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1876-1920:
Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1876-1920 - chart |
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1914:
"Telegram from
the Secretary of State to the American ambassador at London (12/26) |
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1914:
Telegram from Kaiser Wilhelm II to President Wilson (8/10) |
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1914:
"U. S.
Policy on Loans to the Belligerents" - Secretary of State William
Jennings Bryan to President Wilson (9/10) |
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1914:
U.S. Statement on the Status of Armed Merchant Vessels
(9/19) |
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1914:
Weeks v. United
States |
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1914-15: Political
Development of US Neutrality Policy - discussions between President
Wilson & Secretaries Bryan and Lansing |
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1914-15:
U.S. Policy on War Loans to Belligerents, 1914 -1915 |
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1914-15:
US
Protests Against Maritime Warfare - correspondence between William
Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State and Walter Hines Page, US
Ambassador to Great Britain |
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1915:
“This Is How It Was” - An American Nurse in France
During World War I |
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1915:
"American
Protest over the Sinking of the Lusitania" - William Jennings
Bryan |
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1915:
"Americanism and
the Foreign Born" - speech by Woodrow Wilson (5/10) |
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1915:
“Get the Rope!” Anti-German Violence in World War I-era Wisconsin |
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1915:
“I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier”- song lyrics |
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1915:
Jane Addams Critiques "The Birth of a Nation" in
The New York Evening Post (3/13) |
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1915:
Just Doing Our Job, Ma’am - Defending the State Police |
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1915:
"Preparedness: The Road to Universal Slaughter" - Emma Goldman
(excerpts) |
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1915:
President Wilson's Change of Attitude on War Loans
(8/26) |
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1915: President
Wilson's First Lusitania Note to Germany (5/13) |
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1915:
President Wilson's First Warning to the Germans (2/10) |
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1915:
President Wilson's Protest to the Germans (7/21) |
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1915:
President Wilson's Speech, "America Must be a Special
Example" (5/10) |
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1915:
President Wilson's Speech, "Peace Without Victory" |
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1915-16:
The House-Grey Memorandum, October 8 & 11, 1915 -
February 22, 1916 |
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1916:
“The Failure of German-Americanism” - Reinhold Niebuhr
Blames German Immigrants for Their Problems During WWI |
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1916: "Moral
substitute for war. International federation of nations under a
cosmopolitan constitution. How the nations of the world could protect
themselves against foreign invasion without the use of armies and
navies. Omaha, NE" - broadside |
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1916:
President Wilson on the Sussex Case (4/19) |
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1916-21:
Seven Letters from the Great Migration |
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1916:
"Strike Against War" -
speech by Helen Keller at Carnegie Hall |
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1916:
The War and the Workers by
Rosa Luxemburg (Junius Pamphlet) |
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1917:
Address of President Wilson to the Senate (1/22) |
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1917:
Address to the jury -
Emma Goldman, anarchist (7/9) |
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1917:
Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War Letter to
U.S. House Judiciary Committee (5/1) |
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1917:
“Don[’]t Have to Mister Every Little White Boy. . .” -
Black Migrants Write Home |
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1917:
"A Historian Quits" - Charles Beard Attacks World War I Hysteria
in The New Republic (12/29) |
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1917:
Housewives in Uniform - Domesticity as Military Duty |
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1917:
"I Want You for the U. S. Army!" - recruitment poster |
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1917:
“It Has No Popular Support” - Robert M. La Follette
Votes Against a Declaration of War |
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1917:
"Keep 'em going!" - Anti-German poster |
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1917:
Letters from the Great Migration |
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1917:
"One Hundred Million Soldiers" - speech by Frank Vanderlip |
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1917:
“The Negro and the War” - Reports in African-American
Newspapers |
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1917:
No Conscription League Manifesto |
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1917:
“Nobody Would Eat Kraut”- Lola Gamble Clyde on Anti-German Sentiment
in Idaho During World War I |
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1917:
Patriotic Housekeeping - Good Housekeeping
Recruits Kitchen Soldiers |
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1917:
Petition, Anti-Suffrage Party of New York - World War
I, ca. 1917 |
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1917:
President Wilson's War Message to Congress (4/2) |
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1917:
Randolph Bourne Vents His Animus Against War |
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1917:
"Remember! The Flag of Liberty! Support It!" (poster) |
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1917:
