Laying to Rest an Unknown American Soldier
Address of the President of the United States at the Burial of an Unknown American Soldier, Arlington Cemetery, November 11, 1921 (Government Printing Office, 1921). Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t8nc6t24q. Mr. Secretary […]
The Case against the ‘Reds’
Attorney General Palmer, “The Case against the ‘Reds,’ ” Forum (February 1920), 173–185. Available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030769403&view=1up&seq=179. In this brief review of the work which the Department of Justice has undertaken, […]
Defending the Versailles Peace Treaty
Woodrow Wilson, Address at the City Hall Auditorium in Pueblo, September 25, Available at Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley (eds.), The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/318184. Mr. Chairman and fellow […]
Navigating the North
“Some Don’ts,” Chicago Defender, May 17, 1919. Available at: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/migrations/text6/chicagodefender1919.pdf. —————SOME DON’TS————— . . . A fierce agitation is being waged by certain classes of citizens against immigration of southern […]
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 […]
Returning Soldiers
We are returning from war! THE CRISIS and tens of thousands of black men were drafted into a great struggle.1 For bleeding France and what she means and has meant […]
Schenck v. United States
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School. Available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/249/47. MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court. This is an indictment […]
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 […]
Close Ranks
W. E. B. Du Bois, “Close Ranks,” The Crisis, 16 (July 1918), 111. Available at https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:511336/. This is the crisis of the world. For all the long years to come […]