| 1810: |
"American
Shakers" broadside (early 1800s)
Census
Data for the Year 1810
Fletcher
v. Peck
Tecumseh
and Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, Speeches |
| 1811: |
The
Debate over War in Congress
Journal
of a Voyage Up the Mississippi River - Henry Marie Brackenridge |
| 1812: |
The
American Debate Over the War of 1812
Documents for
Debate on Going to War in 1812
Economic
Nationalism and Sectionalism -
"Report of Commissioners
Appointed
to Survey a Route for a Canal and Road Connection
Between
the James and Ohio Rivers" Chief Justice John Marshall,
chairman
(12/26)
Eli Whitney's
Patent for the Cotton Gin
"Gerrymander"
- an anonymous political cartoon
James
Madison Speech to a Joint Session of Congress
Journal
of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri - John
C.
Luttig
Songs
and Lyrics of the War of 1812
U.
S. v. Hudson and Goodwin
The War
of 1812 - assorted documents of the war |
| 1813: |
"Naval Battle
Between the United States and the Macedonian on
October
30, 1812- a painting by Thomas Birch
Second
Inaugural Address of James Madison |
| 1814: |
Amendments
to the Constitution as Proposed by the Hartford
Convention
Star
Spangled Banner Lyrics
The
Treaty of Ghent |
| 1815: |
A
Convention to Regulate the Commerce - Britain & the U. S.
Excerpt
from the Memoirs of Susan Mansfield Huntington
Jackson's
letter describing the Battle of New Orleans
Memoirs
of Susan Mansfield Huntington of MA - excerpts
Request of a
Free Black Person to Remain in Virginia |
| 1816: |
The
Barbary Treaties
John
Bigelow, "Inaugural Address"
Letter
from Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer regarding the
Dartmouth
College
case (7/21)
"The
Western Country," Extracts from Letters Published in
Niles'
Weekly Register |
| 1817: |
Excerpt
from the Cotton Book of G. W. Lovelace
First
Inaugural Address of James Monroe
Meeting of
Free People of Color of Richmond, Virginia
Opening
of the New York to Liverpool Packet Line
Rush-Bagot
Agreement |
| 1818: |
"About
the Banks" - Hezekiah Niles in Niles' Weekly Register (11/7)
Building
of the Erie Canal
- William H. Seward (1818-1825)
John
Taylor, Arator: Being a Series of Agricultural Essays,
Practical
and Political -
The Future of the Union
Observations
on the Real Rights of Women
- Hannah
Crocker
- excerpts |
| 1819: |
Adams-Onis
Treaty
American
State Papers, Military Affairs, "Description of
the
United States Armory at Springfield, Massachusetts"
Dartmouth
College v. Woodward
Extract
from the Albany Daily Advertiser
"Improving
Female Education" - Emma Willard
McCulloch
v. Maryland
Tallmadge's
Speech to Congress |
| 1820: |
Census
Data for the Year 1820
Charles
Pickney's Speech to Congress
Compromise
of 1820 - Tallmadge Amendment
Compromise
of 1820 - Taylor's Amendment
Compromise
of 1820 - Thomas's Amendment
Cotton
Boom in Alabama and Mississippi
Hile
v. Webb - divorce case regarding equity (Rhode Island
Supreme
Court)
James
Madison - in his own word - excerpts from 1820s
to
his death
John
Quincy Adams & John C. Calhoun Discuss the
Compromise
of 1820
The
Missouri Compromise
- James G. Blaine
Missouri
Enabling Act
Record
of the US Senate Debate on the Admission of MO
"Sectionalism
and the Missouri Compromise" - Thomas
Jefferson
to John Holmes, 22 April 1820 - Writings of Thomas
Jefferson
(1854), volume 7
Taylor
Amendment (1/26)
Thomas
Amendment (2/17) |
| 1821: |
Cohens
v. Virginia
Second
Inaugural Address of James Monroe
Warning
Against the Search for "Monsters to Destroy" - John Quincy Adams |
| 1822: |
Denmark
Vesey brought before the Court
