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6 May 1987

Rogers, Joel Augustus, 1880-1966

"Remarks of Thurgood Marshall at the Annual Seminar of the San Fracisco Patent and Trademark Law Association in Maui, Hawaii"

One typewritten document entitled, "Remarks of Thurgood Marshall at the Annual Seminar of the San Fracisco Patent and Trademark Law Association in Maui, Hawaii" dated May 6, 1987. Details that the Constitution was not written with enslaved people in...

GLC09640.247

Lesson Plan

Lincoln and Presidential Power

9, 10, 11, 12

Introduction When Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States in 1860, his experience in politics and government included serving in the Illinois legislature and the US House of Representatives. He had also studied law...

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Women and the Revolution

Government and Civics

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Essay

Lincoln and Emancipation: Black Enfranchisement in 1863 Louisiana

Richard J. Carwardine

Government and Civics

As the president of a fractured nation, Abraham Lincoln faced no issue more perplexing than that of restoring the rebel states to the Union. Reconstruction during wartime was, he judged, "the greatest question ever presented to...

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Pamphlet

1860

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

The Address of... delivered at Cooper Institute [ed. by C.C. Nott & C. Brainerd]

Printed by George F. Nesbitt & Co. Edited by Charles C. Nott and Cephas Brainerd and issued by the Young Men's Republican Union of New York. This pamphlet is collateral to Lincoln's letter to Nott, taking him to task for taking liberties in editing...

GLC04436.02

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Lincoln and Presidential Power

Women and the Revolution

Lincoln and Emancipation: Black Enfranchisement in 1863 Louisiana

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