Historical Documents: 1851-1900
July 5, 1852 -- What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
by Frederick Douglass
1857 -- Dred Scott v. Sandford
Supreme Court case
1857 -- The American Mind and the Traits of Webster, Clay and Calhoun
by Edwin P. Whipple
February 27, 1860 -- Cooper Institute Address
by Abraham Lincoln
1860 -- A Plea for Free Speech in Boston
by Frederick Douglass
1860 -- Constitution of the Confederate States of America
February 18, 1861 -- Inaugural Address
by Jefferson Davis
March 4, 1861 -- First Inaugural Address
by Abraham Lincoln
1861 -- Unratified amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1861, signed by Lincoln, not ratified
December 7, 1861 -- The Confederate Flag
Anonymous
April 23, 1862 -- The Stars and Stripes
Anonymous
May 20, 1862 -- Homestead Act
Congress
1862 -- The Flag of Secession
Anonymous
September 22, 1862 -- Emancipation Proclamation
by Abraham Lincoln
May 12, 1863 -- A Night Battle, Over a Week Since -- Unnamed Remains the Bravest Soldier
by Walt Whitman
November 19, 1863 -- Gettysburg Address
by Abraham Lincoln
November 24, 1863 -- Formation of the American Anti-Slavery Society
by John G. Whittier
March 4, 1865 -- Second Inaugural Address
by Abraham Lincoln
April 4, 1865 -- The Burning of Columbia, South Carolina
by General William T. Sherman
April 9, 1865 -- Surrender of General Lee at Appomattox
Letters by Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
April 14, 1865 -- The Governing Passion of My Soul
by William Garrison
1865 -- 13th Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1865, ratified 1865
1865 -- 14th Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1866, ratified 1868
1869 -- 15th Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1869, ratified 1870
1871 -- The Brains that Achieved the Tammany Victory at the Rochester Democratic Convention, Harper's Weekly cartoon
by Thomas Nast
1872 -- The Man with the (Carpet) Bags, Puck magazine cartoon
Anonymous
1874 -- The Anti-Slavery Convention of 1833
by John G. Whittier
Late 1800s -- The Sunny Side of Life
by James Hedley
Late 1800s -- Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley
by (Confederate) General John Daniel Imboden
Late 1800s -- Jim Crow Laws
Anonymous
Late 1800s -- Silver Blind
Anonymous
January 28, 1877 -- In Memory of Thomas Paine
by Walt Whitman
1880 -- Untitled Harper's Weekly cartoon
by Thomas Nast
May 6, 1882 -- Chinese Exclusion Act
Congress
December 3, 1883 -- American Anti-Slavery Society Anniversary
by John G. Whittier
December 22, 1886 -- The New South
by Henry W. Grady
September 22, 1890 -- The Message of Jesus to Men of Wealth
by George D. Herron
April 7, 1891 -- Hampton Institute Address
by Chauncey Depew
Summer of 1892 -- The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements
by Jane Adams
1895 -- Woman's Right to the Ballot
by Amelia Bloomer
September, 1895 -- Lincoln, 1860 - Debs, 1894
by John Swinton
1896 -- Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court case
July 9, 1896 -- Cross of Gold
by William Jennings Bryan
1896 -- A Modern Lear
by Jane Addams
January, 1897 -- How Not To Help Our Poorer Brother
by Theodore Roosevelt
April 11, 1898 -- War Message
by William McKinley
September 16, 1898 -- March of the Flag
by Albert J. Beveridge
November 1, 1898 -- The Aims of Zionism
by Richard Gottheil
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