African Americans

Culture and the Arts

Ecology

Economics

Exploration and Settlement

The Family

Foreign Relations and Policy

Immigrants and Immigration

Labor and Work

Military

Native Americans

Politics

Reform and Activism

Religion

Rural and Farm Life

Science and Technology

Urban Growth and Life

Women and Gender Issues


 

African Americans (back to top)

Laws Pertaining to Slaves and Servants, Virginia 1629-1672
Description of African Slavery, 1738
James Island Fort, West Coast of Africa, ca. 1738
From Olaudah Equiano's Narrative, ca. 1745-1797
A Poem on Election Day, Author Unknown, Ca. 1760
The Administration of Justice and the Description of the Laws by Thomas Jefferson, 1781
Short Observations on Slavery by Anthony Benezet, 1785
Debates in the Federal Convention, 1787
The Federal Convention, Article VII, Section 4, 1787
A Thanksgiving Sermon, 1808
Portrait of Absalom Jones, 1810
Excerpt from the Cotton Book of G.W. Lovelace, 1817
Tallmadge's Speech to Congress, 1819
Charles Pickney's Speech to Congress, 1820
Taylor Amendment, January 26, 1820
Thomas Amendment, February 17, 1820
John Quincy Adams and John Calhoun discuss the Compromise, 1820
"Bostonians Break up Abolition Meetings," n.d.
The First African American Newspaper Appears, 1827
Peter Osborne Speaks to a Crowd Celebrating American Independence, 5 July 1832
African Americans Convene for Their Second National Convention, 1832
New Orleans Slave Auction, 1841
A Fugitive Slave Writes to His Former Master, 1844
Slave Life on a Cotton Plantation, 1845
David Wilmot Argues For a Free California, 1847
The North Star on Seneca Falls, 1848
Frances Gage Remembers Sojourner Truth Appearing At the Akron Convention, 1851
Judgment in the Dred Scott Case, 1857
The Dred Scott Decision, 1857
Northern Outrage over Scott v. Sandford, 1857
Democratic Paper Endorses the Scott Decision, 1857
"Citizenship," 1857
"Lincoln's 150,000 Negro Soldiers," 1863
The Fate of Black Troops in Confederate Prisons, 1863
Martin Delaney, Major, 104th U.S.C.T.
Illustrations of Black Soldiers in Northern Journals, 1863-1865
The Capture of Fort Pillow, 1864
Reactions to Emancipation in Virginia, 1865
"What Shall Become of the Freedmen?" 1865
Thaddeus Stevens in Support of Black Suffrage, 1867
Appealing to Racism in Arguing for Female Suffrage, 1867
Sixty-Five Members of the South Carolina Legislature, 1868-1872
Republican Support for Black Suffrage, 1869
A Democratic View of the 15th Amendment Proposition, 1869
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Black Suffrage, 1869
E.L. Godkin Asesses Reconstruction, 1871
Klan Violence in Georgia, 1871
Race Relations in Georgia, ca. 1871
Description of the South Carolina Legislature by a "Liberal Republican," 1871
Description of Sharecropping Tenants on a Georgia Plantation, 1881
Colored Alliance Demands, 1889
Mississippi Constitution of 1890
Black Farmers Strike, 1891
Tom Watson and Anthony Wilson at Sparta, Georgia, 1892
The Lynching of Bob Harper, 1892
Banner of the People's Party Paper, December 9, 1892
Lynching of Henry Smith, 1893
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
A Summary of Lynchings in 1897
Disfranchisement Debate in the Virginia Legislature, 1902
W.E.B. DuBois, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903
Richmond African Americans Boycott Streetcars, 1904
"'Jim Crow' Street-Car Law Set to Catch Negroes," 1904
The Niagara Movement's Address to the Country by W.E.B. Du Bois, 1906
Letters of Black Migrants in the Chicago Defender, 1916-1918
"They'll be mighty proud in Dixie of their old black Joe," ca. 1918
Race Riots in Chicago, 1919
Socialist Cartoon and Poem, 1919
Virgil Bates and Family, 1919
The Negro Speaks of Rivers and I Too by Langston Hughes, 1920s
Jazz, 1920s
White Houses by Claude McKay, 1925
"The Klan's Fight for Americanism," 1926
A Veteran Employee in an Eastern Navy Yard Instructs a Machinist Apprentice, 1942
A. Philip Randolph, "Why Should We March?," 1942
G.I. Japyank, 1944
"Strike Against Jackie Spiked," 1947
Traveling with the Dodgers, 1947
Brooklyn Dodgers' infielder Jackie Robinson, 1948
The Decline of the Negro Leagues, 1948
Black Baseball Players, 1950
George E.C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James M. Nabrit, 1954
The Right of Interposition, 1955
Southern Manifesto, 1956
Prince Edward County Protests Integration with Private Institutions, 1959
Sitting-In In Mississippi, 1963
Malcolm X on the March on Washington, 1964
The Voting Rights Act, 1965
Martin Luther King and Economic Justice, 1966
Black Power, 1967
Stokely Carmichael Speaks at Florida A&M University, 1967
The Black Woman and the Women's Movement, 1979
 

Culture and the Arts (back to top)

Oral Tradition of the Origin of the Mide' Religion
Song of the Maiden's Leap
Images of Native Americans by German Illustrator Theodore de Bry, 1588
Depictions of Native American Women and British Tribal Woman, 1588
Benjamin Franklin's Pursuit of Moral Perfection, ca. 1730s
A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America, 1743
Elias Boudimott Proposes a Cherokee Newspaper, 1827
Ralph Waldo Emerson on the American Scholar, 1837
The Nation of the Future, 1839
Now Showing in New York, 1841
"Pray, Maiden, Pray," ca. 1863
The Evils of Fashionable Dress, by J. H. Kellogg, M.D., 1876
"Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1866-model bicycle for two."
"Which? Sunday in the Grog Shop or Museum?" 1885
Imagined Uses of the Telephone, 1885
Colored Alliance Demands, 1889
Modernism in Architecture, 1922
"Dirty Work at the Crossroads," 1923
"The Crowd at the Ball Game" by William Carlos Williams, 1923
The Negro Speaks of Rivers and I Too by Langston Hughes, 1920s
Jazz, 1920s
White Houses by Claude McKay, 1925
WPA Murals, 1930s
WPA Theater Group, 1935
The Music of Woody Guthrie, 1940
Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," Front Cover, 1956
Country Joe and the Fish, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die Rag," 1968
Allen Ginsberg, "Howl," 1956
 