Exposition
on Slavery
- Richard Furman
"Reflections,
Occasioned by the late Disturbances in Charleston " (11/4) |
| 1823: |
British
Foreign Secretary George Canning's Overture for a Joint Declaration
with
the United States on the Spanish Colonies in America
John
Quincy Adams's Account of the Cabinet Meeting of 11/7
Joshua
& Sally Wilson Letters to George Wilson
Monroe
Doctrine
Monroe
Letter to Jefferson Seeking Foreign Policy Advice
"The
Morality of Manufactures" - Nile's Weekly Register
Thomas
Jefferson on the Monroe Doctrine (10/24) |
| 1824: |
Gibbons
v. Ogden
Gottfried
Duden - Letters - Frontier and Wilderness Life
(1824-1825)
Notices
& Advertisements from the New York Evening Post |
| 1825: |
"Christian
Motherhood" etching
First
Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adams
Peter
Skene Ogden's Journal of His Journey into Utah
Thomas
Jefferson's Letter to Henry Lee
Various
Documents on Robert Owen's New Harmony
community
(1825-26)
Womens'
Fashions: 1825-1840 - various pictures |
| 1826: |
"The Common Schools of
Massachusetts" - James G. Carter's
Essays
on Popular Education
Death
of Adams & Jefferson on the Same Day
- Thomas
H.
Benton
Description
of Levi Coffin's Underground Railroad station
Thomas
Jefferson's Letter to Roger C. Weightman
Treaty
between the United States and Hawaii (12/26) |
| 1827: |
Elias
Boudimott Proposes a Cherokee Newspaper
Freedom's
Journal
- first African American newspaper
(3/16/1827)
- excerpts |
| 1828: |
"Black
Charge" - political cartoon by Edward Williams Clay
The
Election of 1828 as Seen from New York City
Jim
Crow caricature
Lyman
Beecher - "Six Sermons on Intemperance"
SC's
Protest Against the Tariff of 1828 - John C. Calhoun's speech
Treaty
With the Potawatami |
| 1829: |
Daniel
Webster Anticipates Jackson's Arrival in Washington, D.C.
Executive
Order Regarding Military Pensions - Andrew Jackson
First
Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson
First State of the
Union Address - President Jackson
Jackson
Announces His Policy of Rotation in Office - speech
Letter from
Nicholas Biddle to Josiah Nichol (about govt. interference)
Margaret
Bayard Smith Describes the Inaugural Celebration
"The
Profession of a Woman" - Catherine Beecher
"The Return of Rip
Van Winkle" - painting by John Quidor
The
Rights of Man to Property! - Thomas Skidmore
Various
Documents on the Removal of the Cherokee Nation (1829-1838)
The Working Men's
Declaration of Independence - George H. Evans |
| 1830: |
"Address
to the Free People of Colour of these United States" - Richard
Allen
on behalf of the colored citizens of Philadelphia (9/20-24)
Census
Data for the Year 1830
Charles
Finney Recalls his Days in Oneida County, New York
Cherokee
Indian Removal Debate - U.S. Senate, April 15-17, 1830
Chicksaw
Treaty
"The
Georgia Gold Rush" - From the Niles' Weekly Register. XXXIX:
995
(10/9)
President
Jackson Reports on Indian Removal - speech to Congress
Indian
Removal Act
Jackson's
Veto of the Maysville Road Bill
Letter
from Nicholas Biddle to Samuel Smith about President Jackson's
message
of 1829
"Liberty
& Union, Now & Forever, One & Inseparable" speech -
Daniel
Webster
"Niagara Falls" -
painting by Thomas Cole
Preemption
& Homestead Acts (1830, 1841)
Proclamation
Regarding the Opening of United States Ports to British
Vessels
- Andrew Jackson
Rules
for Husbands and Wives -
Mathew Carey
Second
State of the Union Address - President Jackson
"Six
Essays on Education" - George Henry Evans (Essay VI)
Webster-Hayne
Debates
Workingman's
Party Platform |
