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1876-1920:
Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1876-1920 - chart |
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1890s-1920s:
Various
Documents on the "New Woman"
(additional documents) |
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1914:
Excerpts from Hunter's Civic Biology - What the students in
John Scopes' class read about evolution |
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early 1920s:
“Speak, Garvey, Speak!” - a Follower
Recalls a Marcus Garvey Rally (audio file) |
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1920s?:
Klu Klux Klan - photo |
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1920s:
Timeless Love Song Lyrics fro the 1920s |
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1920s:
Photo of Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a
clandestine underground brewery during the Prohibition era. |
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1920:
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Makes “The Case
against the Reds” |
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1920:
"As Gag Rulers Would Have It" - political cartoon about the Sedition
Act from the Jersey City Journal (2/7) |
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1920:
Black History Census Study (pdf) |
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1920:
“The Most Brainiest Man -” The Red Scare and Free
Speech in Connecticut (in The Nation, 4/17) |
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1920:
"The Case
Against the Reds" - J. Mitchell Palmer in Forum |
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1920:
"Cleaning the Nest" - political cartoon from the New York Evening
World (1/17) |
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1920:
Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (sister of Theodore) - speech in which
she supports the Republican ticket of Senator Harding and Governor
Coolidge |
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1920:
Democratic Party Platform
Republican Party Platform |
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1920:
"Democracy's Achievement" - Robert Latham Owen |
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1920:
The
Economic Consequences of the Peace - John Maynard Keynes |
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1920:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
Speaking
on Americanism |
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1920:
Governor Calvin Coolidge (R-MA) - campaign speech ("Law and Order") |
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1920:
Governor Coolidge (R-MA) - speech on equal rights |
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1920:
Governor Cox (D-OH) - speech on confidence in the government |
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1920:
Governor James M. Cox (D-OH) in a speech on World War I |
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1920:
"The Most
Brainiest Man" - article in The Nation (4/17) |
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1920:
Senator Warren G. Harding (R-OH) - campaign speech ("Readjustment") |
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1920:
"The Last Few Buttons Are Always the Hardest" - political cartoon
about women's suffrage from the St. Louis Star (3/27) |
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1920:
The 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
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1920:
"Peace, Progress, and Prosperity" - George White |
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1920:
"Prevention of War" - James M. Cox |
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1920:
Pioneer Suffragist Casts G. O. P. Ballot -
Elizabeth Daily Journal, November 3, 1920, p. 6 |
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1920:
Rounding Up the "Reds" in a Nation-Wide Campaign
Against Revolutionaries in the Outlook
(1/20) originally from the International -
photo |
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1920:
"Safeguard America!" - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson |
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1920:
“Save Sacco and Vanzetti” - The Defense Committee’s
Plea |
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1920:
Speech Given at
the Women's Interracial Conference - Charlotte Hawkins Brown |
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1920:
Starving for Women’s Suffrage - “I Am Not
Strong after These Weeks” |
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1920:
"Summons
to Duty" - Homer C. Cummings |
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1920:
"Swat the Fly, But Use Common Sense!" - political cartoon about the
Sedition Act from the Newark News (3/6) |
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1920:
Volstead Act |
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1920:
Warren G. Harding,
"The American Soldier" |
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1920:
Women Win the Right to Vote" - Historical
Gazette (8/26) |
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1921:
“Another View of the
Tulsa Riots” - Amy Comstock in Survey (7/2) |
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1921:
"Big Ideas from Big Business" - Edward Earle Purinton |
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1921:
Budget and Accounting Act |
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1921:
“Business . . . the
Salvation of the World”- Celebrating Big Business - Edward E. Purinton, “Business as the Savior of the Community,” Independent
(4/16) |
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1921:
Carrie
Chapman Catt, "A Teapot in a Tempest," The Woman Citizen (2/5) |
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1921:
Congressional Debate on Immigration Restriction |
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1921:
“Defending Greenwood”- A Survivor Recalls
the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 |
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1921:
Emergency Quota Act |
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1921:
Equal Rights
Amendment |
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1921:
“The Eruption of
