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A
- PrimA.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935)1 min
- PrimAbigail and John Adams Converse on Women’s Rights, 17766 min
- PrimAbigail Bailey Escapes an Abusive Relationship, 18155 min
- PrimAbraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 18654 min
- PrimAccusations of witchcraft, 1692 and 17064 min
- PrimAfrican Americans Debate Enlistment (1898)2 min
- PrimAgricultural Adjustment Act (1933)1 min
- PrimAiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/19946 min
- PrimAlain Locke on the “New Negro” (1925)5 min
- PrimAlan Seeger on World War I (1914; 1916)3 min
- PrimAlexander Stephens on Slavery and the Confederate Constitution, 18616 min
- PrimAlexis de Tocqueville, “How Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes,” 18405 min
- PrimAlibamo Mingo, Choctaw leader, Reflects on the British and French, 17654 min
- PrimAlice Stone Blackwell, Answering Objections to Women’s Suffrage (1917)5 min
- PrimAlvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca Travels through North America, 15427 min
- PrimAmbrose Bierce Recalls his Experience at the Battle of Shiloh, 18816 min
- PrimAndrew Carnegie on “The Triumph of America” (1886)5 min
- PrimAngelina Grimké, Appeal to Christian Women of the South, 18365 min
- SecAntebellum Politics as Raucous Democracy1 min
- PrimArthur Rothstein, "Results of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma" (1936)1 min
- PrimThe Atlantic Charter (1941)2 min
- SecAtlantic History in Global Perspective1 min
- PrimAn Aztec account of the Spanish Attack4 min
B
- PrimBarbara Jordan, 1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address (1976)5 min
- PrimBarry Goldwater, Republican Nomination Acceptance Speech (1964)4 min
- PrimBartolomé de Las Casas Describes the Exploitation of Indigenous Peoples, 15425 min
- PrimBeer Destroyed in the District of Columbia (1923)1 min
- PrimBertha McCall on America’s “Moving People” (1940)3 min
- PrimBertha McCall on America’s “Moving People” (1940)3 min
- PrimBertha McCall on America’s “Moving People” (1940) The American Yawp Reader3 min
- PrimBlack Philadelphians Defend their Voting Rights, 18386 min
- PrimBlack scientist Benjamin Banneker demonstrates black intelligence to Thomas Jefferson, 17917 min
- PrimA Black Union Soldier Comments on Treatment by Southerners1 min
- PrimBlacksmith Apprentice Contract, 18362 min
- PrimBonus Army Camp at Anacostia Flats (1932)1 min
- PrimBooker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois on Black Progress (1895, 1903)7 min
- PrimBoston King recalls fighting for the British and securing his freedom, 17985 min
- PrimBoston trader Sarah Knight on her travels in Connecticut, 17044 min
- PrimBrown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)5 min
C
- PrimC. W. Turner, "A flapper girl" (1922)1 min
- SecCapitalism and Slavery1 min
- SecThe Changes Wrought by Cotton, Transportation, and Communication1 min
- PrimCharles A. Lindbergh, “America First” (1941)5 min
- PrimCharlotte Forten complains of racism in the North, 18555 min
- PrimCharlotte Perkins Gilman, “Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper” (1913)2 min
- PrimChelsea Manning Petitions for a Pardon (2013)3 min
- PrimCherokee Petition Protesting Removal, 18363 min
- PrimChester A. Arthur on American Indian Policy (1881)5 min
- PrimChief Joseph on Indian Affairs (1877, 1879)4 min
- PrimChinese Merchant Complains of Racist Abuse, 18605 min
- PrimCivil War songs, 18623 min
- PrimClaude McKay, "If We Must Die" (1919)1 min
- PrimA Confederation of Native peoples seek peace with the United States, 17865 min
- PrimCongress Debates Going to War, 18116 min
- PrimCongressman Arthur L. Miller Gives “the Putrid Facts” About Homosexuality” (1950)4 min
- SecCreating the System: Railroads and the Modern Corporation1 min
- SecThe Creation of the American Republic, 1776-17871 min
- PrimCreek headman Alexander McGillivray (Hoboi-Hili-Miko) seeks to build an alliance with Spain, 17855 min
- PrimCrystal Eastman, “Now We Can Begin” (1920)6 min
D
- PrimDavid Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, 18295 min
- PrimDeclaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945)5 min
- PrimDeclaration of Independence, 17768 min
- PrimDefense Attorney Clarence Darrow Interrogates Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan in the Monkey Trial (1925)3 min
- SecDeveloping Democracy: Concepts, Measures, and Empirical Relationships35 min
- PrimDiary of a Woman Migrating to Oregon, 18539 min
- PrimDispatch from a Mississippi Colored Farmers’ Alliance (1889)5 min
- SecDoing History, "Tools For Analysis - Primary Evidence"1 min
- SecDoing History, "What is History?"1 min
- PrimDorothea Dix defends the mentally ill, 18435 min
- PrimDorothea Lange, "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age 32" (1936)1 min
