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Women’s Rights
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“First of all, the right to vote went
to the aristocracy, then it was
extended in turn to the aliens, the
laboring men, the negroes, and the
Indians. Now the nonvoting classes
of the population are made up of
the criminally defective and the
women. Shall we tie together these
two and deny them both the right
to vote?”
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Hon. Luther W. Mott
March 3, 1915
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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President Wilson
September 18, 1918
“We have made partners of the
women in this war. Shall we admit
them only to a partnership of
suffering and sacrifice and toil and
not to a partnership of right?”
American Presidency Project
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Democratic Party Platform of 1916
“We recommend the extension of the
franchise to the women of the country by the
states upon the same terms as to men.”
Republican Party Platform of 1916
“The Republican party, reaffirming its faith in
government of the people, by the people, for the
people, as a measure of justice to one-half the adult
people of this country, favors the extension of the
suffrage to women, but recognizes the right of each
state to settle this question for itself.”
American Presidency Project
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…If you would properly interpret the women who is
proposing to measure arms with man in every field of
endeavor. You will see that, so far from being the
vanguard of freedom and progress she so proudly
proclaims herself, she is in reality the apostle of
decadence, and the herald of moral and social chaos.”
Article on the Biological and sociological aspects of the woman question. By Mrs. Annie Riley Hale.
Presented by Mr. McCumber. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing.
Serial Set Vol. No. 7125 Session Vol. No. 12
64th Congress, 2nd Session, S.Doc. 692
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19th Amendment
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“In 1876 portable libraries
were first introduced in the
Light-House Establishment
and furnished to all light
vessels and inaccessible
offshore light stations with
a selection of reading
materials.”
Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy
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“It is intended that each
library shall remain about
six months at a place,
when it will be exchanged
for another. By this means
the keepers will be
constantly supplied with
fresh and interesting
reading matter and be
made more contented with
the lonely life and routine
duties of these distant and
inaccessible stations.”
Annual Report of the Light-house Board to the Secretary of the
Treasury for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1876, page 5
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/
Great Captain
Island Light
Fairfield County,
Connecticut
Historic American
Buildings
Survey/Historic
American Engineering
Record (HABS/HAER)
“The object of my
invention is to project
rays of the search-light
used in lighthouses
vertically out into
space, instead of
horizontally outward
over the water, as is
now done, thereby
enabling the light to be
seen to a much greater
distance…”
Google patents
Patent number: 607780
Filing date: Oct 7, 1897
http://www.nps.gov/history/maritime/lt_index.htm
http://www.uscg.mil/history/h_lhindex.asp
“In many parts of
Pennsylvania
molasses was
scarcely known and
brown sugar was
generally used by
the poor; if,
therefore, the
same class of
persons in one part
of the country used
molasses for the
same purpose, for
which brown sugar
was used in other
parts, it was only
reasonable that
both should be
taxed in the same
proportion.”
Google Books searched for molasses and tax
The tariff controversy in the United States, 1789-1833 - Page 81
The invention is designed to obviate
the difficulty attending to the
pouring out of molasses, cream, or
other thick or viscid substances
from the ordinary cups, the former
adhering to the nozzles of the latter
and continually dripping, so as to
soil the table-linen and rendering
necessary, where cleanliness is
regarded, a platter or plate for the
cup to stand upon.
Google patents
Patent number: 42750
Issue date: May 17, 1864
Taxation
From Revolution to Reconstruction
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Library of Congress
The Pennsylvania Journal and
Weekly Advertiser, 1765 October 24.
American 18th century newspapers
from the American periodical series,
18th century.
US Census Bureau
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Census Bureau
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Remember
the Exxon
Valdez in
Alaska?
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill
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Lessons to be learned: the National Park Service administrative history and
assessment of the Exxon Valdez oil spill
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Evaluation of the condition of Prince William Sound shorelines following the Exxon
Valdez oil spill and subsequent shoreline treatment
(MOBIUS)
Effectiveness and regulatory issues in oil spill bioremediation: experiences with the
Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska
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