Sedition Act
U.S. Statutes at Large, volume 40 (1917–1919), 65th Congress, 553–554. Available at https://www.loc.gov/item/llsl-v40/. Sec. 3. Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports […]
The Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson, Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Conditions of Peace, January 8, 1918. Available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ptid=mdp.39015074797914&view=1up&seq=1. Gentlemen of the Congress: Once more, as repeatedly before, the […]
Food Will Win the War
Food Administration Home Card, 1917, U.S. Food Administration, National Archives and Record Administration (National Archives identifier: 20762195). Available at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/20762195. Hang this in your kitchen HOME CARDUNITED STATES FOOD ADMINSTRATIONWHAT […]
Open Address to the U.S. Congress
Carrie Chapman Catt, “Open Address to the U.S. Congress,” November 1917, Archives of Women’s Political Communication, Iowa State University. Available at https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2017/03/21/address-to-congress-november-1917/. Woman suffrage is inevitable. Suffragists knew it before […]
Wake Up America!
World War I Anti-Draft Pamphlet, August 1917, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia. Available at https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/world-war-i-anti-draft-pamphlet/dAE1fuuw7-VcEA. LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTIONOF THE UNITED STATESWake Up America! Your Liberties Are in Danger! The 13th […]
Alice Paul in Prison
Doris Stevens, “Alice Paul in Prison,” in Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 213–226. Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=R-GGAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA210&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false. MR. HART (Prosecuting Attorney for the Government): Sergeant Lee, were […]
Recruitment Poster: I Want YOU for U.S. Army
James Montgomery Flagg, “I Want YOU for U.S. Army,” 1917, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC. Available at https://www.loc.gov/item/96507165/.
Espionage Act
U.S. Statutes at Large, volume 40 (1917–1919), 65th Congress, 217–231. Available at https://www.loc.gov/item/llsl-v40/. TITLE I . . . SEC. 2. (a) Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it […]
Opposition to War
Senator George Norris, April 4, 1917, Congressional Record, 65th Congress, 1st Session (Washington, DC, 1917), vol. 55, part I, 213, 39. Available at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-CRECB-1917-pt8-v55/GPO-CRECB-1917-pt8-v55-7. While I am most emphatically and […]
Henry Ford’s Five-Day Week
Source: “Henry Ford’s Five-Day Week,” Literary Digest (April 29, 1922), 8. Available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015028101460&view=1up&seq=406. Will Henry Ford’s five-day week, with the minimum basic day-wage of $6 unchanged, benefit the Ford […]