| 1831: |
Cherokee
Nation v. Georgia
Democracy
in America by
de Tocqueville (full text)
Letter
to Nicholas Biddle from Henry Clay - advises Biddle not to seek
re-charter
Nat
Turner's "Confession"
Prophet
Joseph Smith Relays God's Message - speech
The Richmond
Enquirer
on Nat Turner's Rebellion (8/30/1831)
Schooling
in Early 19c America - American
Annals of Instruction
Third
State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Tocqueville
Appreciates American Political Participation (1831-1832)
Tocqueville
Witnesses American Religious Enthusiasm (1831-1832)
Treasury
report giving praise to the National Bank
William
Lloyd Garrison from The Liberator |
| 1832: |
"An
Address to the Working Men of New England" - Seth Luther (pamphlet
excerpt)
African
Americans Convene For Their Second National Convention
Andrew
Jackson's "Proclamation to the People of SC on Nullification"
Andrew
Jackson's Veto of the Bank Bill
Autobiography
of John Ball - Across the Plains to Oregon
"Buffalo
Bull-A Grand Pawnee Warrior" - painting by George Caitlin
Fourth
State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Henry
Clay's Speech on the Jackson Bank Veto
Letter from
Nicholas Biddle to Henry Clay on the effect of the Bank Veto
and
Biddle's faith in Henry Clay
Nathaniel
Wyeth's Journals of His Expeditions into the OR Country
(1832-1834)
New England Anti-Slavery
Society's Thoughts on Colonization
Peter
Osborne Speaks to a Crowd Celebrating American Independence,
(7/5)
Proclamation
Regarding Nullification (Dec. 10) - Andrew Jackson
South
Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
Worcester
v. Georgia |
| 1833: |
"Advice
to Politicians" - Davy Crockett
American
Anti-Slavery Society Constitution
Life
of Black Hawk
Calhoun's
Speech Against the Force Bill - Day 1 (2/15/1833)
Calhoun's
Speech Against the Force Bill - Day 2 (2/16/1833)
Fifth
State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Force
Bill
Henry
Clay on Political Power (1834, 1840)
James
Madison to Daniel Webster - "Right to Revolution" -
Writings
9:604-5
Letter
from Andrew Jackson to Martin Van Buren discussing the
nullification
crisis (1/13)
Message
to
the Senate and House Regarding South Carolina's
Nullification
Ordinance (1/16) - Andrew Jackson
Message
to the Senate Regarding South Carolina's Nullification
Ordinance
(1/22) - Andrew Jackson
Philadelphia
Declaration, National Anti-Slavery Society
Second
Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson
William
Sprague Describes Revivals |
| 1834: |
Burning of a Charleston
Ursuline Convent - Boston Evening
Transcript
(8/12/1834)
"Early
Habits of Industry" - The Mother's Magazine
"Kidnapping
a free Negro to be sold into slavery" - woodcut
"The Peaceable
Kingdom" - painting by Edward Hicks
Poem/Song
Lyrics of the Lowell Factory Girls (1834, 1836)
Sixth
State of the Union Address - President Jackson |
| 1835: |
The
Appeal to Moral Reform for Antebellum Northern
Women
- many docs. (1835-1841)
The
Activity of the Body Politic" - from Democracy in America
by
Alexis de Tocqueville
"The
Canal Boat", New England Magazine - Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Declaration
of the People of Texas (11/7)
The
Demand for a 10-Hour Work Day by Boston Artisans
First
Annual Report of the Female Moral Reform Society of the
City
of New York
"The
General Tendency of the Laws" - from Democracy in America
by
Alexis de Tocqueville
"Gentle Advice to
Teachers" - Jacob Abbot
Grand
Row at Tammany Hall, NY - Nile's Weekly Register
John
Jay Shipherd's Pastoral Letter
Nativism
- Samuel F. B. Morse
