center dedicated to its legacy?
Did industrialization result in more women working outside the home or in more women in domestic spheres only?
Take a variety of perspectives into account before moving past the first Thanksgiving.
Games can be more than mindless fluff. When content-rich, they can engage your students in learning during play.
This collection of short videos recognizes the civil rights movement as ongoing struggle.
What does historical “greatness” mean, anyway?
Looking for a little professional development? Miss your college classes? Try Yale’s.
Find a wide variety of classroom resources focused on social history, from classroom activities to primary sources.
Peruse an extensive collection of pamphlets related to African-American life leading up to, during, and following the Civil War.
Meet the American men and women who traveled the South in the name of black/white equality.
Drill students on the constitutional amendments with this engaging game.
Understanding fair use and public domain are key to navigating through the labyrinth of copyright law.
Americans of the 18th century took a much dimmer view of the institution of a professional army than current views of the U.S. military.
Frederick Douglass approached the abolition of slavery from within the confines of the Constitution.
Not technically a military force, the “Regiment” proved integral to the success of the American Revolution.
Most African Americans (free or slaves) never joined the ranks of the Confederacy. Are there cases where individuals did?
The agitation among women’s rights activists over the language of the 14th Amendment.
Use this essay on Jewish immigration to flesh out a unit on the Civil War or immigration.
Allow students to explore historical events through multiple perspectives with this lesson.
George Washington’s military career and reputation were not pure successes. His military losses caused some to question his ability to lead a nation.
Common misconceptions of the classification of civilization are debunked.
How political cartoons illustrate international events and the artists beliefs.
Segregation and equality in America was a case of double standards.
The Constitution states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
Everyone knows what “American Revolution” means. But can you identify these other labels used in naming colonial history?
It was reasoned that no colonists could fear an act that made them drink cheaper tea.
Many believed the Civil War would be a short, bloodless battle. The reality of the drawn out combat led many soldiers in the North and South to desert the military to return home to farm and family.
Part of a series of laws that displaced Native Americans from land allotted to them through treaties with the U.S. government.
Historians studying the hidden spirits of religion in America
Looking for a creative way to teach the American Revolution to struggling readers? Check this out!
Poking fun and puncturing pomposity—how can you interpret political cartoons?
For Constitution Day, DC teacher Amy Trenkle’s 8th-grade class carved out their thoughts on the First Amendment.
Engage your students in preserving local history! Use this teacher’s successful service learning activity to guide you.
Paring down a larger idea to answer one specific question.
In an attempt to salvage a failed Confederate agenda, John Wilkes Booth swore to destroy President Abraham Lincoln’s policy of extending civil liberties to African Americans.
What does the Constitution mean to you? Match each quote to the historical figure whose view of the Constitution it reveals.
Was the antebellum period the height of reform movements in U.S. history?
Historians argue over whether the Founding Fathers’ knowledge of Native American forms of confederation influenced their early plans for the government of the United States.
Their differing philosophies of government set the stage for the permanent growth of political factions.
Did you know the Quakers were pre-Revolution abolitionists?…
Analyzing a source requires context for a more complete understanding.
Relive the dream of the women’s vote through roleplay or interfacing with primary documents.
Looking for the Red in the Red, White, and Blue?
Creating political blowback in the Middle East
Flinging the first American flag to the breeze.
T Roosevelt: “Let us pay with our bodies for our souls’ desire.”
Basic information and several images of 41 books once in Thomas Jefferson’s library.
This presidential library presents sources from the 35th President’s life and times.
Design embodies both artistic ingenuity and responses to everyday problems.
Teach your students to learn, care, and think internationally.
Explore world and U.S. history simultaneously through universal development issues.
Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah Glaser looks at a letter from Jefferson requesting funding for the Corps of Discovery.
A variety of resources focused on the life and times of infamous abolitionist John Brown.
Explore radical activism and 1960s culture through the trial of the Chicago Seven.
Learn about labor history through the infamous Bisbee Deportation.
An extensive collection of primary resources concerning renowned composer Leonard Bernstein.
The largest collection of original Jefferson documents in the world. Really, we’re serious.
A collection of American and European literary classics, made available free of charge.
Learn about American material culture and its relation to the nation’s religious history.
The companion site to a PBS documentary, this website is a useful resource for scholars of the American Revolution.
A useful gateway site for materials on Carrie Chapman Catt and the women’s suffrage movement.
A comprehensive history of religion and major religious events within the United States.
A collection of resources pertaining to the Westinghouse Works company, including films and articles.
