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1868-1900:
National party balance in presidential elections, 18681900 - chart |
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1867:
"Women Suffrage in New Jersey" - an address delivered by Lucy Stone, at
a hearing before the New Jersey Legislature (3/6) |
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1868:
Portia Gage Tries to Vote in Vineland - Portia Gage
to C. B. Campbell, March 12, 1868. Women's Rights and Suffrage File,
Collections of the Vineland Historical Society |
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1868:
Report of the Judiciary Committee of the New Jersey Assembly
- New Jersey Assembly, Minutes of Votes and Proceedings 1868,
1049-1052. |
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1870:
"Appeal
to womanhood throughout the world" - Julia Ward Howe - broadside |
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1870:
A History of the National Woman's Rights Movement - Paulina Wright Davis |
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1870:
"Temperance --Gerrit Smith to Hon. Henry Wilson" - broadside |
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1872:
Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of
Practical Housewifery - Marion Harland |
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1873:
Credit Mobilier - testimony of C. P. Huntington, 1873 |
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1873:
The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
- Cecil B. Hartley |
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1873:
Speech After Being
Convicted Of Voting In The 1872 Presidential Election by Susan B.
Anthony |
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1876-1920:
Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1876-1920 - chart |
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1876:
Blaine Amendment |
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1876:
The Evils of Fashionable Dress, by J. H. Kellogg, M.D |
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1876:
Letter from Harriet M. Worden to John H. Noyes, Oneida Community
(1/26) |
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1876:
"Woman's Subjection," Editorial, Oneida Circular (3/2) |
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1878:
Reynolds v. United States --
issue of religiously-motivated conduct |
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1878:
Yale Professor William Graham Sumner Prescribes
Laissez-Faire for Depression Woes |
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1879:
Memories of a Massachusetts Girlhood at the Turn of the
19th century - Sarah Smith Emery |
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1879:
“Poor Little Stephen Girard" -
Mark Twain Lampoons the Horatio Alger
Myth |
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1880s?:
"Charles Guiteau" - song lyrics about the assassin of President
Garfield |
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1880:
"Behind Again" - political cartoon from Harper's Weekly (7/24) |
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1880:
“Exultant Tammanyite” - political cartoon from Harper's
Weekly
(10/30) |
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1880:
"The Friend of the Freedman" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly (10/23) |
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1880:
"Gen.
Grant's reasons for supporting Gen. Garfield. A sharply-drawn
contrast. Speech at Warren, OH, 9/28 .... President Grant's letter in
1876 to Gov. Chamberlain, of SC, on the Hamburg massacre [Washington
DC]" - broadside |
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1880:
"Hancock and Lincoln" - political cartoon from Harper's
Weekly
(11/6) |
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1880:
Horatio Alger’s American Fable - “The World Before Him” |
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1880:
“Positively Last Awakening of the Democratic Rip Van Winkle” -
political cartoon in Puck (10/27) |
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1880:
"The Return of the Prodigal" - political cartoon from
Harper's
Weekly
(9/25) |
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1880:
"Victory!" - political cartoon from Harper's Weekly (11/20) |
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1881:
American Nervousness, Its Causes and Consequences - George M. Beard |
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1881:
Inaugural Address of James A. Garfield |
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1881:
"Stop that man! He shot the President!" - drawing |
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1881:
“A
Telephonic Conversation” in The Complete Humorous Sketches and
Tales of Mark Twain |
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1881:
"Woman
suffrage. Legal opinion by W. D. Wallace, Esq., upon the power of the
legislature to authorize women to vote for presidential electors" -
Lafayette, IN |
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1881:
"Why I
Became a 'Woman's Rights Man" - Frederick Douglass |
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1882:
"The
Civil Service Reform Controversy" - E. L. Godkin, North
American Review (April 1882), at MoA-Cornell |
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1882:
"The
Danger of an Office-Holding Aristocracy" - E. L. Godkin, The Century
(June 1882), at MoA-Cornell |
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1883:
