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The assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963

Government and Civics

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On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas. This Dow Jones News Service ticker tape tells the story of that day as it happened. The fifteen sheets span the entire day of the...

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George Washington on attending church, 1762

Economics, Religion and Philosophy, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

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In 1762, Virginia planter and future president George Washington, just thirty years old, had reason for optimism. He had inherited Mount Vernon a decade earlier, and it had prospered under his management; plus he had married Martha...

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Landing of Columbus, 1492

Geography, World History

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This engraving depicts Columbus’s first landing in the New World, on the island he called San Salvador, on October 12, 1492. Columbus is surrounded by his men on the beach. Discussing the landing in his journal, Columbus wrote that he...

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De Soto's discovery of the Mississippi, 1541

Art, Geography, World History

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In 1539, Hernando de Soto led the first major European expedition into the interior of the southeastern North America, an area then known as La Florida. De Soto landed near Tampa Bay, Florida, with more than 600 men, and hoped to find...

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Landing of Henrick Hudson, 1609

Geography

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In 1609, Henry Hudson was chosen by the Dutch East India Company to search for a passage to Asia. In September of that year, Hudson landed on the shores of the river that would be named for him and claimed the lands along it for the...

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President Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, 1861

Government and Civics

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On March 4, 1861, the day Abraham Lincoln was first sworn into office as President of the United States, the Chicago Tribune printed this special pamphlet of his First Inaugural Address. In the address, the new president appealed to...

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The Union Is Dissolved!, 1860

Government and Civics

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The election of Abraham Lincoln as the sixteenth president of the United States in November 1860 led to the eventual secession of eleven slave-holding states and the formation of the Confederacy. Convinced that the federal government...

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The "House Divided" Speech, ca. 1857–1858

Government and Civics

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By 1850, the extension of slavery into the new territories won through the Mexican-American War of 1846–1848 provided a testing ground for competing visions of America. The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 and the Kansas...

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The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863

Government and Civics

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The Emancipation Proclamation was shaped by both pragmatic considerations and Lincoln’s deeply held, lifelong hatred of slavery. It was timed, after the Union victory at Antietam, to strike a military blow against the South’s economic...

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President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, 1865

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Just 701 words long, Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address took only six or seven minutes to deliver, yet contains many of the most memorable phrases in American political oratory. The speech contained neither gloating nor rejoicing....

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90,945 items

The assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963

George Washington on attending church, 1762

Landing of Columbus, 1492

De Soto's discovery of the Mississippi, 1541

Landing of Henrick Hudson, 1609

President Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, 1861

The Union Is Dissolved!, 1860

The "House Divided" Speech, ca. 1857–1858

The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863

President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, 1865

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