Ecology (back to top)

The Oral Tradition of the Foundation of the Iroquois Confederacy
Theodore Roosevelt on Conservation, 1901
Our Forests and National Parks, by John Muir, 1901
Forest Reserves & National Parks in the Western United States, 1901
Theodore Roosevelt's African Game Trails, 1910
Earth Day, 1970
Endangered Species Act, 1973
Three Mile Island, 1979 (image)
Three Mile Island, 1979
 

Economics (back to top)

England's Title to North America, by Richard Hakluyt, 1584
Plan for a Massachusetts Town, 1636
Powhatan to John Smith, 1608
John Smith Describes the "Starving Time" at Jamestown, 1609-1610
Laws Pertaining to Slaves and Servants, Virginia 1629-1672
Letter from New England by Richard Saltonstall, 1631
Indentured Servitude in Maryland, 1666
Nathaniel Bacon's Declaration of the People, 1676
Description of African Slavery, 1738
The Governor of Massachusetts Bay issues a Proclamation against Rioters, 1765
Instructions of the Town of Braintree to Their Representative, 1765
Declaration of Rights, 1765
From the Diary of John Adams, 1765
Account of Col.George Mercer's Arrival in Virginia, and his Resignation of the Office of Stamp Distributor, 1765
A Patriotic Advertisement, 1765
Excerpt from the Diary of Christiana Leach, of Kingsessing 1765-85.
Articles of Confederation, 1777
John McKinly Writes to his Wife Jenny, 1777
"The Sentiments of an AMERICAN WOMAN," 1780
Excerpt from the Diary of Miss Anna Rawle, 1781
The Administration of Justice and the Description of the Laws by Thomas Jefferson, 1781
Report on Government for Western Territory by Thomas Jefferson, 1784
Short Observations on Slavery by Anthony Benezet, 1785
The Grand Committee on the Subject of the Western Territory, 1786
Letter from James Madison to General Washington, 1787
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787
Constitution of the United States of America, 1787
Debates in the Federal Convention, 1787
The Federal Convention, Article VII, Section 4, 1787
Tully on the Insurrection in the Western Country, 1794
The Cotton Gin, ca. 1800
Excerpt from the Cotton Book of G.W. Lovelace, 1817
Tallmadge's Speech to Congress, 1819
Cotton Boom in Alabama and Mississippi, ca. 1820s
Morality of Manufactures, 1823
Notices and Advertisements from the New York Evening Post, 1824
Advertisements from the New York Evening Post, 1824
"What Shall Become of the Freedmen?" 1865
Reactions to Emancipation in Virginia, 1865
Joining Tracks of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads, 1869
The Credit Mobilier Scandal Recounted, 1873
Grant's Farewell Address to Congress, 1876
Progress and Poverty, 1879
The Railroad Network, 1880
Description of Sharecropping Tenants on a Georgia Plantation, 1881
Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor, 1881
"The Factory System as an Element in Civilization," 1882
August Spies Defends the Eight-Hour Movement, 1886
Advice on Working and Saving, 1887
An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States, 1888
General Executive Board, Knights of Labor, ca. 1888
New York City Tenement Life, 1890
"A Typical East-Side Block," 1890 and 1902
Black Farmers Strike, 1891
Tom Watson and Anthony Wilson at Sparta, Georgia, 1892
Richard Croker on Tammany Hall, 1892
Banner of the People's Party Paper, December 9, 1892
Eugene Debs addresses the American Railway Union, 1894
Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth Against the Commonwealth, 1894
Gold Democrats Demand New Ticket, 1896
Populist Party Platform, 1896
Ray Stannard Baker, "Hull House and the Ward Boss," 1898
Theodore Roosevelt on Trusts, 1901
The Evolution of the Tenement, 1902
The Riverside Tenements in Brooklyn, 1902
"Dens of Death," 1902
W.E.B. DuBois, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903
Lee Chew, "The Biography of a Chinaman," 1903
Portrait of Lee Chew, 1903
The Great American Fraud by Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1905
The Condemned-Meat Industry, 1906
Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
Jane Addams, "First Days at Hull-House," 1910
Tenement Room, 1913
Tenement Street Scene, 1913
Automobile Advertising, 1923
New York Campaign Speech by Herbert Hoover, 1928
Black Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange, 1929
The Crash Worsens, 1929
"Hooverville," New York City, 1930
Family in El Paso, Arkansas, 1931
Hoover Vetoes Muscle Shoals Bill, 1931
Christmas Day Breadlines in New York City, 1931
Social Upheaval in 1931
Special Message to the Congress on the Economic Recovery Program, 1932
The Return of Barter, 1933
Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, 1933
"Get Going," 1933
Letters From the "Forgotten Man" to Mrs. Roosevelt, 1934
John L. Lewis on the NRA, 1934
The GI Bill, 1944
The Six Thousand Houses That Levitt Built, 1948
War on Poverty, 1964
The Economic Opportunity Act, 1964
Gas Fever, 1979
Jimmy Carter's Malaise Speech, 1979
Lester Thurow, "How to Wreck the Economy," 1981
An Interview with President Reagan, 1982
The Failure of the Reagan Revolution, 1986
 

Exploration and Settlement (back to top)

