by Kayla Melidones | Apr 25, 2026
It is important for society to recognize the women who worked in textile factories, especially the women in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the 1840s. A historical source from the 1840s, The Lowell Offering, which was a magazine written by mill girls themselves,...
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 Andrew Schwed | May 4, 2025
In 1811, Tecumseh, a prominent Shawnee leader, delivered a passionate speech called the “Address To The Osage”, to the Osage people living in present-day Missouri. Born into a family deeply affected by ongoing conflicts between indigenous people and American settlers...
by Baylor Franz | Apr 28, 2025
Political Cartoon: How to Escape the Draft https://gettysburg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4016coll2/id/16/ The political cartoon How to Escape the Draft was created in the midst of one of the most volatile moments of the Civil War, the 1863 New York City...
by James Tierney | Apr 29, 2024
American Progress, the 1872 painting by John Gast, is perhaps the most iconic portrayal of Manifest Destiny in the United States of America. Beginning with Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the young nation began to turn its eyesight towards westward...