Employees of Ottenheimer on strike for poor treatment

Labor Day: A Celebration of Working in America

...they went on strike against Ford. But was this a victory? “Now We Can Begin”: Annotated Liz Tracey August 25, 2023 To mark the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment...
Richard Nixon photoshopped to be wearing a "Pardon Me! Gerald..." button.

Richard Nixon Redux

...how much we still don’t know about Watergate and the Nixon Administration The Pardon of President Nixon: Annotated Liz Tracey September 8, 2022 President Ford’s unconditional pardon of Richard Nixon...
Facsimile of the original draft of the United States Declaration of Independence with images of the signers around the border.

Celebrating the Fourth of July

...related to the holiday and its history. Independence, Expanded “What to the Slave is The Fourth of July?”: Annotated Liz Tracey July 4, 2023 On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass...
Grandchildren of slaves.

Reading for Juneteenth

...when it has real-world consequences. “What to the Slave is The Fourth of July?”: Annotated Liz Tracey July 4, 2023 On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a Fourth of...
Chartres, France. Known for its famous Chartres Cathedral and it's Labyrinth which were built in the 13th century.This is the Labyrinth outside in the Bishop's Garden, just behind the church.

An Editor Bids JSTOR Daily Farewell

...cocaine provided a willing workforce for our capitalist economy. Now, Americans are turning to ADHD medications. Stuck in the Midden with You Liz Tracey January 5, 2020 A midden is,...
Alexander Hamilton by Albert Rosenthal

The Federalist No. 1: Annotated

In May 1788, the second volume of what would come to be called The Federalist Papers, a collection of both new and previously printed essays written to sell the ratification...
"Noah Webster, The Schoolmaster of the Republic," print by Root & Tinker, 1886

Webster’s Dictionary 1828: Annotated

Sometimes, a dictionary is more than just words and definitions—it may be intended to serve as a declaration of linguistic independence. When Noah Webster’s first edition of the American Dictionary...
Map of the Missouri Compromise, 1820

Missouri Compromise of 1820: Annotated

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was neither the first nor the last time the men of American government “compromised” on the issue of slavery, and the freedom of more than...
A full-page newspaper advertisement published in the New York Times on March 29, 1960. It was paid for by the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Freedom in the South.

“Heed Their Rising Voices”: Annotated

On February 1, 1960, four young men, students at the historically Black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College (NCA&T), went to Woolworth’s in Greensboro and sat down at the lunch...
The first page of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution

The Fourteenth Amendment: Annotated

On February 8, 2024, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in Trump v. Anderson: whether a state (Colorado) can remove a presidential candidate from a primary ballot under...