Exploration in the New World, 1492-1542
Detail from the Maguey Plan, depicting a Mexican city, 16th century
Amerigo Vespucci's Exploration of the New World, woodcut, 1506
Montezuma Greets Fernando Cortez, ca. 1520
A Spanish Friar Indicts the Conquistadores for the Massacre of Indians, 1542
Cabeza de Vaca describes the Indians of the Gulf Coast, 1542
Battle and Aftermath at Tenochtitlan, 1568
England's Title to North America, by Richard Hakluyt, 1584
Frontspiece of Thomas Hariot's Brief and True Report... [illustrated by Theodore de Bry], 1588
First Interactions and Mutual Impressions between English Settlers and Indians of North Carolina Coast, 1588
Images of Native Americans by German Illustrator Theodore de Bry, 1588
Depictions of Native American Women and British Tribal Woman, 1588
The Betrayed Maiden, 17th century
Map of Virginia, 1607
The Arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia, 1607
Powhatan to John Smith, 1608
John Smith Describes the "Starving Time" at Jamestown, 1609-1610
Necessary Supplies for the Voyage to Virginia, 1622
Images from John Smith's Generall Historie, 1624
Pocahontas Saves John Smith From John Smith's General Historie, 1624
From John Smith's Generall Historie, 1624
A Modell of Christian Charity, by John Winthrop, 1630
Letter from New England by Richard Saltonstall, 1631
"The forme of a binding servant," 1635
Emigrants to New England from Sandwich, England 1635
Passengers to Virginia, 1635
Plan for a Massachusetts Town, 1636
Account of the Pequot War, 1637
Indentured Servitude in Maryland, 1666
Will of Edward Garfield from Watertown, Massachusetts, 1668
Bacon's Oath of Fidelity, ca. 1676
News from Virginia Since the Death of Nathaniel Bacon, 1677
The State of Virginia, 1676
King's Letter to the Duke of York, 1676
Nathaniel Bacon's Father Petitions the King, 1676
A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America, 1743
The Albany Conference, 1754
Extract of a letter from Will's Creek, July 10, 1755
Proclamation of Jonathan Belcher, 1756
Poems for Soldiers, 1756
Report on Government for Western Territory by Thomas Jefferson, 1784
The Grand Committee on the Subject of the Western Territory, 1786
Mrs. Mary Dewees' Journal from Philadelphia to Kentucky, 1787-1788
Map of the West, ca. 1802
The President to Governor Claiborne, 1804
Excerpt from the Journal of Lewis and Clark, 1805
Redrawing the Nation's Boundaries, 1783-1846
The Removal of American Indians
The Georgia Gold Rush, 1830
David Wilmot Argues For a Free California, 1847
Buffalo Hide Yard in Dodge City, Kansas, 1878
Mormon Emigrants Moving to Utah, ca. 1879
The Railroad Network, 1880
Ebenezer Bryce's Cabin in Utah, ca. 1881
The Frontier Prospector, 1883
The Albuquerque Indian School in 1885
Gardiner Park County, Montana, 1887
Crow Indian Chiefs and Crow Prisoners, 1887
 

The Family (back to top)

Cabeza de Vaca describes the Indians of the Gulf Coast, 1542
The Betrayed Maiden, 17th century
Emigrants to New England from Sandwich, England 1635
Plan for a Massachusetts Town, 1636
Account of the Pequot War, 1637
Indentured Servitude in Maryland, 1666
Will of Edward Garfield from Watertown, Massachusetts, 1668
Excerpt from the Diary of Christiana Leach, of Kingsessing 1765-85.
Mrs. Mary Dewees' Journal from Philadelphia to Kentucky, 1787-1788
Excerpt from the Memoirs of Susan Mansfield Huntington, 1815
Observations on the Real Rights of Women, 1818
The Effects of Intemperancy, 1839
Refugees Fleeing their Homes Near the War Front, 1860s
From the Diary of a Young Northern Woman, 1861-1862
From the Diary of a Young Southern Woman, 1862
"Which? Sunday in the Grog Shop or Museum?" 1885
Children in the Cotton Mills, 1908
Night Scene at Indiana Glass Works, 1908
Votes for Women a Practical Necessity, ca. 1912
Tenement Room, 1913
Tenement Street Scene, 1913
A Brief for the Palmer-Owen Child Labor Bill, 1914
Photographs from the Front, ca. 1918
Virgil Bates and Family, 1919
Family in El Paso, Arkansas, 1931
Letters From the "Forgotten Man" to Mrs. Roosevelt, 1934
Toy Loan Library, 1930s
Women on the Homefront During World War II, 1940s
The GI Bill, 1944
The Six Thousand Houses That Levitt Built, 1948
Levittown, 1948
Polio Hysteria, 1953
The Polio Vaccine, 1955
 

Foreign Relations and Policy (back to top)

Southern Campaigns, 1778-1781
Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1793
An Emetic for aristocrats! Or, a Chapter Respecting Governor Jay, and his Treaty, 1795
"Horatius" to the People of the United States, 1795
George Washington on Foreign Affairs, 1796
President John Adams to Congress, 1799
The President to Governor Claiborne, 1804
The Debate over War in Congress, 1811
James Madison to the Senate and House of Representatives, June 1, 1812
The War of 1812
The Nation of the Future, 1839
The President's War Message, 1846
The Spanish American War, 1898
The New York World reports the battleship Maine explosion, 1898
"Save Me From My Friends!" 1898
The White Man's Burden, 1899
Carl Schurz against American Imperialism, 1899
Roosevelt, Congress, and the Panama Canal, 1911
"Keep 'em going!" Anti-German poster, 1917
"Remember! The Flag of Liberty! Support It!" 1917
Sedition Act, 1918
Eugene V. Deb's Canton Speech, 1918
American Participation on the Western Front, 1918
Against Unrestricted Immigration, 1926
Harry S. Truman on the Bombing of Hiroshima, 1945
The Kennan Telegram, 1946
The Novikov Telegram, 1946
Russian Development of the Atomic Bomb, 1949
Truman Calls for Development of the Hydrogen Bomb, 1950
NSC-68, 1950
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 1951
Eisenhower on Guatemala, 1954
Communist Aggression in Guatemala, 1954
Covert Action in Guatemala, 1954
Communist Penetration into Guatemala, 1957
Call for a March Against the Vietnam War, 1965
Rally Against the Vietnam War at the Pentagon, 1967
Country Joe and the Fish, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die Rag," 1968
The Evacuation of Saigon, 1975
The American Evacuation of Saigon, 1975 (photo)
American Hostages in Iran, 1979
The Evil Empire, 1983
The Strategic Defense Initiative, 1983
Soviet Union-United States Summit in Washington, D.C., 1987
President Reagan and Premier Gorbachev in Red Square, Moscow, 1988
The New World Order, 1989
George Bush on the Persian Gulf War, 1991
 

Immigrants and Immigration (back to top)