Robert "Fightin' Bob" LaFollette defends free speech in wartime -
Washington, DC (10/6) |
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1917:
“Sir I Will Thank You with All My Heart” - Seven
Letters from the Great Migration |
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1917:
Senator Norris Opposes U.S. Entry into the War (4/4) |
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1917:
Speech Against
Conscription And War by Emma Goldman, anarchist
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1917:
"Suffragists' Machine Perfected in All States Under Mrs. Catt's Rule,"
New York Times (4/29) |
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1917:
Victory on the Menu - Recipes and Rationing |
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1917:
War Is “a Blessing, Not a Curse” - The Case for Why We
Must Fight |
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1917:
“We Had to Be So Careful” - A German Farmer’s Recollections of
Anti-German Sentiment in World War I |
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1917:
“We Tho[ugh]t State Street Would Be Heaven Itself” -
Black Migrants Speak Out |
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1917:
The Zimmerman Note (1/19) |
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1917-18?:
"Be
Patriotic!" - Food Administration war poster |
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1917-18?:
"Eat
More!" - Food Administration war poster |
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1917-18:
Four Minute Men - Volunteer Speeches During World War I |
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1917-18:
"Help Her Carry On -- 'Ms. America Reports for Duty, Sit" - women's
recruitment poster |
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1917-18:
Letters Home
from Lloyd Maywood Staley to his wife Mary |
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1917-18:
Photographs of the 369th Infantry and African Americans
during World War I |
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1917-18?:
"Sow the
Seeds of Victory!" - Food Administration war poster |
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1917-18?:
Women Shipyard Workers - photo |
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1918:
“All the Colored Women Like This Work” - Black Workers
During World War I |
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1918:
The American's
Creed (4/3) |
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1918:
"Back
Me or Back Booze!" - campaign advertisement by the Ohio Dry Federation |
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1918:
"The
Brewers and the Saloons Take the Coal" - campaign advertisement by the
Ohio Dry Federation |
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1918:
Cartooning for Victory- World War I Instructions to
Artists - Committee on
Public Information (CPI), Bulletin for Cartoonists |
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1918:
Espionage Act (5/16) |
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1918:
Eugene V. Deb's Canton Speech |
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1918:
"The
Evil of Booze" - campaign advertisement by the Ohio Dry Federation |
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1918:
“Facts . . . Are the Only Arsenal” - Information and
the War Cyclopedia in World War I (Creel Commission) |
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1918:
Fourteen
Points - Woodrow Wilson |
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1918:
"I
Want Saloons in Ohio!" - campaign advertisement by the Ohio Dry
Federation |
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1918:
"If You Want to Fight--Join the Marines!" - war poster for women by
Howard Chandler Christy |
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1918:
"In
Flanders Field" - poem by Canadian Lt. Col. John McCrae |
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1918:
"Kaiser Wilhelm" poster - photograph |
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1918:
Letter from Capt. Harry Truman to his future wife Bess (11/11) |
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1918:
Letter to King George V from Teddy Roosevelt |
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1918:
“The March of the Psychos” - Measuring Intelligence in
the Army |
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1918:
The New York Times Reports
the End of the War (11/9-11) |
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1918:
“No Negroes Allowed” - Segregation at the Front in
World War I |
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1918:
“Orgies of Ruthlessness” - Bishop Quayle on German
Atrocities During World War I |
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1918:
The Origins of Puerto Rican Migration - U.S. Employment
Service Bulletin |
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1918:
Photographs From the Front |
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1918:
“Please, Let Me Put Him in a Macaroni Box” - The
Spanish Influenza of 1918 in Philadelphia |
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1918:
President Wilson's Address to Congress, Analyzing
German and Austrian Peace Utterances (2/11) |
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1918:
Puerto Rican Laborers during World War I - The
Deposition of Rafael Marchán |
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1918:
Sedition Act |
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1918:
Statement made
by American socialist Eugene V. Debs on September 18, 1918 upon being
convicted of sedition for speaking out against the First World War |
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1918:
"They'll be mighty proud in Dixie of their old black Joe" - song lyrics |
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1918:
"Ten
million fighting men needed" - Richard H. Edmonds, Editor
Manufacturers Record, Baltimore. MD 5/23 |
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1918:
"This
'made in Germany' war" - Richard H. Edmonds, Editor
Manufacturers Record, Baltimore MD 3/21 - broadside |
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1918:
"The
Truth About Personal Liberty" - campaign advertisement by the Ohio Dry
Federation |
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1918:
U.S. Participation in the Archangel Expedition (7/17) |
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1918-19:
Harry Truman's letters (25) during his stint as a Captain in the U. S.
