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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
Religion, Loyalty, and Belonging
Read statements by George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte about religious freedom and the membership of Jews in eighteenth-century France and the United States.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Religious Freedom in Colonial Virginia
Explore the role of leaders and ordinary citizens in the history of religious freedom in colonial Virginia.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Religious Freedom, Then and Now: Suspicion of Catholics Once Common in U.S.
Examine the rise of nativism and anti-Catholic prejudices in the 1800s in the US and consider connections to issues surrounding religious freedom today.
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Race & Membership/Eugenics
Revising the Test
Investigate how Lewis Terman, a professor of education at Stanford University, created a test in 1917 that measured the mental abilities of large groups of people.
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Race in US History
Savannah Freedpeople Express Their Aspirations for Freedom
Read an excerpt from the transcript of the Savannah Colloquy, a meeting between Union officials and Savannah’s black community in January 1865.
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Race in US History
Sharecropping Contract
In this sharecropping contract, farmer Thomas J. Ross agrees to employ Freedmen to plant and raise a crop on his Rosstown Plantation in Shelby County, Tennessee.
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Justice & Human Rights
Social and Economic Rights: Eleanor’s Speech at the Sorbonne
Investigate Eleanor Roosevelt’s description of the differences between the way Americans and Soviets viewed personal freedoms and rights in this excerpt of her speech delivered at the Sorbonne.
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Race in US History
South Carolina "Red Shirts" Battle Plan (1876)
Democratic Party paramilitary groups also emerged in South Carolina during the 1876 state and national campaigns. There, members of these groups called themselves the “Red Shirts.” Their official battle plan called for Democratic clubs armed with rifles and pistols.
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Race in US History
South Carolina Freedpeople Demand Education
In November 1865, a convention of freedmen in South Carolina passed a resolution that demanded, among other rights, education for their children. Read an excerpt of the resolution here.
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Race in US History
South Carolina's Governor Requests Federal Intervention (1876)
South Carolina governor Daniel Chamberlain sends a request to President Grant in 1876 for Federal intervention after the massacre at Hamburgh.
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Race in US History
Speech by President Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address
This is the full text of President Lincoln's second inaugural address, which took place March 4, 1865.
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