Necessary Supplies for the Voyage to Virginia, 1622
Passengers to Virginia, 1635
Emigrants to New England from Sandwich, England 1635
An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States, 1888
Chinese Stereotyping, 1890
Lee Chew, "The Biography of a Chinaman," 1903
Portrait of Lee Chew, 1903
Jane Addams, "First Days at Hull-House," 1910
"Remember! The Flag of Liberty! Support It!" 1917
Sedition Act, 1918
Against Unrestricted Immigration, 1926
"The Klan's Fight for Americanism," 1926
Last Statement of Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 1929
Relocation Order, 1942
Japanese Relocation, c.a. 1943
Korematsu v. United States, 1944
G.I. Japyank, 1944
 

Labor and Work (back to top)

A Spanish Friar Indicts the Conquistadores for the Massacre of Indians, 1542
England's Title to North America, by Richard Hakluyt, 1584
The Betrayed Maiden, 17th century
John Smith Describes the "Starving Time" at Jamestown, 1609-1610
The Mayflower Compact, 1620
Laws Pertaining to Slaves and Servants, Virginia 1629-1672
Letter from New England by Richard Saltonstall, 1631
"The forme of a binding servant," 1635
Passengers to Virginia, 1635
Plan for a Massachusetts Town, 1636
Indentured Servitude in Maryland, 1666
Description of African Slavery, 1738
James Island Fort, West Coast of Africa, ca. 1738
From Olaudah Equiano's Narrative, ca. 1745-1797
The Administration of Justice and the Description of the Laws by Thomas Jefferson, 1781
Short Observations on Slavery by Anthony Benezet, 1785
Debates in the Federal Convention, 1787
David Wilmot Argues For a Free California, 1847
Reactions to Emancipation in Virginia, 1865
"What Shall Become of the Freedmen?" 1865
Progress and Poverty, 1879
Description of Sharecropping Tenants on a Georgia Plantation, 1881
Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor, 1881
"The Factory System as an Element in Civilization," 1882
August Spies Defends the Eight-Hour Movement, 1886
Advice on Working and Saving, 1887
An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States, 1888
General Executive Board, Knights of Labor, ca. 1888
Colored Alliance Demands, 1889
The Condemned-Meat Industry, 1906
Children in the Cotton Mills, 1908
Night Scene at Indiana Glass Works, 1908
A Brief for the Palmer-Owen Child Labor Bill, 1914
"I'm a Bolshevist from the Bottom of My Feet to the Top of My Head," Mother Jones, 1919
Socialist Cartoon and Poem, 1919
"Hooverville," New York City, 1930
Christmas Day Breadlines in New York City, 1931
Social Upheaval in 1931
Family in El Paso, Arkansas, 1931
The Return of Barter, 1933
John L. Lewis on the NRA, 1934
National Labor Relations Act, 1935
WPA Murals, 1930s
WPA Workers, 1930s
"Like Davey Crockett's Coon," 1937
Labor Strikes, New York City, 1937
A Veteran Employee in an Eastern Navy Yard Instructs a Machinist Apprentice, 1942
Women on the Homefront During World War II, 1940s
Women in the Defense Industry, 1941-1942
A. Philip Randolph, "Why Should We March?," 1942
"Woman-Power!", 1943
 

Military (back to top)

A Spanish Friar Indicts the Conquistadores for the Massacre of Indians, 1542
Battle and Aftermath at Tenochtitlan, 1568
Account of the Pequot War, 1637
James Island Fort, West Coast of Africa, ca. 1738
Extract of a letter from Will's Creek, July 10, 1755
Proclamation of Jonathan Belcher, 1756
Poems for Soldiers, 1756
Enlistment Papers, 1761
Excerpt from the Diary of Christiana Leach, of Kingsessing 1765-85
Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1776
The Boston Massacre, 1770
John McKinly Writes to his Wife Jenny, 1777
An Account of the Battle of Princeton, 1777
Excerpt from the Diary of Surgeon Albigence Waldo, of the Connecticut Line, 1777-1778
Southern Campaigns, 1778-1781
An Account of a Naval Engagement, 1778
Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown, 1781
Excerpt from the Diary of Miss Anna Rawle, 1781
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A Proclamation by James Bowdoin, 1786
Washington's Warning to the Insurgents in Pennsylvania, 1794
The Debate over War in Congress, 1811
The War of 1812
The Removal of American Indians
The President's War Message, 1846
The Mexican War, 1846-1848
Ringgold, Ga., Battery at Drill, 1860s
Care for those Wounded at the Front, 1860s
The Advancing Union Army, 1861-1865
President Abraham Lincoln Calls in the Troops, 1861
The Maryland Governor and Commander-in-Chief Orders up the Troop, 1861
New Haven Women Act On Behalf of the Sick and Wounded, 1861
From the Diary of a Young Northern Woman, 1861-1862
Mary Phinney Recalls her Experiences of August 1862
From the Diary of a Young Southern Woman, 1862
Georgia Governor Joseph Brown Addresses the Mechanics, 1862
An Anonymous Poet Satirizes "Exempts," ca. 1862
Members of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, ca. 1862
A Surgeon Participates in the War Effort, 1862
"Lincoln's 150,000 Negro Soldiers," 1863
The Fate of Black Troops in Confederate Prisons, 1863
Martin Delaney, Major, 104th U.S.C.T.
Illustrations of the United States Colored Troops, 1863-1864
News of the Rebel Army Approaching Chambersburg, 1864
The Aftermath of Destruction at a Town Near Washington, D.C., 1864
The Capture of Fort Pillow, 1864
Wounded Men at a Fredericksburg Hospital, May 1864
Joseph Trimble's Oath of Amnesty, 1865
Crow Indian Chiefs and Crow Prisoners, 1887
The Spanish American War, 1898
The New York World reports the battleship Maine explosion, 1898
"Keep 'em going!" Anti-German poster, 1917
Photographs from the Front, ca. 1918
"They'll be mighty proud in Dixie of their old black Joe," ca. 1918
American Participation on the Western Front, 1918
Race Riots in Chicago, 1919
Soldiers-in-Training, 1940s
Women in the Defense Industry, 1941-1942
African American Fighter Pilots, 1941-1943
G.I. Japyank, 1944
Ernie Pyle, "Captain Waskow's Men Say Good-Bye," 1944
The GI Bill, 1944
Japan Surrenders Aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, 1945
Harry S. Truman on the Bombing of Hiroshima, 1945
The View from the Enola Gay, 1945
The Bombing of Nagasaki, 1945
Russian Development of the Atomic Bomb, 1949
Truman Calls for Development of the Hydrogen Bomb, 1950
NSC-68, 1950
Call for a March Against the Vietnam War, 1965
Special Purpose Telegram Blank No. 74/AG, 1966
Rally Against the Vietnam War at the Pentagon, 1967
Country Joe and the Fish, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die Rag," 1968
The Strategic Defense Initiative, 1983
Soviet Union-United States Summit in Washington, D.C., 1987
The War in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991
President Bush Speaks with Top Officials, 1991
George Bush on the Persian Gulf War, 1991
 

