by Craig Smith | May 2, 2022
The American Revolution provided a false hope for those of enslaved men and women. The author of the constitution, Thomas Jefferson, had wrote about the communal agreement of liberty and justice for all. In these words, many implications fell victim to the lack of...
by Kerry Ryan | May 2, 2022
Done in 1849, this lithography piece was created by James S. Baillie in New York City. The color print shows Tom “Young America” Hyer, a native from New York, and James “Yankee” Sullivan, an immigrant from Ireland bare knuckle boxing in a ring. The two fighters are...
by Natalie Heim | May 2, 2022
Drafted in New York in 1848, this “Declaration of Sentiments” provided by the Library of Congress highlights the growing interests during the nineteenth century in the women’s movement for suffrage as well as the reformation of society’s denial of women having rights...
by Gregg Walsh | May 1, 2022
The article from the Anti-Slavery Almanac that was published in 1837, A mother’s anguish, details how a woman who was a slave ended up killing her children as they were going to be shipped off to slavery. The mother did not want her children to experience what she...
by Deloris Hynes | May 3, 2021
This piece was created by an unknown artist in 1844 and depicts the death of American Brigadier-General Zebulon Pike at the Battle of York near York, present day Toronto. It was the first American win in the War of 1812, a pivotal war against Great Britain. The...