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When the Tennessee legislature considered the 19th Amendment, in August of 1920, the vote was even more important than it seemed. How Tennessee ...
TESTIMONY OF FIRST LT. JOSEPH LOCKARD, SIGNAL CORPS, UNITED STATES ARMY (The witness was sworn by the Recorder and advised of his rights under Artic...
STATEMENT OF SERGEANT GEORGE E. ELLIOTT, HEADQUARTERS COMPANY, STATION COMPLEMENT; CAMP LEE, VA. (The witness was sworn by the Recorder and advised ...
John Newton commanded a ship - The African - in the summer of 1752. It was a slave ship, with 250 slaves aboard. This image, from the Cowper &a...
Image of the published poem The Branded Hand by John Greenleaf Whittier. Click on the image for a better view.
Bookcover image of Civil War In Photographs, by William C. Davis.
This book features the paintings of Mort Kunstler with text by Professor James I. Robertson, Jr. Both men are American Civil-War specialists.
Prior to his election as President of the United States, Herbert Hoover was the U.S. Food Administrator. This image depicts Hoover's food conser...
America's federal government passed a law requiring people to help "owners" recover "their" escaped slaves. It was called The Fugitive Slave Law...
Image of a pamphlet called General Observations for the Plantation of New England, written by John Winthrop in 1629. Click on the image for a better ...
Bookcover image of The Great Raid, by William B. Breuer.
During their "Corps of Discovery" mission, Lewis and Clark kept a record of the expedition. Their journals have been assembled into book form fo...
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