18th Century and Earlier
18th Century-- Benjamin Franklin's support for the Albany Plan with "Join or Die" image
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http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/creatingtheus/DeclarationofIndependence/RevolutionoftheMind/ExhibitO
bjects/JoinorDie.aspx
Correspondence from Abigail Adams to John Adams (March 31, 1776).
Source: the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Adams Family Papers Electronic Archive.
Abigail, showing her disdain for slavery and strong moral standing, questions the Virginia delegation’s
“passion for liberty” because of their status as slaveholders. While she finds “great merit [in the State]
for having produced a Washington”, she casts doubt upon Virginians’ democratic credentials, calling
their Gentry “Lords” and the commoners “vassals”.
http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/cfm/doc.cfm?id=L17760331aa
http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/
18th Century Document - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine
http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/singlehtml.htm
18th Century Primary Source: Paule Revere's engraving of the Boston
> Massacre: http://www.bostonmassacre.net/gravure_large.htm
Pre-1800's: Virgina Slave Laws:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=217
Letter from Columbus to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus2.html
www.constitution.org/primarysources/olive.html
-The Olive Branch Petition (1774)
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_zoom_2.html
My first letter is an 1777 letter from Lucy
Knox to her husband General Henry Knox.
http://gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/chapter2/lucy.pdf
Transcript of the Virginia Plan (Original is hard to read since it's an
image). Outlines what will become the U.S. Constitution.
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/print_friendly.php?page=transcript&doc=7&title=Transcript+of+Virginia
+Plan+%281787%29
Pre- 1800 – Conflicts between Native Americans and Settlers
Primary Document: King Philip's War Report, 1685, by Edward Randolph
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=206
Defense of Slavery in Virginia (1757)
Reverend Peter Fontaine's defense of slavery in Virginia
Website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h6.html
A contemporary article from
forensic archaeology on the time of the first human migrations to the
western hemisphere, the idea being to show debate in history:
http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/archaeolog/2008/09/pre_siberian_human_migration_t.html
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
19th Century
19th Century-- The Emancipation Proclamation
> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almgall.html
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Source: The National Archives “Our Documents” website.
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=23&page=pdf
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&
19th Century Documents - War of 1812 (I use multiple documents to discuss views of the government
and Indians preceding the war)
Tecumseh's "Address to William Henry Harrison" taken from:
www. americanrhetoric.com/speeches/nativeamericans/chieftecumseh.htm
William Eustis, Secretary of War, "To the Indians" taken from:
http://clarke.cmich.edu/nativeamericans/mphc/documentsofwarof1812/williams601.htm
19th Century Primary Source: Massachussetts Black Corporal to the
> President: http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/gooding.htm
19th Century: Lincoln's speech against Mexican-American War:
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=949
A Slave Story, Anonymous, June 1857 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html
www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/emancipation.html
-Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=36
My second letter is from a soldier (Daniel Hill) in the Mexican-American War
to a friend back home.
http://gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/chapter4/Hill.pdf
19th Century Poetry
American Representative Poetry
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-
idx?c=moa&cc=moa&idno=afy7796.0001.001&q1=American+poetry&frm=frameset&view=image&seq=
19&size=100
19th Century - Slavery and Repatriation
Primary Document: Order of Seizure, *U.S. v. Negro Slave Ben*, July 5, 1816
Use: Discuss slavery and issues of repatriation
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/documented-rights/exhibit/section1/detail/order-for-seizure.html
Cotton and Slaves (1860) Map concentrations
These maps from the 1860 census show that the regions of the South in which cotton was produced
(above map) did not always correspond with the regions with the highest slave populations (lower map),
undermining the argument that slavery persisted in the South only because of the peculiar necessities of
cotton growing.
Web address: http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/beyond-the-textbook/23912
This first one is a whole lesson plan on race and immigration as
regards the Irish in the 19th century, based on primary documents (by the
way, this website is awesome):
http://chnm.gmu.edu/exploring/19thcentury/alienmenace/index.php
20th Century
20th Century-- Dorthea Lange's photograph of the Migrant Mother with Children
> http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b41800/
“Books are Weapons in the War of Ideas” (1942)
Source: Library of Congress prints and photographs online catalog
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96502725/
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
20th Century Document - Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points"
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/wilson14.asp
20th Century Primary Source: Vietnam, Anti-War Protest Song Lyrics:
> http://www.countryjoe.com/feelmus.htm
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20th Century: A Digital National Security Archives (DNSA) document.
"Potentially Embarrassing CIA Activities":
http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.882004&res_dat=xri:dnsa&rft_dat=xri:dnsa:fjarticle:FJ00034
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project
1936-1940. You can choose to search by state, I chose Illinois and
there was a short interesting manuscript from a negro packing worker
Jim Cole, 1939
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpahome.html
http://memory.loc.gov/phpdata/pageturner.php?type=&agg=ppmsca&item=19155&seq=3
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/documents/index.php?pagen
umber=1&documentdate=1945-06-18&documentid=21&studycollectionid=abomb
-Documents from meetings Truman held discussion the use of the Atomic Bomb.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/infamy1.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/infamy2.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/infamy3.jpg
My third letter is from a solider (Laurence Hopkins) serving in France in
WWI to his mother.
http://gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/chapter2/laurence.pdf
Letter written by Woody Guthrie on First Folk Songs
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/ampage?collId=afcwwg&fileName=030/030page.db&itemLink=D?afcwwgbib:19:./temp/~ammem_n
TMV
20th Century – Segregation and Civil Rights
Primary Document: *Judgment*: *Brown v. Board of Education*
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/brown-v-board/images/decision.jpg
Dr. King quotes on non-violent resistance
Web address: Website: http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/resources/
article/king_quotes_on_war_and_peace/