Tulsa” - Walter White in Nation (6/29) |
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1921:
EUGENISTS DREAD TAINTED ALIENS; Believe Immigration Restriction
Essential to Prevent Deterioration of Race Here. MELTING POT FALSE
THEORY Racial Mixture Liable to Lower the Quality of the Stock--
Prof. Osborn's Views. THE LESSON OF EVOLUTION Minute Scruting of
Family History of Prospective Immigrants Is Advocated. Stricter
Immigration Guard. The Lesson of Evolution. Sees Peril in
Individualism. EUGENISTS DREAD TAINTED ALIENS Effects of the War-
NY Times (9/25) |
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1921:
Final Report of the Tulsa Commission to Study the Race Riots of 1921 |
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1921:
Four-Power Treaty (12/13) |
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1921:
“If You Believe the Negro Has a Soul” -
“Back to Africa” with Marcus Garvey |
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1921:
Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding |
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1921:
Letters from College |
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1921:
“The New Negro. When
He’s Hit, He Hits Back!” - Rollin Lynde Hartt in
Independent, (1/15) |
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1921:
Selections from
[F]BI
File on Endicott, Broome County, N.Y. Radicals |
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1921:
"The New Anti-Feminist Campaign" by Mary G. Kilbreth in The Woman
Patriot (6/15) |
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1921:
Treaty Between the U. S., the British Empire, France, and Japan,
Signed at Washington (12/13) |
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1921:
Woman and the New Race - Margaret Sanger |
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1921, 1925:
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "I Too" - poems by
Langston Hughes |
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1921-1927:
“I Bobbed My Hair and
Then—,” Ladies Home Journal - Irene Castle Treman,
October 1921, 124; Mary Garden “Why I Bobbed My Hair,” Pictorial
Review, April 1927, 8; Mary Pickford, “Why I Have Not Bobbed
Mine,” Pictorial Review, April 1927 |
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1922:
American Indian Myth Poems - Hartley Alexander |
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1922:
Bailey v.
Drexel Furniture Company |
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1922:
“The Black Star Line”
- W. E. B. Du Bois in Crisis (September) |
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1922:
Debunking Intelligence Experts - Walter
Lippmann Speaks Out |
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1922:
“Do Insects Think?
Some Data on the Reasoning Power of the Wasp” - Robert Benchley,
Life 80 (8/3) |
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1922:
“The Facts Must Be Faced” - Intelligence Is Destiny |
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1922:
"A
Flapper's Appeal to Parents" - article in Outlook Magazine
(12/6) |
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1922:
"If We Must Die" -
poem by Claude McKay |
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1922:
In Defense of IQ Testing- Lewis M. Terman Replies to
Critics |
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1922:
"Modernism in Architecture" - Lewis Mumford |
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1922:
The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race
Riot |
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1922:
Nine-Power Treaty (2/6) |
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1922:
Peace and Bread in Time of War - Jane Addams |
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1922:
“Shall the
Fundamentalists Win?” - Harry Emerson Fosdick, Christian
Work 102 (6/10) |
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1922:
“The Problem” and “Family Histories” - Charles Johnson
Analyzes the Causes of the Chicago Race Riot |
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1922:
"Threats to Christian Civilization" - political cartoon |
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1922:
Washington Treaty in Relation to the Use of Submarines
and Noxious Gases in Warfare (2/6) |
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1922:
What Prohibition Has Done - Fabian Franklin |
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1922:
"You and Your Laundry"
- pamphlet by Christine Frederick |
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1923:
“The Benevolent
Brotherhood of Baseball Bugs” - Edgar F. Wolfe, Literary Digest |
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1923:
“Cotton Belt
Blues”- Lizzie Miles’s Blues Song |
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1923:
“The Crowd at the Ball
Park” - William Carlos Williams in Dial |
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1923:
"Dirty Work at the Crossroads" - cover of Judge (1/26) |
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1923:
“I Am Only a Piece of Machinery” -
Housewives Analyze Their Problems |
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1923:
“The Madness of Marcus
Garvey” - Robert W. Bagnall in Messenger (March) |
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1923:
“New York’s
World-Beating New Stadium,” Literary Digest (4/28) |
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1923:
"The Negro's
Greatest Enemy" - Marcus Garvey in Current History (Sept.) |
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1923:
Rosewood Massacre Report |
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1923:
Statement to the Press on Release on Bail Pending Appeal - Marcus
Garvey (9/10) |
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1923:
U.S. v. Bhagat Singh
Thind |
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1924:
"Authority and Religious Liberty" Speech - Calvin Coolidge (9/21) |
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1924:
“The Black Star Line”- Singing a Song of
Garveyism |
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1924:
Carrie
Chapman Catt, "Poison Propaganda," The Woman Citizen
(5/31/1924), 14, 32-33 |
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1924:
Covenant of
the League of Nations |
