America - still a young country by world standards - began as an experiment in self-government. This collection includes stories of America's people as they follow a path of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Image of a letter, written by President Hoover, explaing the cause of 1929's "market crash" and the Great Depression. Page 1 of 4 of the Hoover...
Letter from U.S. President Herbert Hoover to U.S. Senator Fess. Click on the image for a better view.
Letter from U.S. President Herbert Hoover to U.S. Senator Fess. Click on the image for a better view.
President Hoover's letter to U.S. Senator Fess. Click on the image for a better view.
This image, a page from the Congressional Record, reflects the final House debate on allowing slavery in the new state of Missouri.Although the words ...
Thomas Jefferson represented a slave named Samuel Howell in the man’s quest to gain freedom from his “master,” Wade Netherland. ...
In 1770, Thomas Jefferson - then a practicing lawyer (and a slave owner) in Virginia - represented a slave named Samuel Howell. Accepting the ca...
Thomas Jefferson represented a slave named Samuel Howell in the man’s quest to gain freedom from his “master,” Wade Netherland. ...
In April of 1770, Thomas Jefferson did his best to help free a slave whose mother was white. Jefferson's client was Samuel Howell. Without ch...
Bookcover image of Hunter Holmes McGuire: Stonewall Jackson's Doctor, by John W. Schildt.
This article, published in the Cleveland Advocate during November of 1918, discusses an interesting phenomenon occurring during the Spanish Flu Pandem...
Rev. Alexander Crummell was an African-American pastor who encouraged his people in the face of ongoing disappointments under U.S. law and in American...
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