The Educational Outlook in the South
Fourteen years ago it is said that Northern teachers, in the South for the purpose of teaching in colored schools, were frightened away by the whites from the town of […]
The Forethought
Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not […]
Of Our Spiritual Strivings
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it, All, nevertheless, […]
The Constitution and Slavery
The assertion which we made five weeks ago, that “the Constitution, if strictly construed according to its reading,” is not a pro-slavery instrument, has excited some interest amongst our Anti-Slavery […]
The Destiny of Colored Americans
It is impossible to settle, by the light of the present, and by the experience of the past, any thing, definitely and absolutely, as to the future condition of the […]
“The Author and Signers of the Declaration”
It is common to think of the Declaration of Independence as a highly speculative document; but no one can think it so who has read it. It is a strong, […]
Return to Normalcy
There isn’t anything the matter with world civilization, except that humanity is viewing it through a vision impaired in a cataclysmal war. Poise has been disturbed, and nerves have been […]
Principles and Ideals of the United States Government
Source: Herbert Hoover: 1929: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, March 4 to December 31, 1929. In Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States […]
Inaugural Address (1925)
Calvin Coolidge, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206706 My Countrymen: NO one can contemplate current conditions without finding much that is […]
Constitutional Government in the United States: Chpt. 3, The President of the United States
Source: Woodrow Wilson, Constitutional Government in the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 1908), 54–62. It is difficult to describe any single part of a great governmental system without […]