Historical Documents: 1901-1950
July 16, 1901 -- The Evolution of Negro Leadership
by W. E. B. du Bois
December 3, 1901 -- First Annual Message
by Theodore Roosevelt
1903 -- The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 2: Of the Dawn of Freedom
by W. E. B. Du Bois
September, 1903 -- Excerpts from The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of Today
Chapter 1: Industrial Education for the Negro
by Booker T. Washington
Chapter 2: The Talented Tenth
br W. E. B. Du Bois
February 13, 1905 -- Lincoln and the Race Problem
by Theodore Roosevelt
March 4, 1905 -- Inaugural Address
by Theodore Roosevelt
1905 -- Lincoln
by S. Weir Mitchell
1907 -- Booker T. Washington as Ambassador and Spokesman
by Kelly Miller
August, 1907 -- Eugene V. Debs as an Orator
by Max Ehrmann
May 23, 1908 -- The Issue
by Eugene Debs
June, 1908 -- Eugene V. Debs, Incarnate Spirit of Revolt
by John Spargo
1909 -- 16th Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1909, ratified 1913
1912 -- Bull Moose Party
by C. Budd
1912 -- 17th Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1912, ratified 1913
1912 -- Excerpts from Book of Letters: How to Make the Best of Life vs. Woman Suffrage
by C. E. Tibbles
Chapter XXV: Busy Men Pay But Little Attention to Woman Suffrage
Chapter XXVII: Replies to Articles Published - Criminal Classes Often Control Politics
- Comparison of the Number of Men and Women in jail
Chapter XXX: The Battlefields of Life - Domestic Infelicity the Cause of Man's
Failure
Chapter XXXIII: Taxation Without Representation
Chapter XXXIV: Suffrage Given to the Negro - Excitement Caused By the Assassination of
President Lincoln
Chapter XXXV: You Gave the Right of Suffrage to the Negro - Why Not Give It to Us?
Chapter XXXVI: Woman a Part of Man - The Female Sex Dependent Upon the Male
Chapter XXXVII: Conclusion
1914 -- The New morality
by Paul Elmer More
1915 -- Why Women Should Vote
by Jane Addams
1915 -- Objections Answered
by Alice Stone Blackwell
1915 -- Do You Know?
by Carrie Chapman Catt
May 10, 1915 -- Americanism and the Foreign-Born
by Woodrow Wilson
1917 -- 18th Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1917, ratified 1919
January 8, 1918 -- Basis of a General Peace: Fourteen Points
by Woodrow Wilson
May 16, 1918 -- Espionage Act
Congress
June 16, 1918 -- Canton, Ohio Speech
by Eugene Debs
1918 -- Those Who Laugh at The Drunken Man
Anonymous
1919 -- 19th Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1919, ratified 1920
1926 -- Unratified amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1926, not ratified
1932 -- 20th Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1932, ratified 1933
March 4, 1933 -- First Inaugural Address
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
1933 -- 21st Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1933, ratified 1933
May 1, 1937 -- Neutrality Act
Joint resolution of Congress
Fall of 1939 -- Hitler and Stalin
Anonymous
August 14, 1941 -- Atlantic Charter
by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
December 8, 1941 -- A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
December 11, 1941 -- Recommendation to Declare War Against Germany
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
December 11, 1941 -- Declaration of War Against Germany
Joint resolution of Congress
December 11, 1941 -- Declaration of War Against Japan
Joint resolution of Congress
May 8, 1945 -- Declaration of Victory in Europe
by Harry S. Truman
March 12, 1947 -- Truman Doctrine
by Harry S. Truman
1947 -- 22nd Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1947, ratified 1951
April 9, 1949 -- North Atlantic Treaty
Treaty between the U.S. and European nations
February, 1950 -- Communists in Government Service
by Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, Sen. Lucas of Illinois, and Sen.
Lodge of Massachusetts
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