Native Americans (back to top)

The Oral Tradition of the Foundation of the Iroquois Confederacy
Oral Tradition of the Origin of the Mide' Religion
Song of the Maiden's Leap
Exploration in the New World, 1492-1542
Detail from the Maguey Plan, depicting a Mexican city, 16th century
Amerigo Vespucci's Exploration of the New World, woodcut, 1506
Montezuma Greets Fernando Cortez, ca. 1520
A Spanish Friar Indicts the Conquistadores for the Massacre of Indians, 1542
Cabeza de Vaca describes the Indians of the Gulf Coast, 1542
Battle and Aftermath at Tenochtitlan, 1568
England's Title to North America, by Richard Hakluyt, 1584
Frontspiece of Thomas Hariot's Brief and True Report... [illustrated by Theodore de Bry], 1588
First Interactions and Mutual Impressions between English Settlers and Indians of North Carolina Coast, 1588
Images of Native Americans by German Illustrator Theodore de Bry, 1588
Depictions of Native American Women and British Tribal Woman, 1588
Map of Virginia, 1607
Powhatan to John Smith, 1608
John Smith Describes the "Starving Time" at Jamestown, 1609-1610
Images from John Smith's Generall Historie, 1624
Pocahontas Saves John Smith From John Smith's General Historie, 1624
From John Smith's Generall Historie, 1624
Laws Pertaining to Slaves and Servants, Virginia 1629-1672
Letter from New England by Richard Saltonstall, 1631
Account of the Pequot War, 1637
Nathaniel Bacon's Declaration of the People, 1676
The State of Virginia, 1676
Nathaniel Bacon's Father Petitions the King, 1676
The Albany Conference, 1754
Extract of a letter from Will's Creek, July 10, 1755
Poems for Soldiers, 1756
Report on Government for Western Territory by Thomas Jefferson, 1784
The Grand Committee on the Subject of the Western Territory, 1786
Mrs. Mary Dewees' Journal from Philadelphia to Kentucky, 1787-1788
Sagu-yu-what-hah (Red Jacket) Addresses Christian Missionaries, 1805
Excerpt from the Journal of Lewis and Clark, 1805
Elias Boudimott Proposes a Cherokee Newspaper, 1827
The Removal of American Indians
The Georgia Gold Rush, 1830
President Jackson Reports on Indian Removal, 1830
Buffalo Hide Yard in Dodge City, Kansas, 1878
The Albuquerque Indian School in 1885
Crow Indian Chiefs and Crow Prisoners, 1887
 

Politics (back to top)