"Nature's
Wonderland" - painting by Thomas Doughty
Nicholas
Biddle - Commencement Address
Runaway
notice for Harriet Jacobs
Samuel
F. B. Morse's colored sketch of railway telegraph
Seventh
State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Society,
Manners, & Politics in America - Michel Chevalier
Sojourn
in the City of Amalgamation
- Oliver Bolokitten, Esq." (pseudonym)
"The
Sovereignty of the People" - from Democracy in America
by Alexis
de
Tocqueville
The
Treaty of New Echota (12/29)
Views on
the Commercialization of the Countryside
- Mary
Graham
Describes Life on a Massachusetts Farm, (1835-1844)
"What
a Revival of a Religion Is" - Charles Finney |
| 1836: |
An
Account of a Visitor to Lowell
"Appeal
to the Christian Women of the South" - Angelina Grimké
Eighth
State of the Union Address - President Jackson
The
Fateful Speculative Boom of 1836-1837
The
Harbinger -
Female Workers at Lowell, MA
Harriet
Robinson, Lowell Mill Girl - recollection of the strike of 1836
Cherokee
Letter Protesting the Treaty of Etocha
"Loom
and Spindle" - Harriet Robinson
Memorial
and Protest of the Cherokee Nation
Narrative
of the Late Riotous Proceedings Against the Liberty of the Press -
The
Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, Cincinnati
"A
Political Testament" - Andrew Jackson
Stephen
Austin - address delivered at Louisville
Texas
Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Velasco -
between the U. S. and Mexico
William
Travis' Letter From the Commandancy of the Alamo |
| 1837: |
"A
Subordinate Position in Society" - Catherine Beecher
"The
American Scholar" - Ralph Waldo Emerson - speech given to the Phi
Beta
Kappa Society at Harvard University
"The
Blessings of Slavery" - Anonymous Editorial in the New York
newspaper
Plaindealer (2/25/1837)
Catherine
Beecher Condemns Abolitionism
Charles
River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
"The
Christian's Harp" - Samuel Wakefield - revival song
"Concord
Hymn" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The
Democratic Review: An Introductory Statement of the Democratic
Principle:
- J. L. O'Sullivan
First
Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren
"I
never saw a busier place than Chicago …" - Harriet Martineau
"Outrage!"
- abolitionist handbill (2/27)
"Slavery:
A Positive Good" - John C. Calhoun (2/6)
Society,
Manners and Politics in the United States - Michel Chevalier
Ralph
Waldo Emerson on the American Scholar
"Slavery
Is a Positive Good" - John C. Calhoun |
| 1838: |
Angelina
Grimké Weld's speech at Pennsylvania Hall
Thoughts
on Miss S. M. Grimke's 'Duties of Woman,'" Advocate
of
Moral Reform
The
Break-Up of a Slave Family, GA
The
Democratic Principle - John L. O'Sullivan
"Just
Treatment of Licentious Men. Addressed to Christian Mothers,
Wives
Sisters, and Daughters" - Friend of Virtue
The
Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: Address Before the
Young
Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois - Abraham Lincoln (one
of
his earliest known speeches) |
| 1839: |
Constitution
of the Cherokee Nation (in Cherokee at the beginning with
the
English translation at mid-page)
"The
Effects of Intemperancy" - drawing
Excerpt
from "Essay Read at a monthly prayer meeting of an
auxiliary
Female Moral Reform Society," Advocate of Moral
Reform
(11/1)
"Manifest
Destiny" - John L. O'Sullivan
"Personal
Narratives" - Theodore Weld's American Slavery As It Is
Peleg
Sprague Campaigns for William Henry Harrison
Reverend
M'Ilvaine Denounces Intemperance
"Three
Hundred Dollars Reward"
