by Zohair Rasheed | Apr 23, 2026
This political cartoon, published by a San Francisco Lithography firm called White and Bauer, between 1860 and 1869, captures the widespread fear and prejudice Americans had towards the waves of new immigrants entering the United States during the mid 1800s. The...
by Lillian Eewshah | Apr 23, 2026
David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World is seen as one of the most powerful antislavery texts written in the United States. David Walker was a free Black man born in Wilmington, North Carolina. He first published the pamphlet in Boston in 1829, and...
by Daniel Ramdath | Apr 23, 2026
Insight into the Haitian Revolution The collection of sources titled, “Pennsylvania Newspapers React to Refugees from Haitian Revolution offers digital museum visitors insight into a very important revolution in Western, American history. The collection compiles four...
by Nicolas Zuniga | Apr 23, 2026
The Propagation Society—More Free Than Welcome (1855) By Nicolas Zuniga In 1855, as the United States grappled with massive demographic shifts, an anonymous painting titled “The Propagation Society—More Free Than Welcome” began to circulate in the American...
by Simone Bajaj | Apr 23, 2026
In December 1845, Mary Paul wrote a letter to her father writing about her daily life working in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. She was a young teenage girl who left her home in Vermont for work. Her letters offer a firsthand account of the opportunities...