History is for everyone

Annals of American History Online includes the full text of over 2000 primary documents in American history, including historical accounts, speeches, memoirs, poems, editorials, landmark court decisions, and cultural criticism. The resource also has multimedia files, including more than 500 pictures and hundreds of video and audio clips of famous speeches. This chronicle may be explored year by year using a timeline dating from 1493 to 2002, browsed by author or topic, or searched by keyword.

You can search by timeline, by author or by topic. The topic Discrimination & Diversity notes, "Equality has from the beginning been a promise of American life, though it is nowhere laid down as a governing principle. In the Declaration of Independence equality is defined as a “self-evident” truth, though this so-called natural truth has undergone several centuries of refinement. Relive the debates on freedom of religion, the abolition of slavery, immigration, the treatment of Native Americans, woman suffrage, fair wages, and other civil issues."

Read all about it in Annals of American History.

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