- broadside issued by William K. Ish
and
Joseph L. Hawling to recover three slaves |
| 1840: |
1840
Presidential Election Campaign Song Lyrics
Ad
for the Harrison "Log Cabin & Cider" Campaign
An
American View of Mexican California - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Census
Data for the Year 1840
Daniel
O'Connell to Lucretia Mott, "With Reference to the Rejection
of
Female Delegates by the World's Convention in London" (6/20)
"Hints
to Young Ladies on an Important Subject," Advocate of Moral
Reform
(8/1)
Horace
Mann Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education
Immigration
by Place of Origin: 1840-1860 - chart
Letters
of John and Elizabeth Hodgdon
"The
Lowell Offering" main page of the factory newspaper
"Notions
of the Americans" - James Fennimore Cooper
Orestes
A. Brownson's speech on "Free Labor"
"Petitions
of the Catholics of America"
Railroad
Growth, 1840-1860 - chart
"Stop
That Barrel" - political cartoon on the 1840 election
The
"Tippecanoe & Tyler, Too" Campaign
- Horace Greeley |
| 1841: |
"A
Second Declaration of Independence…" - J. W. Goodrich
Arguments
of John Q. Adams Before the Supreme Court
(Amistad
Case)
Inaugural
Address of William Henry Harrison
James
Henry Hammond's Diaries - selections (1841-1842)
"A
Letter from Brook Farm" - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Letter
from Kale (of the Amistad) to John Quincy Adams
Letter
from Kinna (of the Amistad) to John Quincy Adams
New
Orleans Slave Auction
"Self-Reliance"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Song
of the Spinners" (Lowell Mill, MA)
The
Supreme Court Decision on the Amistad Case
Tabitha
Dreams of a Better Society - one of the Lowell Mill Girls
A Treatise on Domestic
Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at
Home
and at School -
Catherine E. Beecher
"What is it, to
'Cease from Man?'" Editorial, Advocate of Moral
Reform
(10/1) |
| 1842: |
American
Notes - Charles
Dickens (Massachusetts Asylum for
the
Blind; Meeting Laura Bridgeman)
"Have
You Seen Sam?" - nativist poster from The Dollar
Weekly
Times
Lecture on
Transcendentalism - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
from (and About) Horace Greeley (1840s-1870s)
Temperance
Address - Abraham Lincoln (Springfield Washington
Temperance
Society
Webster-Ashburton
Treaty |
| 1843: |
An
Address to the Slaves of the United States - Henry Garnet -
"A
Call to Rebellion"
Anti-Slavery
and Anti-Abolitionist Images
Dorothea
Dix Speaks Out On Behalf of Insane Persons
"Massachusetts
to Virginia" - poem by John Greenlief Whittier
Slavery's
Pleasant Homes
- Lydia Maria Child (abolitionist fiction) |
| 1844: |
Across
the Plains in 1844 - from the journals of Catherine
Sager
Pringle
First
telegraph message (5/24)
A
Fugitive Slave Writes to His Former Master
The Liberty
Party 1844 Convention
"Martyrdom
of Joseph & Hiram Smith in Carthage Jail" -
lithograph
Philadelphia
Anti-Catholic Riots - Pennsylvania Freeman
(7/18/1844)
Presidential
Voting by States: 1844-1860 |
| 1845: |
"A
Week in the Mill" - article in The Lowell Offering
"The
Cruise of the Dove" - a whaler's song
Daily
Wage Rates on the Erie Canal, 1845-1870 - statistical chart
Eulogy
of Andrew Jackson - Jefferson Davis (6/28)
"Female
Industrial Association" - New York Herald
"The
Great Nation of Futurity" - John L. O'Sullivan
Inaugural
Address of James K. Polk
John
Humphrey Noyes and Bible Communism
Narrative
and Life of Frederick Douglass excerpts
Resolutions
of the Boston Carpenters' Strike
Treaty
for the Annexation of Texas (3/1/1845)