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1924:
Democratic Party Platform
Republican Party Platform
Progressive Party Platform |
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1924:
Disarmament speech by British Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin |
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1924:
Immigration Act of 1924 |
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1924:
Indian Citizenship Act |
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1924:
"Juggernaut" - political cartoon on the Teapot Dome Scandal |
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1924:
Lucia
Maxwell, "Spider Web chart: The Socialist-Pacifist Movement in America
Is an Absolutely Fundamental and Integral Part of International
Socialism," The Dearborn Independent, XXIV, 3/22/1924, 11 |
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1924:
Marcus Garvey speech to UNIA Convention - New York (8/31) |
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1924:
Mercy for
Leopold and Loeb - speech by Clarence Darrow (Aug.) |
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1924:
Robert H. Clancy, a
Republican congressman from Detroit with a large immigrant
constituency, defended immigrants |
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1924:
“The Senate’s
Declaration of War,” Japan Times and Mail (4/19) |
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1924:
“Shut the Door” - A Senator Speaks for
Immigration Restriction |
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1925?:
American Imperialism: The Menace of the Greatest
Capitalist World Power
By Jay Lovestone (Chicago: Workers Party of America |
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1925:
“The Ancient Days Have Not Departed” - Calvin Coolidge
on the Spirituality of Commerce |
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1925:
Bryan and Darrow at Dayton, TN |
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1925:
“The
Double Task: The Struggle of Negro Women for Sex and Race
Emancipation” - Elise Johnson McDougald in Survey (3/1) |
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1925:
"Flapper
Jane" - article in The New Republic by Bruce Bliven (9/9) |
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1925:
Gitlow v. The People of New York |
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1925:
Geneva Protocol (6/17) |
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1925:
"Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro" - a hypermedia edition of the
March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem Number |
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1925:
"How
New Jersey Laws Discriminate Against Women" - flyer published by the
National Woman's Party |
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1925:
Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge |
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1925:
The
Klan Manual |
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1925:
Seventy Years of Life and Labor
- Samuel Gompers (Ch. 26:
"My Economical Philosophy") |
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1925:
“Spunk” - Zora Neale
Hurston in Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro |
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1925:
The Tennessee Anti-Evolution Statute |
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1925:
Transcript
from the Proceeding of the Scopes Trial |
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1925:
"White House" - poem by Claude McKay |
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1925:
William Jennings Bryan's Last Statement |
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1925, 1927:
Several Advertisements of the Period |
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1925-27:
Who Was Shut Out - Immigration Quotas,
1925–1927 |
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1926:
Fiorella LaGuardia testifies against
prohibition
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1926:
Outline of Marriage
- Floyd Dell |
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1926:
"The Inspiration of the Declaration" Speech - Calvin Coolidge |
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1926:
The Klan's Fight for Americanism - Hyram W. Evans |
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1926:
Myers
v. United States |
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1926:
"National Gesture" political cartoon - Judge (6/12) |
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1926:
National Prohibition Law Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the
Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Sixty-Ninth Congress
(4/5 to 4/24) |
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1926:
“The Negro-Art Hokum”
- George S. Schuyler in Nation (6/16) |
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1926:
The New Housekeeping - Solving the Servant
Problem |
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1926:
Women's National Committee for Law
Enforcement 1926 Statement |
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1926: A
Yale University student testifies against prohibition |
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1927:
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Court Statement |
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1927:
D.A.R. "Dossier on Jane Addams" (document #11 on the page) |
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1927:
Daughters
of the American Revolution, "Doubtful Speakers" |
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1927:
"Direct Democracy" - speech given by Martin Wilie Littleton |
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1927:
Gong Lum v. Rice - affirmed legalized school
segregation |
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1927:
"Imperialism
Is Easy" - John Dewey in The New Republic 50 (3/23) |
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1927:
The Last Days Remembered - A Compatriot
Recalls the Deaths of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927 (as recalled in 1954) |
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1927:
“They Are Dead Now”- Eulogy for Sacco and Vanzetti by
John Dos Passos |
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1927:
Mrs.