Army |
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1918-19:
Hot Chocolate - A World War I “Canteen Girl” Writes
Home |
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1918-19:
“There Wasn’t a Mine Runnin’ a Lump O’ Coal” - A
Kentucky Coal Miner Remembers the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 |
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1919:
18th
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
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1919:
Abrams v. United
States |
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1919:
"Better Keep to the Old Channel" - political cartoon in the New
York American (8/2) |
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1919:
"Bomb-erang" - political cartoon from the Baltimore American
(6/21) |
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1919:
“Chicago and Its Eight Reasons” - Walter White
Considers the Causes of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot |
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1919:
Chicago Race Riots -
Chicago Tribune, July 30, 1919 front page |
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1919:
"Close the Gate!" - political cartoon in Chicago Tribune (7/5) |
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1919:
"Come unto Me, Ye Opprest!" - political cartoon in the Memphis
Commercial Appeal (7/5) |
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1919:
"Coming Ashore" - political cartoon in the Brooklyn Eagle
(7/12) |
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1919:
“A Crowd of Howling Negroes” - The Chicago Daily
Tribune Reports the Chicago Race Riot |
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1919:
"Curses--It Won't Explode in America" - political cartoon from the
George Matthew Adams Service (10/18) |
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1919:
Debs v. United
States |
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1919:
“Eight Hours a Day and Better Conditions”- Andrew Pido
Explains His Support for the 1919 Steel Strike |
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1919:
“An Eminently Safe Citizen”- Robert Benchley on “The
Making of a Red" in The Nation (March) |
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1919:
“Forty-Two Cents an Hour” for Twelve to Fourteen Hours a Day - George
Milkulvich Describes Work in the Clairton Mills after World War I |
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1919:
"Freedom of
Opinion? Sailor Wounds Pageant Spectator Disrespectful to the
Flag" - Washington Post (5/9) |
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1919:
"The
Gauntlet Flung Down" - political cartoon from the
Brooklyn Eagle (6/25) |
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1919:
“Ghastly Deeds of Race Rioters Told” - The Chicago
Defender Reports the Chicago Race Riot |
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1919:
"Ghosts of War" - political cartoon in The Brooklyn Eagle
(7/12) |
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1919:
"Give Me Those Railroads!: - political cartoon in the New York
World (8/16) |
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1919:
“God Knows More about Time Than President Wilson” -
Letters against Daylight Saving |
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1919:
“The Hand of God” in the League of Nations - President
Woodrow Wilson Presents the Treaty of Paris to the Senate (7/10) |
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1919:
"Hell Hath
No Fury Like a Woman Scorned!" - political cartoon in the New York
Tribune (6/21) |
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1919:
"How's My Credit?" - political cartoon in The New American
(7/12) |
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1919:
“I Glanced Up—The Statue of Liberty!” - Emma Goldman
Describes Her Deportation in the Era of the Red Scare |
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1919:
"If Capital and Labor Don't Pull Together" - political cartoon from
the Chicago Tribune (8/30) |
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1919:
"I'm a Bolshevist from the Bottom of My Feet to the Top of My
Head" -
Mother Jones |
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1919:
“Let Us Reason Together” - W. E. B. Du Bois Defends
Black Resistance |
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1919:
Letter from Capt. Harry S. Truman to his future wife Bess on returning
home from the war (4/24) |
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1919:
Lodge Reservations (Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.) |
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1919:
"The Making of a Red" - Robert Benchley in The Nation (3/15) |
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1919:
“The Men Seem To Be Pretty Well Satisfied”- John Anderson on the 1919
