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Essay

The United States and the Caribbean, 1877–1920

Jason Colby

Between 1877 and 1920, the United States’ relationship with the Caribbean region underwent a profound change, which was closely tied to the transformation of the United States to an industrial and imperial power. Although the Civil...

History Now Essay

Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad

Glenn Willumson

Art, Geography, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

On a brisk May afternoon, in the high desert of Utah, the shrill tap of the telegraph key simultaneously announced the completion of North America’s first transcontinental railroad to cities across the United States. Immediately...

Appears in:

38 | The Joining of the Rails: The Transcontinental Railroad Winter 2014

History Now Essay

Douglass the Autobiographer

Robert S. Levine

Literature

Frederick Douglass published three autobiographies during his lifetime— Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881, 1892)—as...

Appears in:

50 | Frederick Douglass at 200 Winter 2018

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

to Henry Jackson Hunt

February 18, 1871

Lee, John F., 1813-1884

Requests information from Hunt regarding Robert E. Lee's heroic crossing of the pedregal (a lava field) during the Mexican American war. This inquiry is for Emily V. Mason, who is writing a pictorial school book on the life of Lee. Mentions...

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History Now Essay

With All Due Respect: Understanding Anti-Suffrage Women

Susan Goodier

Government and Civics

Although it may be hard to believe today, not everyone wanted women to have the right to vote. In fact, during the early nineteenth century, very few people thought women capable of political engagement of any kind. As the century...

Appears in:

56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020