 |
late 19c:
Child Coal Mine Workers - photo |
 |
late 19c:
Tuskegee Institute - photo |
 |
1870-1985:
"Education Levels in the U. S." - chart |
 |
1872:
Bradwell v. Illinois |
 |
1873:
Speech After Being
Convicted Of Voting In The 1872 Presidential Election by Susan B.
Anthony |
 |
1873:
“We Sang
Rock of Ages”- Frances Willard Battles Alcohol in the late 19th
century |
 |
1874:
Petition from Susan B. Anthony to U.S. Congress (1/24) |
 |
1874:
"The
Temperance Crusade" - song, lyrics, and sheet music by C. K. Hawes |
 |
1875:
Minor vs. Happersett --
issue of women's suffrage |
 |
1876:
National Woman
Suffrage Association- "Declaration of Rights for Women" |
 |
1876-1920:
Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1876-1920 - chart |
 |
1877:
Petition for Woman Suffrage signed by Frederick
Douglass |
 |
1879:
Progress and Poverty
- Henry George (abridged version) |
 |
1879-1921:
Woman's Christian Temperance Union statistics - graph and chart |
 |
1881:
The Scholar in a Republic - Phi Beta Kappa Centennial Oration by
Wendell Philips |
 |
1885:
8th
Grade Final Exam from Salina, KS |
 |
1885:
Test for Admission to High School in Jersey City, NJ |
 |
1886:
Addresses Upon the Labor Question - Edward Atkinson |
 |
1886:
Applied Christianity: Moral Aspects of Social Questions -
Washington Gladden |
 |
1886:
A Christ-like Character - A Catholic Priest Champions Henry George |
 |
1886:
Throwing His Hat in the Ring - Henry George Runs for
Mayor (10/5) |
 |
1887:
More Logic, Less Feeling - Senator Vest Nixes Woman Suffrage |
 |
1890:
Banners of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
 |
1891:
Address of Francis E. Willard, president of the Woman's National
Council of the U. S. at its first triennial meeting in Washington, DC
(2/22-25) |
 |
1891:
“A Heritage of Scorn” - Frances Ellen Walkins Harper
Urges A Color-Blind Cause |
 |
1892:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton- "The Solitude of Self" |
 |
1892:
"The Subjective
Necessity for Social Settlements" - speech by Jane Addams
|
 |
1893:
"Autumn" - poem written by 13-year old Helen Keller |
 |
1893:
The Objective Value of a Social Settlements - Jane Addams |
 |
1893:
"State
committee Woman suffrage party. Headquarters, New York To the woman
suffrage congress World's fair, Chicago, Ill [regarding woman suffrage
in Wyoming.] New York, 8/7" - broadside |
 |
1893:
The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements - Jane
Addams |
 |
1893:
"Women in Politics" - Mrs. J. Ellen Foster |
 |
1894:
Class Versus Gender - Carrie Chapman Catt Taps
Middle-Class and Nativist Fears to Boost Women’s Causes |
 |
1894:
"Copy
of preamble and protest ... Brooklyn Auxiliary, New York State
association opposed to the extension of suffrage to women" - broadside |
 |
1894:
"Do
want want the vote? ... Issued by the National state association
opposed to woman suffrage" - broadside |
 |
1894:
"Some reasons why we oppose votes for women ... National Association
Opposed to Woman Suffrage" - broadside |
 |
1894:
"Who Wrote the Bible?" - Washington Gladden |
 |
1895:
"A Piece-Rate System" -
Frederick Winslow Taylor |
 |
1895:
"The
apotheosis of suffrage" - political cartoon on women's suffrage |
 |
1895:
Atlanta Compromise |
 |
1895:
"The Enemies of the Republic" - political cartoon on prohibition in
The Ram's Horn |
 |
1895:
"A Red Record:
Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings
in the United States, 1892-1893-1894" -
Ida B. Wells |
 |
1895:
"A Woman's Right
to Vote" - Amelia Bloomer |
 |
1896:
"Another Lear" -
speech by Jane Addams on the Pullman Strike (11/12) |
 |
1896:
"The Awakening of the Negro" - Booker T. Washington |
 |
1896:
"Building Up His Business" - political cartoon on liquor licensing in
The Ram's Horn |
 |