Steel Strike |
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1919:
"Merry Christmas!" - political cartoon in the New York World
(12/27) - prohibition |
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1919:
"The Missionary's Sons" - political cartoon from the Chicago
Tribune (10/18) |
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1919:
“Our Reason for Being”
- A. Philip Randolph in Messenger (August) |
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1919:
"A Nervous
Wreck" - political cartoon in the Literary Digest (7/5) |
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1919:
"The Patriotic American" - political cartoon from the Chicago
Tribune (6/28) |
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1919:
"Rear View" -
political cartoon in the Chicago Tribune |
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1919:
“Sailor Wounds Spectator Disrespectful of Flag”- The
Red Scare in The Washington Post (5/7) |
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1919:
"Say, Do I Look Sick?" - political cartoon from Farm Life
(7/15) |
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1919:
“Says Lax Conditions Caused Race Riots” - Chicago
Daily News and Carl Sandburg Report the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 |
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1919:
Schenck v. United States
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1919:
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.
blasts
President Wilson and the League of Nations, before Congress (8/12) |
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1919:
Socialist Cartoon and Poem - The Messenger (8/24) |
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1919:
"Striking Back!" - political cartoon in the New York Evening World
(9/27) |
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1919:
"This May be a Better Goddess than Liberty--But We'll Have to be
Shown" - political cartoon in The New York Herald (8/9) |
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1919:
"Treat 'Em Rough!" - political cartoon originally from the George
Matthew Adams Syndicate (8/16) |
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1919:
Treaty of
Versailles |
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1919:
"Turn
on the Hose" - political cartoon from the New York Evening Telegram
(8/30) |
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1919:
Various
Documents on the Chicago Race Riot
(additional documents) |
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1919:
Volstead Act |
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1919:
The Volstead Act and Related Prohibition Documents |
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1919:
“We Did Not Have Enough Money” - George Miller’s
Testimony about the 1919 Steel Strike |
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1919:
“We Do Not Understand the Foreigners” - John J. Martin Testifies on
the 1919 Steel Strike |
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1919:
“We Ought to Have the Right to Belong to the Union”-
Frank Smith Speaks on the 1919 Steel Strike |
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1919:
"Women's Votes" - political cartoon from the St. Louis Republic
(6/28) |
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1919:
Woodrow Wilson's "League of Nations" Speech
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1919:
"Workers!" - political cartoon in the New York Evening World
(12/27) |
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1919:
“They Are Mostly All Foreigners on Strike”- Joseph Fish Speaks on the
1919 Steel Strike |
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1919:
19th.
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
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1920:
"The Case
Against the 'Reds'" - A. Palmer Mitchell in Forum (1920),
63:173- 185 |
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1922:
Peace and Bread in Time of War - Jane Addams |
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1921:
US Peace Treaty with Austria (8/24) |
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1921:
US Peace Treaty with Germany (8/25) |
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1921:
US
Peace Treaty with Hungary (8/29) |
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1923:
"From pinafores to politics" - Mrs. J. Borden Harriman
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1938:
"I Did My Bit for Democracy" - WWI veteran interviewed by a WPA worker |
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1938:
"Reminiscences of a Rebel" - interview of a conscientious objector to
a WPA workers during the 1930s |
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1939:
"En Ex-Soldier Remembers the War's End" - interview with a WWI veteran
by a WPA worker |
