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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:
An Assortment of Song Lyrics from the Era |
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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:
“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:
The
Economic Consequences of the Peace - John Maynard Keynes |
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1920:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
Speaking of those who fell in battle |
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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:
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:
“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:
"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, Campaign Speech at Boston |
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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:
“Defending Greenwood”- A Survivor Recalls
the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 |
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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:
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:
Immigration Act |
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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:
Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom, "Manifesto on Disarmament" |
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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:
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:
"You and Your Laundry"
- pamphlet by Christine Frederick |
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1923:
Automobile Advertisements - from Collier's Magazine |
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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
Report |
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1923:
U.S. v. Bhagat Singh
Thind |
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1924:
"Authority and Religious Liberty" Speech - Calvin Coolidge |
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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:
Comprehensive Immigration Act |
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1924:
Covenant of
the League of Nations |
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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 calls for a return to Africa - New York (8/1) |
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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, n.d. [1925]) |
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1925:
“The Ancient Days Have Not Departed” - Calvin Coolidge
on the Spirituality of Commerce |
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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:
Fighting to Death for the Bible - William Jennings Bryan |
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1925:
"Flapper
Jane" - article in The New Republic by Bruce Bliven (9/9) |
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1925:
Gitlow v. New York |
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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 Houses" - poem by Claude McKay |
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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:
Clarence Darrow pleads for the life of an African-American doctor,
Henry Sweet, accused of murder before an all-white jury - Detroit, MI
(5/19) |
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1926:
The Federal Council of Churches Members Testify Before Congress in
Support of the 18th Amendment |
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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 |
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1926:
Myers
v. United States |
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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:
Charles Lindbergh
speaks after his historic flight (sound file) |
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1927:
D.A.R.
"Dossier on Jane Addams" |
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1927:
Daughters
of the American Revolution, "Doubtful Speakers" |
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1927:
"Direct
Democracy" - speech given by Martin Willie Littleton
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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:
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:
“I Will Not Be Influenced in Appointments”
- Al Smith Accepts the Nomination for President |
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1928:
New York 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 Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange -
New York Times
headline page (10/25) |
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1929:
“The Civilizing Force of Birth Control” -
Margaret Sanger Becomes a Moderate |
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1929:
The Crash Worsens - New York Times (10/29) |
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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 |
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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:
Newspaper
headlines on the growing economic crisis from 7/3 to 11/23 - NY
Times |
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1929:
Newspaper headlines on Black Thursday and Friday - NY Times |
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1929:
Reminiscences of the Great Depression |
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1929:
United State v. Schwimmer |
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1930:
The Immigrant Woman & Her Job - Carol Manning |