This extensive database contains influential documents and literature spanning from 500BC to the 1800s.
Explore the subject of psychology through this full-text archive of classic works in the field.
Travel the Underground Railroad with this interactive website.
An oral history of 1968, as told by a variety of Rhode Island residents, focusing on Civil Rights and Vietnam.
Listen to past episodes of Bryan LeBeau’s weekly radio program, entitled “Talking History.”
A comprehensive collection of primary source materials which cover the infamous Harper’s Ferry raid.
A collection of primary source material for teaching women’s history and mid-19th century culture.
Compare early women’s rights campaigns to the rhetoric of the American Revolution.
Looking for a one-stop spot for all your quick 1639-1800 research needs?
An impressive array of tracts (and more) brought together for your convenience.
From racism to civil rights movement music, listen to the memories of these eight individuals.
Explore World War II’s color film footage.
Discover the men, ideas, and process behind discovering that mosquitoes transfer yellow fever.
A hodge podge of history: England, Missouri, and the greater U.S.
How did World War I effect the lives of the everyday North Carolinian?
What exactly is freedom, and who possesses it?
Frame your lessons on the Great Migration with the life and works of Jacob Lawrence.
Communist Russia. Communist China. Communist Washington?
Introduce yourself to the history of science, or learn to make your own history website.
Read a selection of the world’s greatest speeches by prominent African American figures.
Compare perspectives on educational desegregation. How did it affect the community?
Read up on the NRO, NSA, and the use of satellite imaging for intelligence collection.
How did World War I change soldiers’ attitudes, religious beliefs, and employment prospects?
Examine the impact of Robert F. Kennedy’s anti-apartheid trip to South Africa.
Find out what people thought of everything from ablation to vinegar in 1911.
Explore the history of education within the U.S, through writings and images.
What can you learn from the Lansdowne portrait of George Washington?
What did Thomas Jefferson read?
What role has art had in the depiction and reality of U.S. labor?
Is the Declaration of Independence the same document when in a foreign language?
Look to the past to consider the prospects of democracy in the U.S.
Explore primary documents concerning the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
Did you know that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s family was also involved in abolitionism?
Check out the music scene, communes, and protests of the 1960s.
Explore women’s political history and activism from the 1960s onward.
Read the correspondence of lesser known founding father John Jay.
Compare global statistics on topics from infant mortality to literacy.
Gain inspiration for new ways to approach political history.
Do you read German? Not to worry. Select documents are available in English.
What were people reading around the time of the Civil War?
Explore Florida state, regional, and local history.
Brush up on your understanding of international relations with these interviews.
Immerse yourself in early U.S. history with this scholarly journal.
Hear the conviction and charisma of seven renowned turn-of-the-century speakers.
Experience Caucasian, middle-class Northeastern life through the collections of four families.
More than 50 virtual exhibits ranging from Julia Child to West Point.
Take a peek at Seattle protest history through the WTO Ministerial Week.
How did the Protestant Church become central to Southern African American communities?
Observe statistical trends in U.S. beliefs and demographics from free speech to zodiac signs.
What does the flag mean in the terms of forging a cohesive U.S. identity?
Unsure how to teach presidential history in an engaging manner? Try these activities and lessons.
Was Japanese American internment constitutional? Explore the Japanese American experience.
Explore the thoughts of Samuel F. Morse, artist and father of the electromagnetic telegraph.
Use modern political cartoons to introduce analysis of recent events.
Make this your first stop for topics related to Washington state history!
How many female lawyers can you think of in U.S. history?
Examine the events which led to and the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education.
Explore Brown v. Board of Education through interactive activities and personal recollections.
How has the birth control pill altered sexuality and feminine gender expectations?
Jonathan Edwards was the grandfather of Aaron Burr, and entrenched in the Great Awakening movement.
What did women think of their work at home, in the arts, and in business?
Try lesson plans based on the Library of Congress’ American Memory collections.
Meet international anarchist and women’s rights activist Emma Goldman.
How has photography altered our perception of and the actuality of reality?
Access the human stories of the civil rights movement.
History lessons on the founding documents invariably include the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Learn about the Hard Hat Riots of New York with this innovative website.
Explore the clash of ideas and ideologies in early 20th century America.
Learn about the history of the National Archives as well as how to start your own archives.
Learn about the history of the United States up to 1815 with this website dedicated exclusively to early American history.
A collection of Soviet archival documents which take visitors inside the highest levels of the Soviet Government.