1896:
Democracy and Education - Booker T. Washington |
 |
1897:
Assorted Newspaper Articles / Editorials on Lynchings in Urbana, OH |
 |
1897:
"Dignity of Honest Toil- S.M. Jones Addresses the Good
Government Club" The Blade, 3/31 |
 |
1897:
"Municipal Reform (an editorial)" The Blade,
3/29 |
 |
1897:
"The Strivings of the Negro People" - W. E. B. Du Bois - Atlantic
Monthly (Aug.) |
 |
1898:
Strength in Numbers - Kelley on Women, Labor, and the
Power of the Ballot |
 |
1898:
"The Strenuous Life" - Theodore Roosevelt |
 |
1899:
Cummings v. Board of Education |
 |
1899:
"The Importance of Women's Influence in All Religious and Benevolent
Societies" - Rev. J. Frances Robinson |
 |
1899:
"Municipal Expansion" published in The Arena
June 1899, pp. 766-767 |
 |
1899:
The School and Society - John Dewey |
 |
early 20c?:
"A Racial
Hierarchy and Empire for Africans; African's Faith Must Be Confidence
in Self His Creed: One God, One Aim, One Destiny" - Marcus Garvey |
 |
early 20c?:
"Why Women Should Vote" - Alice Stone Blackwell |
 |
1900:
Carrie Chapman Catt- Acceptance of the Presidency of NAWSA |
 |
1900:
Lynch Law in America - Ida B. Wells
|
 |
1900:
"Signs of Progress Among the Negroes" - Booker T. Washington |
 |
1900:
The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses - Theodore
Roosevelt (full text) |
 |
1900:
"Women and the Alphabet" - a series of essays by Thomas Wentworth
Higginson
(entire text) |
 |
1901:
"The Evolution
of Negro Leadership" - speech by W. E. B. Du Bois (7/16) |
 |
1901:
George
H. White's Farewell to Congress (1/29) |
 |
1901:
Our Forests and National Parks - John Muir |
 |
1901:
"Speech That Prompted Murderous Assault on the President"- article in
the Chicago Daily Tribune (9/8) - comment on speech made by
Emma Goldman |
 |
1901:
Theodore Roosevelt on Conservation |
 |
1901:
Theodore Roosevelt on Trusts |
 |
1902:
"Of the Training of Black Men" - W. E. B. Du Bois in Atlantic Monthly
(Sept.) |
 |
1902:
Woman Suffrage - Susan B. Anthony |
 |
1903:
Belle Kearney speaks on "the race issue" at the National American
Woman Suffrage Association Convention, New Orleans, LA (3/26) |
 |
1903:
"Industrial
Education for the Negro" - Booker T. Washington (Sept.) |
 |
1903:
The Soul of Black Folk - W. E. B. DuBois (full text) |
 |
1903:
"The Talented
Tenth" - speech by W. E. B. Du Bois (Sept.) |
 |
1903:
W.E.B. DuBois, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others |
 |
1904:
The
History of the Standard Oil Company
-
Ida M. Tarbell (full text) |
 |
1904:
"Make
bank deposits safe" - reprinted from the Bankers' Magazine
(Nov.) |
 |
1904:
Northern Securities Company v. U. S. |
 |
1904:
"Roosevelt vs. Roosevelt" - broadside |
 |
1905:
The
Education of Henry Adams (full text) |
 |
1905:
Florence Kelley Speaks Out on Child Labor and Woman Suffrage,
Philadelphia, PA (7/22) |
 |
1905:
The Great American Fraud - Samuel Hopkins Adams |
 |
1905:
"A
Grim Warning against Patent Medicines" - poster in Collier's
Magazine |
 |
1905:
Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt |
 |
1905: The
Jungle
- Upton Sinclair (excerpt) |
 |
1905:
"Lincoln and
Race Problem" - speech by President Roosevelt to the Republican Club
of NYC (2/13) |
 |
1905:
Lochner v. New York
|
 |
1905:
"Man and the Earth" - Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
(entire text) |
 |
1905:
"Peace King, Teddy. The white slaves battle cry of freedom" - song
lyrics by Thomas W. Mizner, Detroit, MI (Sept.) - broadside |
 |
1905:
Stranger Than Fiction - The Reading Habits of Early
Twentieth-Century Working Women |
 |
1905:
Swift and Company v. United States |
 |
1905:
"The
Threat of Food and Drug Adulteration" |
 |
1906:
Antiquities
Act |
 |
1906:
"Ballot Necessary for Women" - Jane Addams |
 |
1906:
