History Resources

An African American protests the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850

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Economics

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Albert Einstein on the McCarthy hearings and the Fifth Amendment, 1953

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Government and Civics

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George Wallace on segregation, 1964

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Government and Civics

George Washington discusses Shays’ Rebellion and the upcoming Constitutional Convention, 1787

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Enslaved Children of New Orleans, 1863

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The Fifteenth Amendment, 1870

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Government and Civics

Speech in favor of the Twelfth Amendment, 1803

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Abstinence pledge card, 1842

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A Mirror for the Intemperate, ca. 1830

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Government and Civics

Horace Greeley on a woman’s reform newspaper, 1851

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