Everything you never knew you wanted to know about Alexis de Tocqueville’s trip through the United States. You’re welcome!
A collection of special documents and artifacts held within the Library of Congress.
Learn about the First National Women’s Rights Convention and the greater women’s rights movement.
View fantastic photography throughout the ages in over 15 exhibits.
Follow the emancipation process through the eyes of its participants.
View photographs, cartoons, and campaign items from the women’s suffrage movement.
Learn about race in American sports history through the life of Jackie Robinson.
Use the links on this website to explore political thought from the ancient past to the present day.
Learn about the women’s rights movement through the secondary sources offered by this website.
Read the memoirs and letters of three 19th-century African American women on this website.
Explore over 50 documents which chronicle the history of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
Learn about Jefferson’s political views through this collection of quotations from his writings.
Learn about the Vietnam anti-war movement through this website.
Learn about Hiroshima and the history of nuclear warfare and non-proliferation through this website.
Visit this website for a firsthand view into the horror of the holocaust.
Use this extensive resource as a starting point for all inquiries into homosexual and transgender history.
Explore the early history of America with reproductions of important documents and newspapers.
View documents relating to the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.
Explore documents that helped to shape the history of our nation.
Use New Jersey during the American Revolution as a national microcosm.
Explore campus protest ephemera and the youth movements of the 1960s and 70s.
Browse official publications from the 1933-1934 World’s Fair.
Explore slavery in America from nine thematic perspectives.
Hear 12 renowned speeches by African Americans, including Marcus Garvey’s only known recording.
What role did runaway slaves and free African Americans play in the Second Seminole War?
You probably know about John Adam’s political career, but what of the Adams’ domestic life?
An extensive glimpse into slave life and the history of slavery in the United States.
Immerse yourself in the historical struggle for the African American vote in Mississippi.
Get to know Benjamin Franklin through his own writings, cartoons, and letters.
Ever wonder what lunar surface crew members and mission control said to each other?
Access more than 500 webcasts from the Library of Congress.
Read the letters of Dolley Madison while learning about her life—from childhood to widowhood.
When teaching about Helen Keller, why leave out her friend and educator Anne Sullivan Macy?
Have a question about New York City or state history? More than 750 articles available.
Read FBI files on and watch interviews about Malcolm X, human and African American rights activist.
View streaming videos on American folk culture from fox hunting to Zydeco.
What roles have Jewish women played in the Second Wave of feminism?
E=mc2. What does it mean? How has it changed society? What was Einstein’s life like?
Familiarize yourself with New Jersey history using images, maps, and official documents.
What did college students think about their lives and larger issues in the 19th-century?
Listen to, read, and sing sources from the Gilded Age canvassing women, religion, and more.
See the suffragettes who gave over 50% of U.S. citizens the right to vote.
Primary documents, background information, and lesson plans for Wisconsin history.
What can the music of World War I tell us about its era?
Get to know the life, mind, works, and criticisms of poet Walt Whitman.
Peruse articles, images, and advertisements drawn from 14 Missouri newspapers, 1835 through 1988.
Follow architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s career with these summaries and images.
Geared toward K-12 education, this site presents antebellum life in Tennessee through letters and images.
Do you think armed resistance is a justifiable reaction to racism? Explore Rob William’s motives.
Who exactly were the Black Panthers? Explore the history and memories of the Seattle chapter.
Learn about Dickinson’s family through their own writings and wider critical response to her poetry.
What was life like for freed slaves returned to Africa? Read letters to former owners.
What can oral histories tell us about girlhood, adolescence, and more in the United States?
Read Dolley Madison’s personal correspondence from her youth through her widowhood.
Explore the assassination of President McKinley and the social context thereof.
What were common presidential campaign strategies between 1840 and 1860?
Review litigation studies ranging from mental health facilities and jail conditions to equal employment.
Uncover novels, readers, hymnals, almanacs, diaries, maps, treaties, and more from between 1801 and 1819.
Access Congressional documents from the first 25 Congresses.
Can you imagine starting your life over in the U.S. following the Holocaust?
Explore Lincoln’s presidency; and access related classroom resources, including lesson plans.
Read the personal correspondence and diaries of women such as Phyllis Wheatley and Margaret Fuller.
What was Atlanta’s role in the larger African American civil rights movement 1940 through 1970?
Explore the history of Maryland, from Edgar Allen Poe to the War of 1812.
Criminal history, the Jazz Age, and the Red Scare all in one legal case. Understand the early 20th century through the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Discover the life of pragmatist and education reform advocate John Dewey (1859-1952).