The Oral Tradition of the Foundation of the Iroquois Confederacy
Montezuma Greets Fernando Cortez, ca. 1520
Cabeza de Vaca describes the Indians of the Gulf Coast, 1542
The Mayflower Compact, 1620
Plan for a Massachusetts Town, 1636
Royal Description of Nathaniel Bacon, ca. 1676
Nathaniel Bacon's Declaration of the People, 1676
Bacon's Oath of Fidelity, ca. 1676
The State of Virginia, 1676
King's Letter to the Duke of York, 1676
Nathaniel Bacon's Father Petitions the King, 1676
Oath and Warrant, 1692
Indictment of Bridget Bishop, 1692
Oral Examination of Bridget Bishop, 1692
Physical Examination of Bridget Bishop, 1692
Testimony Against Bridget Bishop, 1692
Death Warrant of Bridget Bishop, 1692
The Albany Conference, 1754
A Poem on Election Day, Author Unknown, Ca. 1760
The Governor of Massachusetts Bay issues a Proclamation against Rioters, 1765
Instructions of the Town of Braintree to Their Representative, 1765
Declaration of Rights, 1765
From the Diary of John Adams, 1765
Account of Col.George Mercer's Arrival in Virginia, and his Resignation of the Office of Stamp Distributor, 1765
A Patriotic Advertisement, 1765
Excerpt from the Diary of Christiana Leach, of Kingsessing 1765-85
An Account of the Battle of Princeton, 1777
Articles of Confederation, 1777
Excerpt from the Diary of Surgeon Albigence Waldo, of the Connecticut Line, 1777-1778
An Account of a Naval Engagement, 1778
"The Sentiments of an AMERICAN WOMAN," 1780
Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown, 1781
Excerpt from the Diary of Miss Anna Rawle, 1781
The Administration of Justice and the Description of the Laws by Thomas Jefferson, 1781
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A Proclamation by James Bowdoin, 1786
Letter from James Madison to General Washington, 1787
Constitution of the United States of America, 1787
Debates in the Federal Convention, 1787
The Federal Convention, Article VII, Section 4, 1787
The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, 1788
Patrick Henry's Speech, June 14, 1788
Excerpts from the Journal of William Maclay, ca. 1790s
Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 1792
Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1793
Washington's Warning to the Insurgents in Pennsylvania, 1794
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1794
Alexander Hamilton Writes to Angelica Schuyler Church, 1794
Tully on the Insurrection in the Western Country, 1794
An Emetic for aristocrats! Or, a Chapter Respecting Governor Jay, and his Treaty, 1795
"Horatius" to the People of the United States, 1795
Thomas Jefferson to To Phillip Mazzei, 1796
George Washington's Farewell Address, 1796
Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1798
President John Adams to Congress, 1799
The President to Governor Claiborne, 1804
The Debate over War in Congress, 1811
Tallmadge's Speech to Congress, 1819
Charles Pickney's Speech to Congress, 1820
Taylor Amendment, January 26, 1820
Thomas Amendment, February 17, 1820
John Quincy Adams and John Calhoun discuss the Compromise, 1820
A Biography Endorsing Presidential Candidate Andrew Jackson, 1828
Daniel Webster Anticipates Jackson's Arrival in Washington, D.C., 1829
Margaret Bayard Smith Describes the Inaugural Celebration, 1829
Jackson Announces his Policy of Rotation in Office, 1829
"Huzzah for Jackson!," 1830s
President Jackson Reports on Indian Removal, 1830
Tocqueville Appreciates American Political Participation, 1831-1832
Peleg Sprague Campaigns for William Henry Harrison, 1839
Virginia Electoral Ticket, 1840
"Stop that Barrel," 1840
Stephen A. Douglas, ca. 1850s
The New York Herald Supports the Compromise of 1850
Calhoun's Speech on the Compromise of 1850
"Let the People Speak Out," 1854
Charles Sumner, Senator from Massachusetts, n.d.
Scenes in the Kansas Election, 1855
Charles Sumner, "The Crime Against Kansas", 1856
"The Reign of Terror," 1856
A Southern Response to the Caning of Sumner, 1856
The Advancing Union Army, 1861-1865
News of the Rebel Army Approaching Chambersburg, 1864
The Aftermath of Destruction at a Town Near Washington, D.C., 1864
The Capture of Fort Pillow, 1864
Joseph Trimble's Oath of Amnesty, 1865
The Townsend Bishop House, ca. 1866
Thaddeus Stevens in Support of Black Suffrage, 1867
Appealing to Racism in Arguing for Female Suffrage, 1867
Sixty-Five Members of the South Carolina Legislature, 1868-1872
The Postwar Political Climate and Election of 1868, 1869
Republican Support for Black Suffrage, 1869
A Democratic View of the 15th Amendment Proposition, 1869
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Black Suffrage, 1869
Ku Klux Costumes in North Carolina, ca. 1870
E.L. Godkin Asesses Reconstruction, 1871
Klan Violence in Georgia, 1871
Race Relations in Georgia, ca. 1871
Description of the South Carolina Legislature by a "Liberal Republican," 1871
The Credit Mobilier Scandal Recounted, 1873
Grant's Farewell Address to Congress, 1876
Presidential Election Results, 1876-1896
An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States, 1888
Mississippi Constitution of 1890
Tom Watson and Anthony Wilson at Sparta, Georgia, 1892
Eugene Debs addresses the American Railway Union, 1894
Gold Democrats Demand New Ticket, 1896
Populist Party Platform, 1896
Ray Stannard Baker, "Hull House and the Ward Boss," 1898
Theodore Roosevelt on Trusts, 1901
Theodore Roosevelt on Conservation, 1901
Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, ca. 1901
Disfranchisement Debate in the Virginia Legislature, 1902
W.E.B. DuBois, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903
"'Jim Crow' Street-Car Law Set to Catch Negroes," 1904
The Niagara Movement's Address to the Country by W.E.B. Du Bois, 1906
Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
President Roosevelt's Popularity, 1909
Lyman Abbott on President Roosevelt, 1909
William Allen White, The Growth of Democracy in America, 1910
Roosevelt, Congress, and the Panama Canal, 1911
Woman Suffrage in States, 1912
Votes for Women a Practical Necessity, ca. 1912
Women and Public Housekeeping, 1913
Votes for Men, 1914
Sedition Act, 1918
Eugene V. Deb's Canton Speech, 1918
Fighting to Death for the Bible, 1925
Against Unrestricted Immigration, 1926
"The Klan's Fight for Americanism," 1926
Prohibition Raid, ca. 1928
New York Campaign Speech by Herbert Hoover, 1928
Last Statement of Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 1929
"Hooverville," New York City, 1930
Hoover Vetoes Muscle Shoals Bill, 1931
Christmas Day Breadlines in New York City, 1931
Social Upheaval in 1931
Special Message to the Congress on the Economic Recovery Program, 1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sara Delano Roosevelt (mother), and Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt (son), New York City, n.d.
The Return of Barter, 1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address, 1933
Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, 1933
John L. Lewis on the NRA, 1934
National Labor Relations Act, 1935
1936 Election
Rural Electrification Act, 1936
HUAC, Communism, and Hollywood, 1948
NSC-68, 1950
Senator Joseph McCarthy, Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, 1950
Speech of Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 1950
Mary Markward Testifying Before the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1951
Undercover in the Communist Party, 1951
The Right of Interposition, 1955
Southern Manifesto, 1956
Duck and Cover, 1960
War on Poverty, 1964
The Economic Opportunity Act, 1964
The Voting Rights Act, 1965
Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
Richard Nixon, "What Has Happened to America?", 1967
Black Power, 1967
George Wallace at Madison Square Garden, 1968
Presidential Elections, 1956-1968
Celebrities on the President's Enemies List, 1971
Tracking the President's Opponents, 1971-1973
Enemies Lists, 1973
Nixon puppet, by Larry N. Frost, Denver, Colorado, ca. 1973
Endangered Species Act, 1973
Jimmy Carter, 1977
Jimmy Carter signs House of Representative Resolution for Equal Rights Amendment, 1978
Independent Counsel Law, 1978
Jimmy Carter's Malaise Speech, 1979
Official Portrait of President Reagan, 1981
Lester Thurow, "How to Wreck the Economy," 1981
An Interview with President Reagan, 1982
The Failure of the Reagan Revolution, 1986
The Clarence Thomas Confirmation Hearings, 1991
The President and Vice President on the South Lawn of the White House, 1993
Newt Gingrich, "Where We Go From Here," 1995
President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in the White House, 1995
"The Era of Big Government is Over," 1996
The Starr Report, 1998
The President's Representatives Respond, 1998
A Resignation in the House, 1998
 

Reform and Activism (back to top)