Twelve
Years a Slave
- Solomon Northup - excerpt
A
Vermont Girl Goes to Work at the Lowell Mills (1845-1853) |
| 1846: |
"Christian
Non-Resistance" - Adin Balou
David
Wilmot Argues For a Free California
A
Description of Early Factory Life - Lowell, MA
The
Donner Party's Log Entries (4/1846)
Ja
Norcom Letter to Mary Matilda Norcom - Edenton, NC
The
Mexican War & Slavery - political cartoons (1846-1848)
The
Oregon Treaty
President
Polk's War Message
Tenth
Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts
State
Board of Education
- Horace Mann
Whig cartoon -
"Funeral Obsequies of Free Trade"
Wilmot
Proviso |
| 1847: |
"Against
the Mexican War" - Thomas Corwin
Average
Monthly Salaries, Including Board, of Teachers in
1847
(towards bottom of page)
Daguerreotypes of
Pierce Butler, GA plantation owner (1847-1850s)
David
Wilmot Argues for a Free California
Elizabeth
Dixon Smith Geer, pioneer journal (1847-1850) - full
journal entries
Independent
Treasury Act
Letters
on the Masonic Institution
- John Quincy Adams
Manifest
Destiny assorted quotations (1847-1848)
"Memoirs
of a Monticello Slave, as Dictated to Charles Campbell
by
Isaac"
Mexican War
- assorted readings
Poetry
written by Abraham Lincoln about his early boyhood
"Report
on Abolition" - National Convention of Colored People |
| 1848: |
The
Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls Convention
Free
Soil Party Platform
"The Leg
I Left Behind Me" - poem on the Mexican War
Lowell
Factory Rules
New
York Barnburners & the Free Soil Party Convention
The
North Star
on Seneca Falls
"Report
from the Massachusetts Board of Education" - Horace Mann
“A
Rush to the Gold Washings,” from the California Star
Slave Codes of the
State of Georgia
"To
the West!" song lyrics
Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The
Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings,
Compiled
by William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1848) |
| 1849: |
"Civil
Disobedience" - Henry David Thoreau
The
Constitution of the State of Deseret - the Mormons (7/18)
The
Decision to Publish The Scarlet Letter
"Frederick
Douglass on Colonization" North Star (1/26)
From
the Diary of Alvin Coffey, African American 49er
Inaugural
Address of Zachary Taylor
"Irish
Immigration to the U. S." - statistical charts (1825-1849)
Miner’s
Ten Commandments
"Sacramento"
- song about the CA Gold Rush
"The
Southern Address" - John C. Calhoun
U.
S. Treaty with the Hawaiian Islands (12/20) |
| 1850: |
"Argument
on Woman's Rights," by H.H. Van Amringe, as reprinted
in
the Proceedings of the 1850 Convention
Calhoun's
Speech on the Compromise of 1850
Census
Data for the Year 1850
Clay's Resolutions
of 1850 (1/29)
Clayton-Bulwer
Treaty
The
Compromise of 1850
"Following
the Drinking Gourd" - song lyrics of the Underground
Railroad
(1850s?)
Fugitive
Slave Act
Godey's
Lady Book Online
"Grand
Demonstration of Petticoatdom at Worcester--The 'Woman's
Rights'
Convention in Full blast--Important and Interesting Report" -
Boston
Daily Mail,
Evening Edition, Friday (10/25)
"Higher
Law" speech - William Henry Seward
"The
Negro Woman's Appeal to Her White Sisters" Richard
Barrett,
ca. 1850s Broadside
New Railroad
Mileage Charts (by region), 1850-1860
The
New York Herald
supports the Compromise of 1850
Parker
Pillsbury, "Woman's Rights Convention and People of
Color,"
The North
Star
(12/5/1850)
Slave-owning
Population, 1850 - chart
"The
Stability of the Union" - De Bow's Review
Stephen
A. Douglas's speech on California Admission
The
Underground Railroad - Levi Coffin
|