The Bitter Cry of Children - John Spargo
|
 |
1906:
Black
Leaders Criticize Theodore Roosevelt - The New York Times
(11/20) |
 |
1906:
Burke Act |
 |
1906:
"The
Condemned-Meat Industry" - Upton Sinclair
another excerpt from The Jungle |
 |
1906:
Letter from
Upton Sinclair to President Theodore Roosevelt (3/10) |
 |
1906:
"The Man
with the Muck Rake" - speech by Teddy Roosevelt (4/16) |
 |
1906:
Mary Church Terrell speaks to the United Women's Club, Washington, DC,
(10/10) |
 |
1906:
Naturalization Act |
 |
1906:
"Negro
Pastors Assail Roosevelt's Army Order--One Calls Him a Judas for
Dismissing Colored Troops" -
The New York Times (11/20) |
 |
1906:
The Niagara Movement's Address to the Country - W.E.B. Du Bois |
 |
1906:
Pure Food and Drug Act |
 |
1906:
"The Treason of the Senate" - David Graham Philips |
 |
1907:
The Conservation of Natural Resources - Theodore
Roosevelt |
 |
1907:
"The Dime Novel in American Life" - Charles M. Harvey |
 |
1907:
Jack London Looks at the “Simplified Language of
Socialism” |
 |
1907:
James D. Phelan
[Mayor of San Francisco] Explains the Graft Issues |
 |
1907:
Newer Ideals of Peace - Jane Addams |
 |
1907:
"To
the school children of the United States Arbor day (which means simply
"Tree Day") is now observed in every state in our Union - and mainly
in the schools ... Theodore Roosevelt. The White House, April 15" -
broadside |
 |
1908:
Christianity and the Social Crisis -
Walter Rauschenbusch
|
 |
1908:
"The Color Line in the North" - Ray Stannard Baker -
in The American Magazine vol. 65 (February 1908): 345-57 |
 |
1908:
Declaration of the Conservation Conference of Governors
|
 |
1908:
"The Issue" -
speech given by Eugene V. Debs on becoming the Socialist Party
presidential candidate |
 |
1908:
Kate Richards O’Hare’s Life as a Socialist Party
Organizer |
 |
1908:
The Lay of the Land - Dallas Lore Sharp
(entire text) |
 |
1908:
"The Negro's Struggle for Survival in the North" - Ray Stannard Baker
- in The American Mazgazine vol. LXV (March), pp. 473-485 |
 |
1908:
Prohibition Cartoon |
 |
1908:
"The
Tragedy of the Mulatto" - Ray Stannard Baker -
The American Magazine vol. 65 (April 1908): 582-98 |
 |
1908-9:
Photographs of Lewis Hine- Documentation of Child Labor |
 |
1909:
"Election Day" - political cartoon on women's suffrage |
 |
1909:
"The Heart of the Race Problem" - Quincy Ewing in The
Atlantic Monthly 103 (1909): 389-397 |
 |
1909:
Letter by Theodore Roosevelt to accompany the Congressional report on
providing an inventory of the nation's natural resources |
 |
1909:
Lyman Abbott on President Roosevelt |
 |
1909:
The Necessity of Conserving Our Resources - speech by
J.N. Teal, Chairman of the Oregon Conservation Commission |
 |
1909:
"Onward Temperance Soldiers!" - song and lyrics |
 |
1909:
Platform Adopted by the National Negro Committee |
 |
1909:
"President
Roosevelt's Popularity" - Harry Thurston Peck |
 |
1909:
The Promise of American Life - Herbert Croly |
 |
1909:
Report of the National Conservation Commission on the inventorying of
the nation's natural resources |
 |
1909:
"Should a Minority Rule?" - The Remonstrance, Jan. edition |
 |
1909:
Speech by Samuel Gompers at Cooper Union |
 |
1909:
The Spirit of
Youth and the City Streets - Jane Addams |
 |
1910:
The Fight for Conservation - Gifford Pinchot
(entire text) |
 |
1910:
The Growth of Democracy in America
- William Allen White |
 |
1910:
James H. Patten, Chairman of the National Legislative Committee
of the American Purity Federation, Testimony Before Congress |
 |
1910:
"Justice. Equality. Why women want to vote. Women are citizens, and
wish to do their civic duty ... National American woman suffrage
association. Headquarters: 505 Fifth Ave, NY" - broadside
(image) |
 |
1910:
"Negro Suffrage in a Democracy."
