Annual Message to Congress (1889)
President’s Annual Message, 51st Cong., 1st sess., Congressional Record 21, p 1 S84. https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1889/12/03. To the Senate and House of Representatives: There are few transactions in the administration of the Government that […]
Who is a Progressive?
Roosevelt, Theodore. “Who Is a Progressive?” The Outlook, April 13, 1912. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.32106012661507?urlappend=%3Bseq=841%3Bownerid=9007199271941056-847 In his recent speech at Philadelphia President Taft stated that he was a Progressive, and this raises the […]
Inaugural Address (1929)
Herbert Hoover, Inaugural Address. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207571 My Countrymen: THIS occasion is not alone the administration of the most sacred […]
Inaugural Address (1921)
Warren G. Harding, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206688 WHEN one surveys the world about him after the great storm, noting […]
Inaugural Address (1917)
Woodrow Wilson, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207579 The four years which have elapsed since last I stood in this place […]
Inaugural Address (1909)
William Howard Taft, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207216 My Fellow-Citizens: ANYONE who has taken the oath I have just taken […]
Inaugural Address (1905)
Theodore Roosevelt, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206052 MY fellow-citizens, no people on earth have more cause to be thankful than […]
The Souls of Black Folk: “Afterthought”
Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world-wilderness. Let there spring, Gentle One, from out its leaves vigor of thought […]
Of the Sorrow Songs
Source: Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. “Of the Sorrow Songs,” in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, 250-264. United States: A. C. McClurg & Company, 1903. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk/7psUAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. I […]
“Of the Faith of the Fathers,” from The Souls of Black Folk
It WAS out in the country, far from home, far from my foster home, on a dark Sunday night. The road wandered from our rambling log-house up the stony bed […]