Featured Articles, Exhibits, and Books

 

 

A Nation of Law In a Time of Change: An Introduction to this Site

 

 

A Frame for Understanding the 1850s

 

 

A National Morality Play: The Murder Trial of Daniel Edgar Sickles

 

 

The Search for An American Voice: Rhetoric and Reform in the 1850's

 

 

FEATURED BOOKS

 

The Story of What Happened When Yankee Doodle Went to London--
American Superiority at the World's Fair

 

A Boy's Book on How to Climb the Ladder of Success--
The Bobbin Boy, or How Nat Got an Education

 

 

Narrative Guides to Online Materials

 

"A slaveholder's profession of Christianity is a palpable imposture. He is a felon of the highest grade. He is a man-stealer. It is of no importance what you put in the other scale." Reader! are you with the man-stealers in sympathy and purpose, or on the side of their down-trodden victims? If with the former, then are you the foe of God and man. If with the latter, what are you prepared to do and dare in their behalf? --Wm. Lloyd Garrison writing in his Introduction to Frederick Douglass's Narrative

The Battle Against Slavery

 

 

The Famine Irish

"Song of the Kansas Emigrant" John Greenleaf Whittier We cross the prairie as of old The fathers crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free. We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line, And plant beside the Cotton tree The rugged northern pine. We're flowing from our native hills As our free rivers flow, The blessing of our mother land Is on us as we go. We go to plant the common school On distant prairie swells, And give the Sabbaths of the wilds The music of her bells. Upbearing, like the ark of God. The Bible in our van. We go to test the truth of God Against the fraud of man."

 

COMING SOON

The Moral (and Other) Dangers of City Life

 

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