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Girls working in a box factory, Tampa FL, by Lewis Hine, ca. 1912 (NARA 523166)

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The Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900

When in 1873 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner entitled their co-authored novel The Gilded Age, they gave the late nineteenth century its popular name....

Resolutions for amending the Constitution . . . , 1800. (GLC00927.02)

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The Presidential Election of 1800: A Story of Crisis, Controversy, and Change

Nasty political mud-slinging. Campaign attacks...

Integrated class at Anacostia High School in Washington, DC, 1957. (Library of C

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A Local and National Story: The Civil Rights Movement in Postwar Washington, DC

The history of the Civil Rights Movement is the story of numerous grassroots campaigns loosely coordinated and assisted by a small number of national organizations. Every local...

Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865. (GLC06044)

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Lincoln’s Civil Religion

His long-time law...

Teddy Roosevelt in the Rough Riders, ca. 1898. (GLC07002.39)

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Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Progressive Reformer

Theodore Roosevelt’s interesting life often tempts biographers to write about him with the history left...

Emancipation Proclamation (Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, ca. 1863–64) (GLC05508.272)

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The Emancipation Proclamation: Bill of Lading or Ticket to Freedom?

Of all the speeches, letters, and state papers he had written, Abraham Lincoln...

Supreme Court Justices, ca. 1940. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. (GLC)

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FDR’s Court-Packing Plan: A Study in Irony

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The League of the Iroquois

No Native people affected the course of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history more than the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, of...

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“The Politics of the Future Are Social Politics”: Progressivism in International Perspective

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Walt Whitman, 1863 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

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Lincoln and Whitman

The relationship between Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln has long been the stuff of legend. According to one report, in 1857 Lincoln in his Springfield law office picked up a copy of Whitman’s poetry...