What better way to explore Johnson’s presidency than through the words of his associates?
Texts throughout U.S. history have featured imagery from the Book of Revelations, including the the documents on this site.
Primary sources document the history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the first U.S. public university.
Looking for ways to use fiction in your elementary history curriculum? Read on for suggestions!
Middle school students interpret history at Harpers Ferry.
Tom C. Clark served as Supreme Court Justice from 1949 to 1967, a time of legal shift and reform. Learn more about cases from these years from his papers.
During the 1840s, Manifest Destiny remained an effusive spirit rather than an agenda for empire.
Sifting through books for college courses about historical inquiry.
Explore the history of America’s most iconic image—the American flag. But remember: lip-syncing is not allowed!
Is it all right to make up stories about real people to teach children about honesty? In the 19th century, some people thought so.
To some extent, the Boston Tea Party was the result of unintended consequences.
This lesson leads students to see how Lincoln’s life in Springfield influenced important national issues.
How did the final version of the Declaration differ from Jefferson’s draft?
Historians have attempted to account for the great admiration that whites had for Tecumseh.
What did Colonial America and Medieval Europe have in common?
What do Presidents Ulysses Grant and Franklin Roosevelt have in common? Both were accused of packing the Supreme Court.
How to identify the author, audience, date, and message of historical posters.
Think the “Join or Die” snake first appeared during the American Revolution? Think again!
Explore the cultural, intellectual, and political trends of the 1950s in a diverse array of primary and secondary sources.
Learn about the volunteers who participated in a 1965 Southern Christian Leadership Conference voter registration effort.
Covering 1945 through the late 1990s, sources from the former Communist bloc provide a different perspective on the Cold War.
From White Fang to short stories and speeches, read more than 40 works by renown author Jack London.
Traces the history of the eugenics movement in the United States.
Pamphlets and documents from 1875 to 1900 highlight African American leaders and organizations.
Digitizing 19th-century American fiction, this site offers close to 3,000 texts by 1,456 authors.
With over 300,000 pages available for full-text searching, this is one of the richest collections of anti-slavery and Civil War materials in the world.
Discover connections between race and place in this archive documenting the effects of Jim Crow on a Virginia town.
Learn more about Emma Goldman, radical and feminist activist, through this collection of primary and secondary sources.
From the Ku Klux Klan to the IWW, examine 129 historical documents from radical organizations.
More than 1,800 primary sources provide a window into the Temperance Movement and Prohibition.
Delve into the complex history of slavery and the law with this collection of primary sources.
180 documents and artifacts interpret 19th-century westward exploration and the concept of Manifest Destiny.
View contemporary coverage of the Civil Rights Movement from two Roanoke, VA television stations.
Primary and secondary sources document the minority struggle for civil rights in Seattle’s history.
Close to 200 photographs document the work of Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA).
A variety of primary sources and background essays explore the 1911 fire, a hallmark tragedy of the industrial age.
Presents the life and work of black activist Marcus Garvey, leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
The court proceedings surrounding the Haymarket Affair look at the event that led to the first “Red Scare” in America.
Printed materials preserve the public campaigns of the Anti-Saloon League from 1893 to 1933.
Explore the life and works of one of the most famous revolutionaries—Thomas Paine.
Primary and secondary sources examine the growing divisions in Kansas and the nation prior to the Civil War.
More than 5,500 transcribed newspaper articles related to the Mexican-American War.
Provides more than 1.5 million pages of text in an effort to digitize more than 11,000 volumes and 100,000 19th-century journal articles.
Documents the birth of the conservation movement through published works, manuscripts, images, and motion picture footage.
Follows Jefferson’s life, political participation, and accumulation of scientific geographical knowledge from 1735 to 1804.
Covers Congressional documents from the nation’s founding through early Reconstruction.
Presents texts by and about the major figures of American Transcendentalism.
Approximately 20,000 documents provide a window into President Abraham Lincoln’s life.
Displays, explains, and interprets the Lakota pictorial histories known as winter counts.
Nearly 1,400 documents covering Southern life from the 18th to early 20th centuries.
Trace the history of Africans in America through Reconstruction, with 245 images, maps, and documents.
Examines 19th-century children in America: what they read, what was written about them, and what was written for them.
Provides teaching and reference materials on the women’s rights movement of the past 50 years.
Provides a multimedia introduction to “the greatest strike in American history.”
Offers 45 mini-monographs on U.S. women’s history, each organized around an analytical question concerning a social movement.
