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Franklin D. Roosevelt, c. December 27, 1933. (Library of Congress Prints and Pho

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FDR’s First Inaugural Address

Several years ago when I was researching a very different subject at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York, I happened across several archival documents related to FDR’s first inaugural address. As a very famous presidential oration—arguably the most famous inaugural address ever delivered—FDR’s speech and the related documents were intriguing. How many drafts of the address survive? What do those drafts tell us about the strategy and tactics behind the speech? And how did the very perilous times affect the...

Street scene, Lower East Side, c. 1935-37. (Photograph by Arnold Eagle, Collecti

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Hard Times: The Great Depression in New York's Lower East Side

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Americans everywhere felt the terrible effects of the Great Depression, but in the cities, millions of people living in close quarters were thrown out of work and into even deeper poverty than they had known before the economy's collapse. These photographs, which appear in this issue of History Now courtesy of the Lower East Side Tenement...

George Washington to John Francis Mercer, September 9, 1786. (Gilder Lehrman

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George Washington on the abolition of slavery, 1786

Of the nine presidents who were slaveholders, only George Washington freed all his own...

he Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.... (London, 1794). (Lib

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Olaudah Equiano

Within ten years of the first North American settlements, Europeans began transporting captured Africans to the colonies as slaves. Imagine the thoughts and fears of an...

Abraham Lincoln, speech fragment on slavery and the American government, ca. 185

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Lincoln speech on slavery and the American Dream, 1858

Through the 1830s and 1840s, Abraham Lincoln’s primary political focus was on economic...

Joining of the rails at Promontory Point, photograph by Andrew J. Russell, May 1

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Official photograph from the “Golden Spike” Ceremony, 1869

This iconic photograph records the celebration marking...

John S. Mosby to Sam Chapman, July 25, 1897 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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John Mosby on the Silver Issue, 1895

In the late nineteenth century, Democrats and Republicans fought over whether the gold...

The protectors of our industries, Gillam ; Mayer Merkel & Ottmann lithograph, NY

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Anti-corporate cartoons, ca. 1900

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[Freedmen’s contract between Isham G. Bailey and freedmen Cooper Hughs and Charl

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Sharecropper contract, 1867

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Hooverville in Portland, Oregon, photograph by Arthur Rothstein, July 1936. (Lib

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Photograph of a “Hooverville,” 1936

“Hoovervilles” were temporary communities that America’s homeless...