-
Ray Stannard Baker in The Atlantic Monthly 106 (1910):
612-619 |
 |
1910:
The New Nationalism - Teddy Roosevelt |
 |
1910:
Senator Owen Supports Women - Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science 35, Supplement (May) |
 |
1910:
Twenty Years at Hull House - Jane Addams |
 |
1910:
"Woman Suffrage" - Emma Goldman (excerpts) |
 |
1910:
"Women
in the home ... National American woman suffrage association" -
broadside |
 |
1911:
"141 Men and Girls Die in Waist Factory Fire; Trapped High Up in
Washington Place Building; Street Strewn with Bodies; Piles of Dead
Inside" - New York Times (3/26) |
 |
1911:
Birmingham Under the Commission Plan - Walker Percy |
 |
1911:
Conservation by Sanitation -
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
(entire text) |
 |
1911:
"Getting Out the Vote" - Helen M. Todd(entire
text) |
 |
1911:
"Hostile Employers See Yourselves As Others Know You" - excerpt by
Samuel Gompers on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire -
American Federationist
(May) |
 |
1911:
How Many Socialists Does It Take To Screw in a Light
Bulb - Finding Humor and Pathos in Class Struggle |
 |
1911:
"Patriotism--A Menace to Liberty" - Emma Goldman |
 |
1911:
Roosevelt, Congress, and the Panama Canal |
 |
1911:
The
Principles of Scientific Management - Frederick Taylor |
 |
1911:
Triangle Shirtwaist
Co. Fire article by W. G. Shepherd |
 |
1911:
"The Trusts, the People, and the Square Deal" - editorial by Theodore
Roosevelt from The Outlook (11/18) |
 |
1911:
When Racism Was Respectable - Franz Boas on “The
Instability of Human Types” |
 |
1911-1920:
Various
Documents on Women's Suffrage
(additional documents) |
 |
1912:
"Book of
Letters: How to Make the Best of Life vs. Woman Suffrage" - C. E.
Tibbles |
 |
1912:
Democratic Party Platform (excerpt)
(another source) |
 |
1912:
Eugene V. Debs Attacks “the Monstrous System” of
Capitalism |
 |
1912:
Headline
from the Times-Dispatch, (Richmond, Va.) - sinking of the
Titanic |
 |
1912:
“Dam Hetch Hetchy!” - John Muir Contests the
Hetch-Hetchy Dam |
 |
1912:
"Maniac
In Milwaukee Shoots Col. Roosevelt; He Ignores Wound, Speaks An Hour,
Goes To Hospital" - The New York Times (10/15) |
 |
1912:
Missed Manners - Wilson Lectures a Black Leader |
 |
1912:
National American Woman Suffrage Association, Mother's
Day Letter |
 |
1912:
Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism and the
Election of 1912 |
 |
1912:
Progressive Party Platform (excerpt) |
 |
1912:
Republican Party Platform (excerpt) |
 |
1912:
“The Socialist and The
Suffragist” - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Appeal to Reason,
(9/28) |
 |
1912:
Suffragists March in New York City (5/6) - photo |
 |
1912:
"Taft
Renominated by the Republican Convention; Roosevelt Named as Candidate
by Bolters Wilson Backs Bryan's Stand at Baltimore" - The New York
Times (6/23) |
 |
1912:
Teddy Roosevelt Speaks
during the 1912 Presidential Campaign (sound file) |
 |
1912:
Votes for Women a Practical Necessity |
 |
1912:
"Wilson
Wins--He Gets 409 Electoral Votes; Gets 187,902 in this State[NY];
Roosevelt, 107, Taft 15" - The New York Times - front page with full
text (11/6) |
 |
1912:
"Danger! Woman's Suffrage Would Double the Irresponsible Vote" -
women's suffrage poster |
 |
1912:
Woman Suffrage in States - broadside |
 |
1913:
16th
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
 |
1913:
17th
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
 |
1913:
"Booker
T. Washington" - poem by R. V. Randolph - broadside |
 |
1913:
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Remembers the Paterson Strike of 1913 |
 |
1913:
Federal Reserve Act |
 |
1913:
First Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson |
 |
1913:
Giving a Dam - Congress Debates Hetch Hetchy |
 |
1913:
“A Layman’s Views of
an Art Exhibition” - Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook (3/29) |