William Sherman Walker, "Adequate National Defense Versus a National
Peace Department" (Dec.) |
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1927:
U.S. Intervention in Central America - Kellogg’s
Charges of a Bolshevist Threat |
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1927:
"What the Klan Did in Indiana" - The New Republic (11/16) |
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1927:
Whitney v. California |
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1927-30:
Political
Cartoons appearing in the Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazine, 1927-1930 |
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1928:
Boulder Canyon Project Act |
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1928:
Democratic Party Platform
Republican Party Platform |
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1928:
“I Will Not Be Influenced in Appointments”
- Al Smith Accepts the Nomination for President |
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1928:
New York City Campaign Speech by Herbert Hoover |
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1928:
Kellogg-Briand Pact |
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1928:
“March On, O Dago Christs” - Sacco and Vanzetti
Memorialized by Malcolm Cowley in The Nation (8/22) |
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1928:
Olmstead v. United States |
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1928:
Prohibition Raid (photo) |
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1928:
"Rugged Individualism" speech - Herbert Hoover |
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1928:
“Sadie’s Servant
Room Blues”- Domestic Work in song lyrics |
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1928:
Selection of the
letters in her book Motherhood in Bondage - Margaret Sanger |
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1928:
Should a Catholic Be President - A
Contemporary View of the 1928 Election |
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1928:
"Vanzetti's Last Statement: A Record by W.G.
Thompson," The Atlantic Monthly, February |
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1928:
Warning Against the “Roman Catholic Party”
- Catholicism and the 1928 Election (1/28) |
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1928-31:
Herbert Hoover Predicts Prosperity |
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1929:
Black Tuesday at the New York Stock Exchange - New York Times
headline page (10/31) |
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1929:
“The Civilizing Force of Birth Control” -
Margaret Sanger Becomes a Moderate |
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1929:
"The Bum as Con Artist-
An Undercover Account of the Great Depression" - published in The
Huntington Herald-Dispatch (3/1) |
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1929:
"Happy Days Are Here Again" - song lyrics by Jack Yellen and Milton
Ager |
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1929:
“How to Live on
Forty-six Cents a Day” - Paul Blanshard, Nation (5/15) |
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1929:
Inaugural Address of Herbert Hoover (3/4) |
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1929:
"Keep the Consumer Dissatisfied" - from Charles F. Kettering,
"Keep the Consumer Dissatisfied," Nation's Business,
17, no. 1
(1/1929), 30-31, 79 |
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1929:
Last Statement of Bartolomeo Vanzetti |
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1929:
“A Man’s Thanksgiving” - A Hymn to the God of Business |
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1929:
Reminiscences of the Great Depression |
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1929:
United State v. Schwimmer |
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1929:
"Wall Street in New Panic" - Decatur Evening Herald front
page (10/29) |
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1930:
The Immigrant Woman & Her Job - Caroline Manning |
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1931:
Report on the Enforcement of Prohibition Laws of the United States -
National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement: The
Wickersham Commission Report on Alcohol Prohibition (1/7) |
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1951:
Excerpts from The Great Crash: 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith |
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2006:
"The Margaret Sanger Song" - Gary Bachlund |