Coney Island Frolics - Richard K. Fox |
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1883:
"The
Constitutional Rights Of The Women Of The United States" - an Address
Before The International Council Of Women by Isabella Beecher Hooker
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1883:
The Day
of Two Noons |
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1883:
"The
Duties of American Citizenship" - speech by Teddy Roosevelt (1/26) |
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1883:
"Is It Ignorance?" - Emmeline Wells in The Woman's Exponent
(7/1) |
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1883:
Pendleton (Civil Service) Act |
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1883:
The Treaty Of Peace and Independence
- George Ticknor Curtis
(part 2) |
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1883:
"The True
Meaning of Republican Harmony" - political cartoon by Bernhard Gilliam
in Puck (3/11) |
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1883:
What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other - William Graham
Sumner |
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1884:
“‘Above Petty Personal Issues'" - political cartoon in
Harper's
Weekly
(11/1) |
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1884:
"Another Voice for Cleveland" - political cartoon in Judge
(9/27) |
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1884:
“Beware! For He Is Very Hungry and Very Thirsty” - political
cartoon in Harper's Weekly (11/29) |
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1884:
Campaign of 1884, Tract No. 2 - Burdette's advice to young voters -
broadside |
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1884:
Campaign, 1884, Tract No. 5 - Reasons why workingmen should vote for
Blaine & Logan. Think! Think!! Think!!! - broadside
image |
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1884:
"Campaign of 1884. Tract No. 8. If General Jackson was alive he would
be a Republican. He was opposed to free trade, and so would be against
the Democratic party and platform of 1884 ... Vote for Blaine & Logan"
- broadside
image |
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1884:
"Cant, chastity, and charity in politics" - the New York
Nation (10/9) |
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1884:
“Cleveland the Celibate”-political cartoon in Harper's Weekly
(4/18) |
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1884:
"Don't
be deceived by a name. What is the present Democratic party, in the
campaign of 1884. Testimony of a distinguished Democrat as to the
condition of his party ... Vote for Blain & Logan. Tack this up" -
broadside |
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1884:
"The Honest Republican Voter" - political cartoon in
Harper's
Weekly
(10/11) |
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1884:
"In Our Youth Our
Hearts Were Touched With Fire..." - Oliver Wendell Homes |
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1884:
"The Knight of the Money-Bag" - political cartoon in
Harper's
Weekly
(8/30) |
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1884:
"Love's Labor's Lost" - political cartoon in Puck (May 7) |
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1884:
"Men May Come
and Men May Go, but the Work of Reform Shall Go on Forever" -
political cartoon in Puck (11/8) |
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1884:
"Out of a Job Once More" - political cartoon in Puck (11/5) |
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1884:
"The Sacred Elephant" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly
(3/8) |
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1885:
First Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland |
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1885:
"Imagined
Uses of the Telephone" - from "What Science May Do For
Us," Life. 5:121 (4/23) |
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1886:
Applied Christianity: Moral Aspects of Social
Questions - Washington Gladden |
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1886:
Wabash, St. Louis, and
Pacific Railroad Co. v. IL |
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1887:
An Anarchist by Any Other Name - Albert Parsons and
Anarchist Socialism |
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1888:
"Yankee
doodle. Revised for the Camp Fire by Comrade Thersites" - broadside |
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1889:
Inaugural Address of Benjamin Harrison |
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1890:
A Woman’s Work - Mary Lease Celebrates Women Populists |
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1890-1980:
"Marriages and Divorces" - chart |
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1890s:
“It Was Considered Low Music”- Pianist Eubie Blake on
the Birth of Ragtime at the Turn of the Century (as recalled in 1970) |
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1892:
One Country! One
Language! One Flag! - National School Celebration of Columbus
Day: The Official Programme |
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1892:
The People's Party Platform |
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1892:
Pledge of
Allegiance |
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1893:
The Cook and the Governor - Seeing Eye-to-Eye on
Unemployment |
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1893:
Petition to Congress to Repeal the Act Closing the World's Columbian