Observations on the Real Rights of Women, 1818
Improving Female Education by Emma Willard, 1819
"Bostonians Break up Abolition Meetings," n.d.
Garrison Writes his His First Editorial for the The Liberator, 1831
African Americans Convene for Their Second National Convention, 1832
The Effects of Intemperancy, 1839
Reverend M'Ilvaine Denounces Intemperance, 1839
Horace Mann Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1840
Tabitha Dreams of a Better Society, 1841
Dorothea Dix Speaks on Behalf of Insane Persons, 1843
The North Star on Seneca Falls, 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Responds to the Printed Challenges to the Woman's Rights Movement, 1848
John Brown, ca. 1850
Frances Gage Remembers Sojourner Truth Appearing At the Akron Convention, 1851
Israel Green, The Capture of John Brown, 1859
Storming of the Engine House by the U.S. Marines, 1859
John Brown Addresses the Court, 1859
A Fight at the Polls, 1860
The Election of 1860
Charleston, South Carolina, Reacts to Lincoln's Election, 1860
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861
The Course of Secession, 1860-1861
Address of Hon. Henry L. Benning, of Georgia, 1861
Virginia Leaves the Union, 1861
Secession Sentiment in Virginia, 1861
"The Southern Confederacy - What Secession Means," 1861
Thaddeus Stevens in Support of Black Suffrage, 1867
Appealing to Racism in Arguing for Female Suffrage, 1867
Republican Support for Black Suffrage, 1869
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Black Suffrage, 1869
Progress and Poverty, 1879
"The Factory System as an Element in Civilization," 1882
"Which? Sunday in the Grog Shop or Museum?" 1885
August Spies Defends the Eight-Hour Movement, 1886
Colored Alliance Demands, 1889
Chinese Stereotyping, 1890
Banners of the Woman's Christian Temperence Union, ca. 1890
Black Farmers Strike, 1891
Tom Watson and Anthony Wilson at Sparta, Georgia, 1892
Richard Croker on Tammany Hall, 1892
Eugene Debs addresses the American Railway Union, 1894
Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth Against the Commonwealth, 1894
Gold Democrats Demand New Ticket, 1896
Populist Party Platform, 1896
Ray Stannard Baker, "Hull House and the Ward Boss," 1898
Theodore Roosevelt on Conservation, 1901
Our Forests and National Parks, by John Muir, 1901
Forest Reserves & National Parks in the Western United States, 1901
Disfranchisement Debate in the Virginia Legislature, 1902
The Riverside Tenements in Brooklyn, 1902
W.E.B. DuBois, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903
Richmond African Americans Boycott Streetcars, 1904
"'Jim Crow' Street-Car Law Set to Catch Negroes," 1904
The Threat of Food and Drug Adulteration, 1905
The Great American Fraud by Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1905
A Grim Warning against Patent Medicines, 1905
The Niagara Movement's Address to the Country by W.E.B. Du Bois, 1906
The Condemned-Meat Industry, 1906
Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
Prohibition Cartoon, 1908
Children in the Cotton Mills, 1908
Night Scene at Indiana Glass Works, 1908
William Allen White, The Growth of Democracy in America, 1910
Jane Addams, "First Days at Hull-House," 1910
Theodore Roosevelt's African Game Trails, 1910
Woman Suffrage in States, 1912
Votes for Women a Practical Necessity, ca. 1912
Tenement Room, 1913
Tenement Street Scene, 1913
Women and Public Housekeeping, 1913
Votes for Men, 1914
A Brief for the Palmer-Owen Child Labor Bill, 1914
"I'm a Bolshevist from the Bottom of My Feet to the Top of My Head," Mother Jones, 1919
Woman and the New Race, 1921
Modernism in Architecture, 1922
Threats to Christian Civilization, 1922
"The Crowd at the Ball Game" by William Carlos Williams, 1923
Fighting to Death for the Bible, 1925
"The Klan's Fight for Americanism," 1926
Prohibition Raid, ca. 1928
Last Statement of Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 1929
A. Philip Randolph, "Why Should We March?," 1942
Sitting-In In Mississippi, 1963
Malcolm X on the March on Washington, 1964
Call for a March Against the Vietnam War, 1965
Martin Luther King and Economic Justice, 1966
Black Power, 1967
Stokely Carmichael Speaks at Florida A&M University, 1967
Rally Against the Vietnam War at the Pentagon, 1967
Country Joe and the Fish, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die Rag," 1968
Equal Rights Demonstration, 1970
El Plan de Santa Barbara, 1969
Rally for Gay Rights, 1984
Anti-Abortion Protesters, 1992
 

Religion (back to top)

The Oral Tradition of the Foundation of the Iroquois Confederacy
Oral Tradition of the Origin of the Mide' Religion
A Spanish Friar Indicts the Conquistadores for the Massacre of Indians, 1542
England's Title to North America, by Richard Hakluyt, 1584
The Mayflower Compact, 1620
A Modell of Christian Charity, by John Winthrop, 1630
Emigrants to New England from Sandwich, England 1635
Plan for a Massachusetts Town, 1636
Oath and Warrant, 1692
Indictment of Bridget Bishop, 1692
Oral Examination of Bridget Bishop, 1692
Physical Examination of Bridget Bishop, 1692
Testimony Against Bridget Bishop, 1692
Death Warrant of Bridget Bishop, 1692
The Great Awakening in New Hampshire, ca. 1735
The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry, 1740
Sagu-yu-what-hah (Red Jacket) Addresses Christian Missionaries, 1805
Account of a Connecticut Camp Meeting, 1806
A Thanksgiving Sermon, 1808
Portrait of Absalom Jones, 1810
The Shakers of New Lebanon, Religious Exercises in the Dining Room, n.d.
Christian Motherhood, etching, 1825
Charles Finney Recalls his Days in Oneida County, New York, ca. 1830
Prophet Joseph Smith Relays God's Message, 1831
Tocqueville Witnesses American Religious Enthusiasm, 1831-1832
William Sprague Describes Revivals, 1833
"Pray, Maiden, Pray," ca. 1863
"Lincoln's 150,000 Negro Soldiers," 1863
Reactions to Emancipation in Virginia, 1865
The Townsend Bishop House, ca 1866
Threats to Christian Civilization, 1922
Fighting to Death for the Bible, 1925
Anti-Abortion Protesters, 1992
 

Rural and Farm Life (back to top)

