The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob
It makes a great deal of difference in the life of a race, as it does in the life of an individual, whether the world expects much or little of […]
Autobiography: On the Bill Establishing Religious Freedom
“Jefferson’s Autobiography,” The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/73r6. The bill for establishing religious freedom, the principles of which had, to a certain degree, been enacted before, I had drawn in […]
Letter from John Adams to Hezekiah Niles (1818): On the American Revolution
The American Revolution was not a common event. Its effects and consequences have already been awful over a great part of the globe. And when and where are they to […]
Memorandum Regarding Relations with Pendergast Machine
There has been much speculation about my relationship politically with T. J. Pendergast (Tom). He became a powerful political boss in Missouri after 1926. His career ended in the early […]
Farewell Address (1953)
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1952-1953 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966), 1197-1202. Available at https://goo.gl/tMr2BL. My fellow Americans: I am […]
The Struggle for an Education
ONE day, while at work in the coal-mine, I happened to overhear two miners talking about a great school for coloured people somewhere in Virginia. This was the first time […]
The Last Flogging
A SLEEPLESS NIGHT–RETURN TO COVEY’S–PURSUED BY COVEY–THE CHASE DEFEATED–VENGEANCE POSTPONED–MUSINGS IN THE WOODS–THE ALTERNATIVE–DEPLORABLE SPECTACLE–NIGHT IN THE WOODS–EXPECTED ATTACK–ACCOSTED BY SANDY, A FRIEND, NOT A HUNTER–SANDY’S HOSPITALITY–THE “ASH CAKE” SUPPER–THE […]