Exposition on Sundays--"Religious Toleration is Christian
Civilization" - Thomas Alva Edison (1/4)
(cover
letter) |
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1893:
The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the
World's Columbian Exposition- The Afro-American's Contribution to
Columbian Literature - Ida B. Wells |
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1893:
Second Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland |
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1894:
Coxey’s Army Invades the Nation’s Capital |
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1894:
"Why I am a Protectionist" - issue 49 of The Defender,
published by the American Protective Tariff League - broadside
(image) |
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1895:
"The Soldiers' Faith" - Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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1895:
Wheel of Fortune - Frances Willard Discovers the
Bicycle |
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1896:
Anti-Silver and
Pro-Silver political cartoons - many links |
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1896:
“Bryan’s Mental
Condition”: One Psychiatrist’s View -
letter to the New York
Times (9/27) |
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1896:
"Cross of Gold" Speech - William Jennings Bryan |
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1896:
Democratic Party Platform of 1896 |
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1896:
"Free
coinage of silver.,Speech of Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, in
the House of Representatives, Thursday, February 13" - broadside |
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1896:
Gold Democrats Demand New Ticket |
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1896:
“I Am a Democrat and not a Revolutionist” - Senator
David Bennett Hill Defends the Gold Standard |
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1896:
“Is Bryan Crazy?” - The New York Times (9/27) |
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1896:
“Pitchfork Ben” Tillman Addresses the 1896 Democratic
Convention (7/7) |
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1896:
Populist Party Platform of 1896 (7/24) |
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1896:
Republican Party Platform of 1896 |
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1896:
A Thorn in the Side - A Socialist Takes Aim at Gompers |
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1896:
"What's the Matter with Kansas?" - editorial by William Allen White in
the Emporia Gazette (8/15) |
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1897:
First Inaugural Address of William McKinley |
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1897:
"How Not To Help
Our Poorer Brother" - Theodore Roosevelt (Jan.) |
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1898:
"The Vogue of Vaudeville" - B. F. Keith, National Magazine (Nov.) |
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1899:
"The
Strenuous Life" - speech by Teddy Roosevelt (April) |
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late 19c:
"The Sunny Side of Life" - sermon by James Hedley |
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1900: "Farmer
Mark and the Boys Getting Ready for the Political Presidential Market
of 1900 - political cartoon in The Verdict |
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1900:
Gold Standard Act (3/14) |
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1900:
"A
Salutation to the Twentieth Century" - Mark Twain (12/31) |
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1900:
Two political cartoons on Grover Cleveland and the 1900 Presidential
Campaign - The Verdict
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1900:
The
Wonderful World of Oz - Frank Baum (entire text) |
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1901:
Gender Bender - Mary Masquerades as Murray |
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1901:
Second Inaugural Address of William McKinley |
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1901:
Senda Berenson Asserts the Value of Adapted Women's Basketball |
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1902:
The
Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature -
William James (full text) |
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1903:
Telegram from Orville Wright to Bishop Milton Wright announcing
the first successful powered flight (12/17) |
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1904:
"I'mA Gizzard"- The Vaudeville Comedy Act of Weber and
Fields |
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1905:
"Thaw
Murders Stanford White: Shoots Him on the Madison Square Garden
Roof" - The New York Times (11/29) |
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1906:
The Great San Francisco
Earthquake -- Eyewitness Accounts |
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1906:
The Great San
Francisco Earthquake --
Quake and Fire
Newspaper Clippings |
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1912:
“It Works Like a
Charm: Scientific Management and the Servant Problem” - Christine
Frederick, The New Housekeeping series, Ladies Home Journal
(December) |
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1912:
“The New Housekeeping:
How it Helps the Woman Who Does Her Own Work” - Christine Frederick,
Ladies Home Journal (September) |