Letter from New England by Richard Saltonstall, 1631
"The forme of a binding servant," 1635
Plan for a Massachusetts Town, 1636
Indentured Servitude in Maryland, 1666
Will of Edward Garfield from Watertown, Massachusetts, 1668
The Cotton Gin, ca. 1800
News of the Rebel Army Approaching Chambersburg, 1864
Reactions to Emancipation in Virginia, 1865
Description of Sharecropping Tenants on a Georgia Plantation, 1881
Colored Alliance Demands, 1889
Black Farmers Strike, 1891
Tom Watson and Anthony Wilson at Sparta, Georgia, 1892
Banner of the People's Party Paper, December 9, 1892
Family in El Paso, Arkansas, 1931
Roosevelt on Electric Power, 1934
Rural Electrification Act, 1936
"Stringing rural TVA transmission line," 1937
Electrified Thumb, 1938
Electrifying Housework, 1930s
The Music of Woody Guthrie, 1940
 

Science and Technology (back to top)

"Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1866-model bicycle for two."
Imagined Uses of the Telephone, 1885
The Threat of Food and Drug Adulteration, 1905
The Great American Fraud by Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1905
A Grim Warning against Patent Medicines, 1905
Threats to Christian Civilization, 1922
"Dirty Work at the Crossroads," 1923
Fighting to Death for the Bible, 1925
Roosevelt on Electric Power, 1934
"Stringing rural TVA transmission line," 1937
Electrifying Housework, 1930s
Russian Development of the Atomic Bomb, 1949
Truman Calls for Development of the Hydrogen Bomb, 1950
Polio Hysteria, 1953
The Polio Vaccine, 1955
"Another Torch for Freedom!", 1955
Macintosh Computers, 1990s
Windows 95 Is Unveiled to the Public, 1995
Second Thoughts on the Information Highway, 1995
The Creation of the Cyberghetto, 1998
A Brief History of the Internet, 1999
 

Urban Growth and Life (back to top)

Detail from the Maguey Plan, depicting a Mexican city, 16th century
Notices and Advertisements from the New York Evening Post, 1824
Advertisements from the New York Evening Post, 1824
The Evils of Fashionable Dress, by J. H. Kellogg, M.D., 1876
"Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1866-model bicycle for two."
"Which? Sunday in the Grog Shop or Museum?" 1885
General Executive Board, Knights of Labor, ca. 1888
Chinese Stereotyping, 1890
New York City Tenement Life, 1890
"A Typical East-Side Block," 1890 and 1902
Richard Croker on Tammany Hall, 1892
Ray Stannard Baker, "Hull House and the Ward Boss," 1898
The Evolution of the Tenement, 1902
The Riverside Tenements in Brooklyn, 1902
"Dens of Death," 1902
Jane Addams, "First Days at Hull-House," 1910
Tenement Room, 1913
Tenement Street Scene, 1913
Race Riots in Chicago, 1919
The Negro Speaks of Rivers and I Too by Langston Hughes, 1920s
Modernism in Architecture, 1922
"Dirty Work at the Crossroads," 1923
Automobile Advertising, 1923
"The Crowd at the Ball Game" by William Carlos Williams, 1923
White Houses by Claude McKay, 1925
The Six Thousand Houses That Levitt Built, 1948
Levittown, 1948
The Affluent Society, 1958
Lewis Mumford on Suburbs, 1961
 

Women and Gender Issues (back to top)

Cabeza de Vaca describes the Indians of the Gulf Coast, 1542
Images of Native Americans by German Illustrator Theodore de Bry, 1588
Depictions of Native American Women and British Tribal Woman, 1588
The Betrayed Maiden, 17th century
Laws Pertaining to Slaves and Servants, Virginia 1629-1672
Emigrants to New England from Sandwich, England 1635
Indentured Servitude in Maryland, 1666
Will of Edward Garfield from Watertown, Massachusetts, 1668
Oath and Warrant, 1692
Indictment of Bridget Bishop, 1692
Oral Examination of Bridget Bishop, 1692
Physical Examination of Bridget Bishop, 1692
Testimony Against Bridget Bishop, 1692
Death Warrant of Bridget Bishop, 1692
Excerpt from the Diary of Christiana Leach, of Kingsessing 1765-85
John McKinly Writes to his Wife Jenny, 1777
"The Sentiments of an AMERICAN WOMAN," 1780
Abigail Adams, n.d.
Mrs. Mary Dewees' Journal from Philadelphia to Kentucky, 1787-1788
Excerpt from the Memoirs of Susan Mansfield Huntington, 1815
Observations on the Real Rights of Women, 1818
Improving Female Education by Emma Willard, 1819
Notices and Advertisements from the New York Evening Post, 1824
Advertisements from the New York Evening Post, 1824
Christian Motherhood, etching, 1825
Tabitha Dreams of a Better Society, 1841
The North Star on Seneca Falls, 1848
"The Women of Philadelphia", ca. 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Responds to the Printed Challenges to the Woman's Rights Movement, 1848
Frances Gage Remembers Sojourner Truth Appearing At the Akron Convention, 1851
New Haven Women Act On Behalf of the Sick and Wounded, 1861
From the Diary of a Young Northern Woman, 1861-1862
Mary Phinney Recalls her Experiences of August 1862
From the Diary of a Young Southern Woman, 1862
"Pray, Maiden, Pray," ca. 1863
The Lynchburg Hospital Association, ca. 1863
The Townsend Bishop House, ca 1866
Appealing to Racism in Arguing for Female Suffrage, 1867
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Black Suffrage, 1869
The Evils of Fashionable Dress, by J. H. Kellogg, M.D., 1876
"Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1866-model bicycle for two."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1881
Advice on Working and Saving, 1887
Banners of the Woman's Christian Temperence Union, ca. 1890
Jane Addams, "First Days at Hull-House," 1910
Woman Suffrage in States, 1912
Votes for Women a Practical Necessity, ca. 1912
Women and Public Housekeeping, 1913
Votes for Men, 1914
Virgil Bates and Family, 1919
Woman and the New Race, 1921
"Dirty Work at the Crossroads," 1923
Women on the Homefront During World War II, 1940s
Women in the Defense Industry, 1941-1942
"Woman-Power!", 1943
Equal Rights Demonstration, 1970
Rejecting Gender-Free Equality, 1977
Jimmy Carter signs House of Representative Resolution for Equal Rights Amendment, 1978
The Black Woman and the Women's Movement, 1979
The Clarence Thomas Confirmation Hearings, 1991
Anti-Abortion Protesters, 1992