Anna May Wong

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

...the San Fernando Valley teaches us about public space in America. The Chinese Exclusion Act: Annotated Liz Tracey May 19, 2022 The passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882...
1856 Republican candidate John C. Frémont is portrayed as the champion of a motley array of radicals and reformers.

The Revolutionary Beginnings of the Republican Party

...that “our object is to overthrow the Slave Power of the country.” More to Explore The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Annotated Liz Tracey May 19, 2025 The Fugitive Slave...
A collage of poets for National Poetry Month

A Reader’s Guide to Poetry for National Poetry Month

...Homer Reading List Liz Tracey October 2, 2023 The amount of scholarship on Homer and his works can be daunting. We've created this introductory reading list to help guide your...

How the Rio Grande Was Engineered into a Border

...projects during the first half of the twentieth century were major components of the effort to harden the border. More to Explore The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Annotated Liz Tracey...
JSTOR Daily celebrates Black History Month

Celebrating Black History Month

...Their Rising Voices”: Annotated Liz Tracey February 21, 2024 In 1960, an ad placed in the New York Times to defend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights...
Laura Secord warning Lieutenant James Fitzgibbon of an impending American attack, June 1813.

Laura Secord’s Walk

...to the (British) state is a higher calling, more important than her own safety or that of her wounded husband.” More to Explore The Treaty of Ghent: Annotated Liz Tracey...
Hand Holding a Pocket Watch

Keeping Time: A New Year’s Collection

...Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Liz Tracey December 14, 2024 Scrooge became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city...
Vintage illustration of a Snowflakes, snow crystals

Winter Holidays

...by Charles Dickens Liz Tracey December 14, 2024 Scrooge became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or...
The Fifteenth Amendment and its results, drawn by G.F. Kahl, 1870

The Fifteenth Amendment: Annotated

...incidents of deadly violence against those advocating for equal access to the ballot. More to Explore The Bill of Rights: Annotated Liz Tracey August 25, 2025 Proposed as a compromise...
Copy of the signature page of the Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

“Declaration of Sentiments”: Annotated

...right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. More to Explore The Bill of Rights: Annotated Liz Tracey August...