Memorializes Roland Marchand with more than 6,100 images, including more than 2,000 advertisements, and 48 lesson plans drawn from his collection.
Presents more than 137,000 photographs of Florida on specific localities from the mid-19th century to the present.
Presents more than 250 computer marketing brochures from 1948 to 1988.
16th-century to present-day maps, focusing on Americana and cartographic treasures.
Preserves the history of the Macintosh through interviews with designers, technical writers, Apple employees, and others.
View 150 cartoons drawn between 1929 and 2000 by Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Herbert Block.
Archives 44 “full-life” interviews with American women journalists.
Offers over 2,500 hours of White House recordings by six American presidents between 1940 and 1973.
Showcases more than 900 Work Projects Administration (WPA) posters produced as part of the New Deal.
More than 350 recently declassified documents reveal previously hidden aspects of Cold War military strategy.
Provides access to facsimiles of 100 declassified documents relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Captures significant events and personalities of the 20th century through 107 audio items, including speeches, addresses, and private telephone conversations.
Presents four guided investigations—on the Spanish-American War, the Scopes Trial, Social Security, and Rosa Parks—designed to teach students to read primary sources and construct historical narratives.
Includes more than 300 U.S. government pamphlets and books on home front issues from World War II.
Explore the experiences of those with disabilities through documents and images dating from the 18th century to the present.
A wonderful collection of chronologies, images, maps, and other materials on the Spanish-American War.
Presents more than 55,000 Chicago Daily News photographs taken in the early 20th century.
Explore this archive of over 110 video interviews on Japanese American incarceration during World War II.
Browse more than 8,000 objects related to Chinese immigrant life in California.
Official documents and articles from periodicals record the history of the Olympics and sport.
Follow the contentious election of 1896 with close to 100 political cartoons related to the presidential campaigns.
An assemblage of more than 80 photographs and postcards of lynchings, from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Peruse this collection of over 900 items relating to Chicago’s Hull House to discover its influence on 20th century urban development.
Selected materials by and about the “birth control pioneer” Margaret Sanger.
A vast database of Thomas Edison’s papers, including correspondence, technical drawings, and clippings about the inventor.
Discover over 200 jazz bands and musicians active from 1895-1929, captured here in countless audio and video files.
Access 59 sound recordings of 1918-1920 speeches by American leaders.
Explore Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin as the American cultural phenomenon it was.
Provides full-text transcriptions and page images of 1815–1865 Sunday school books addressing religious instruction for youth.
Focuses on Mark Twain’s life and career, including creation of his popular image, marketing and promotion of his texts, and live performances.
Scanned images of more than 18,000 pieces of sheet music, including covers, published prior to 1923.
Commemorates the 1871 Great Chicago Fire with an array of primary sources.
40,000 written pages and more than 3,000 illustrations provide accounts of California history from the Gold Rush to the end of the 19th century.
Experience firsthand accounts of Jamestown and colonial history, dating from 1570 through 1720.
Get up close-and-personal with western migrants. Explore personal accounts of westward treks from the perspective of 45 men and four women.
Documents the 1704 raid on Deerfield, MA, by 300 French and their Native American allies.
274 sources focusing on the work of the Continental Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.
Explore California from Japanese American internment or the Free Speech Movement to oral histories.
The Washington Post looks back at the Watergate scandal in this exhibit of primary sources.
Examine segregation and desegregation through summaries and the court’s opinions for two major cases.
The Holocaust must be remembered. This site will give your students a closer look at the atrocities of this genocide.
Peruse every edition of the “official newspaper” of the U.S. Army fighting forces during World War I.
Contains 10,000 pages and images on Everglades reclamation efforts and the history of south Florida.
150 oral history interviews and 16 collections of documents address the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.
Ansel Adams’s photographs preserve life at the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II.
Take a closer look at the Civil War with this extensive database that offers a comparison of two Shenandoah Valley counties—Augusta County, VA and Franklin County, PA.
Peruse more than 1,700 texts written by or to Thomas Jefferson—from correspondence to books and papers.
Examine the verbatim transcripts of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials.
Provides transcriptions and images of more than 4,000 newspaper advertisements for runaway slaves and indentured servants between 1736 and 1803.
Presents articles from 18th- and 19th-century newspapers, magazines, and books, with a focus on the Mid-Atlantic region.
More than 400 speeches by women—politicians, scientists, and celebrities.
A panel of judges enlisted by the New York World’s Fair Corporation looked to Texas to find this family.