 |
1913:
MacColl and the Modern Spirit - the 1913 International Exhibit of
Modern Art |
 |
1913:
“More Work for Mother” - Scientific Management At Home |
 |
1913:
A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences - Robert La
Follette (full text of his autobiography) |
 |
1913:
Royal Cortissoz, art critic, critiques the Armory Show |
 |
1913:
Suffrage On Stage - Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the
Opposition |
 |
1913:
Women and Public Housekeeping - Jane Addams. Women
and
Public Housekeeping |
 |
1914:
Ten Sex Talks to
Girls - Dr. Irving Steinhardt |
 |
1914:
A Brief for the Palmer-Owen Child Labor Bill |
 |
1914:
Clayton
Anti-Trust Act |
 |
1914:
Federal
Trade Commission Act |
 |
1914:
Harrison Narcotic Act |
 |
1914:
"If I Were a Man" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
 |
1914:
Letters of a Woman Homesteader - Eleanor Pruitt Stewart |
 |
1914:
"Neutrality
and trade in contraband" - Department of State, 10/15 - broadside |
 |
1914:
"The New
Morality" - Paul Elmer More |
 |
1914:
“No Gods, No Masters” - Margaret Sanger on Birth
Control |
 |
1914:
"No
room for hate" - by Edgar A. Guest - broadside |
 |
1914:
Progressive Democracy - Herbert Croly |
 |
1914?:
"Progressive" Jingoism - Boston, World Peace Foundation - broadside |
 |
1914:
Smith-Lever Act |
 |
1914:
"The Woman Rebel" - first edition (Margaret Sanger) - March issue |
 |
1915:
"Do You Know?" -
pamphlet written by Carrie Chapman Catt on women's suffrage |
 |
1915:
"The Fundamental Principle of
a Republic" - Anna Howard Shaw, Suffrage Orator and Social Reformer
(6/21) |
 |
1915:
"A Glimpse behind the Mask of Prohibition" - Percy
Andreae in The Prohibition Movement in its
Broader Bearings upon Our Social, Commercial, and Religious Liberties |
 |
1915:
Guinn v. United States
|
 |
1915:
Mind Your Business! - One Woman’s Encounter with
Reformers |
 |
1915:
"Objections
Answered" - pamphlet written by Alice Stone Blackwell on women's
suffrage |
 |
1915:
"The
Rebel Girl" - song lyrics by Joe Hill |
 |
1915:
Report of the Vice Commission, Louisville, KY |
 |
1915:
"Solidarity Forever" - union song lyrics by Ralph Chaplin |
 |
1915:
Suffragist leader Anna Howard Shaw speaks on the "Fundamental
Principles of a Republic," Albany NY (6/21) |
 |
1915:
"Union Shop
vs. Non-Union Shop" - testimony by Clarence Darrow
before the
U.S. Senate's Commission on Industrial Relations |
 |
1915:
"Why Women
Should Vote" - pamphlet by Jane Addams |
 |
1916:
Democracy and Education
- John Dewey (full text) |
 |
1916:
"The Gold Brick Twins" - socialist pamphlet |
 |
1916:
Letter to the Press on Birth Control - Emma Goldman (2/11) |
 |
1916:
The Long Road of Woman's Memory - Jane Addams |
 |
1916:
“A Modern School” - Abraham Flexner Outlines
Progressive Education |
 |
1916:
President Woodrow Wilson- Address to the NAWSA
Convention of 1916 |
 |
1916:
Votes for Men (broadside) |
 |
1916-18:
Letters of Black Migrants in the Chicago Defender |
 |
1917:
"The blue book"; woman suffrage, history, arguments and results,
edited by Frances M. Bjrkman and Annie G. Porritt
(entire text) |
 |
1917:
Buchanan v.
Warley |
 |
1917:
Letters from the Great Migration |
 |
1917:
Second Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson |
 |
1917:
Smith-Hughes Act |
 |
1918:
The
Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (full text) |
 |
1918:
“Learning on the Piece-Rate Plan” - Economist Thorstein
Veblen Attacks the Commercialization of Knowledge |
 |
1918:
“The Project Method”- Child-Centeredness in Progressive
Education |
 |
1919:
"Liquor
Cooties" - political cartoon on temperance in The American
(1/11) |
 |
1919:
Photo
of Suffragist with "Kaiser Wilson" Poster (11/19) |
 |
1919:
Volstead Act |
 |
1920:
UNIA Declaration of
Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, New York (8/13) |
 |
1934:
Description of Robert La Follette - from John R.
Commons, Myself |