A Black Soldier’s Experience in France
Letter from Charles R. Isum to W. E. B. Du Bois, May 17, 1919, W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312), Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts […]
Fighting in World War I
A. Judson Hanna, “There Were Many German Dead About,” September 20, 1918, in Pennsylvania Voices of the Great War: Letters, Stories, and Oral Histories of World War I, ed. J. […]
Letters from a Working Wife
Dwight Fee World War One Correspondence Collection, Center for American War Letters, Chapman University, Orange, CA. September 8th, 1918 Dear Dwight:1 I am just bubbling over with chatter but there […]
Letter from James Madison to Edward Everett
Source: “James Madison to [Edward Everett], 28 August 1830,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/99-02-02-2138. I have duly received your letter in which you refer to the “nullifying doctrine” advocated, as […]
Letter from James Madison to George Washington
Source: “From James Madison to George Washington, 16 April 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-09-02-0208. I have been honored with your letter of the 31 of March, and find with […]
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert Bacon (1902)
Dear Bob: Do you recollect when you wrote me a similar letter over four years ago just before the outbreak of the Spanish war? I have always prized that letter […]
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Upton Sinclair (1906)
My Dear Mr. Sinclair: I have your letter of the 13th instant. I have now read, if not all, yet a good deal of your book, and if you can […]
The Name “Negro”
“Postscript, by W.E.B. Du Bois. The Crisis (March 1928), pg. 96. https://ia801803.us.archive.org/28/items/sim_crisis_1928-03_35_3/sim_crisis_1928-03_35_3.pdf Dear Sir: I am only a high school student in my Sophomore year, and have not the understanding […]
Another Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson
Sir: On the occasion of your inauguration as President of the United States, The Crisis took the liberty of addressing to you an open letter. The Crisis spoke for no […]
Letter from Frederick Douglass to C.H. Chase (1849)
My dear Sir: I owe you an apology for not sooner publishing and replying to the above letter. On a close examination of the Constitution, I am satisfied that if […]