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Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in 1838 and made his way to New England. By 1841, Douglass was relating his experiences at abolitionist meetings throughout the eastern states. Douglass’s book, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), forced him to flee to England as he had revealed his place of escape. However, liberal friends purchased Douglass’s freedom, and he was able to return to Rochester and start his abolitionist newspaper, the North Star. Active in the freedom...
Article: FDR's Second Fireside Chat
In his Report on Manufacturers, excerpted below, Alexander Hamilton articulated an ambitious plan to support the new nation’s infant industries and to encourage industrial development.
Article on Herbert Hoover Protests the New Deal and the Great Depression
Income (Share of income by socioeconomic groups over time), Wealth (Snapshot of concentration of wealth), Intergenerational Transfer of Wealth
The 2015 Supreme Court decision legalizing same sex marriage was the result of a well-organized movement for the LBGTQ rights that adopted, and in some ways perfected, the tactics of the civil rights movement. The drive for LGBTQ rights is often seen as beginning with the Stonewall riots in New York City in 1969, and the Obergefell decision can be considered the greatest achievement of that movement to date, but of course, there are still mountains to climb.
Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, entered in office on March 4th 1929. On October of that same year, the stock market crashed and the nation started to fall apart. By 1930, four million people were out of work and by the next year six million, and nearly half of the banks of the country had failed.
In December of 2019, a new respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by a novel coronavirus was first detected in central China. Within the first five weeks of the outbreak, tens of thousands of people were infected and more than a thousand died. The outbreak has been categorized as a public health emergency by the World Health Organization. Not surprisingly, the virus has been having economic impacts throughout the world. Major companies like Apple, Starbucks, and McDonalds closed stores in...
Notes On The State Of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote Notes on the State of Virginia, in reply to a series of questions from French 
diplomat François Barbé-Marbois. The work touches many facets of Virginia, from its geography to its flora to its political economy. In Query XIX below, Jefferson was responding to a question about “the present state of manufactures, commerce, interior and exterior trade” in Virginia.
Realism and Perspective: From Renaissance Painting to Digital Media practice questions