- PrimDorothea Lange, "Hooverville of Bakersfield, California" (1936)1 min
- PrimDorothy West, “Amateur Night in Harlem” (1938)5 min
- PrimDorothy West, “Amateur Night in Harlem” (1938) The American Yawp Reader5 min
- PrimDwight D. Eisenhower, “Atoms for Peace” (1953)6 min
E
- PrimEliza Lucas Letters, 1740-17415 min
- PrimEllen Welles Page, "A Flapper's Appeal to Parents" (1922)1 min
- PrimEmergency Banking Act (1933)1 min
- PrimEmergency Relief and Construction Act (1932)1 min
- PrimEmily Doe, Victim Impact Statement (2015)5 min
- PrimEmma Goldman on Patriotism (July 9, 1917)1 min
- SecEmpire State of Mind - WNYC Studios41 min
- SecEpisode 31: Turning the Lens (Seeing White, Part 1)1 min
- SecEpisode 32: How Race Was Made (Seeing White, Part 2)1 min
- SecEpisode 33: Made in America (Seeing White, Part 3)1 min
- SecEpisode 34: “On Crazy We Built a Nation” (Seeing White)1 min
- SecEpisode 35: Little War on the Prairie (Seeing White, Part 5)1 min
- SecEpisode 36: That's Not Us, So We're Clean (Seeing White, Part 6)1 min
- SecEpisode 38: Skulls and Skin (Seeing White, Part 8)1 min
- SecEpisode 39: A Racial Cleansing in America (Seeing White Part 9)1 min
- SecEpisode 40: Citizen Thind (Seeing White, Part 10)1 min
- PrimEugene Debs, “How I Became a Socialist” (April, 1902)5 min
- PrimExtracts from Gibson Clough’s War Journal, 17596 min
F
- PrimF. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)1 min
- PrimFair Labor Standards Act (1938)1 min
- PrimFamily Walking on Highway 1936 The American Yawp Reader1 min
- PrimFannie Lou Hamer/ Testimony at the Democratic National Convention 19646 min
- PrimFDR, Executive Order No. 9066 (1942)3 min
- SecThe Fears of the Jeffersonian Republicans1 min
- PrimFirst Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan (1981)4 min
- PrimFrancis Daniel Pastorius Describes his Ocean Voyage, 16844 min
- PrimFranklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat on Banking (1933)1 min
- PrimFranklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933)1 min
- PrimFranklin Roosevelt’s Re-Nomination Acceptance Speech (1936)4 min
- PrimFranklin Roosevelt’s Re-Nomination Acceptance Speech (1936) The American Yawp Reader5 min
- PrimFrederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” 18525 min
- PrimFrederick Jackson Turner, "Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)5 min
- SecThe Frontier as a Place of Ethnic and Religious Conflict1 min
- SecThe Frontier as the Forefront of Capitalism1 min
G
- PrimA Gaspesian Indian Defends His Way of Life, 16416 min
- PrimGeneral Benjamin F. Butler Reacts to Self-Emancipating People, 18613 min
- PrimGeorge Fitzhugh Argues that Slavery is Better than Liberty and Equality, 18545 min
- PrimGeorge M. Garcia, Vietnam Veteran, Oral Interview (1969/2012)6 min
- PrimGeorge R. T. Hewes, A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-party, 18346 min
- PrimGeorge R. T. Hewes, A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-party, 18346 min
- PrimGeorge W. Bush on the Post-9/11 World (2002)5 min
- PrimGeorge Washington, “Farewell Address,” 17965 min
- PrimGloria Steinem on Equal Rights for Women (1970)5 min
H
- PrimH.J. Res. 75, Proposed Equal Rights Amendment (1923)1 min
- PrimHarriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 18526 min
- PrimHarriet H. Robinson Remembers a Mill Workers’ Strike, 18364 min
- PrimHarriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 18604 min
- PrimHarry Herzog, "Forging ahead Works Progress Administration" (1936)1 min
- PrimHarry Truman Announcing the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima (1945)5 min
- PrimHaudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address4 min
- PrimHector St. Jean de Crèvecœur Describes the American people, 17826 min
- PrimHelen Hunt Jackson on a Century of Dishonor (1881)5 min
- PrimHenry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1918)2 min
- PrimHenry David Thoreau Reflects on Nature, 18545 min
- PrimHenry George, Progress and Poverty, Selections (1879)4 min
- PrimHenry George, Progress and Poverty, Selections (1879)4 min
- PrimHenry Grady on the New South (1886)3 min
- PrimHerbert Hoover on the New Deal (1932)4 min
- PrimHerbert Hoover, “Principles and Ideals of the United States Government” (1928)8 min
- PrimHerbert Hoover, "Statement on the National Business and Economic Situation" (1929)1 min
- PrimHernandez v. Texas (1954)5 min
- PrimHiram Evans on the “The Klan’s Fight for Americanism” (1926)5 min
- Primhttp://www.americanyawp.com/reader/british-north-america/recruiting-settlers-to-carolina-1666/http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/british-north-america/recruiting-settlers-to-carolina-1666/http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/british-north-america/recruiting-settlers-to-carolina-1666/5 min
- PrimHuey P. Long, “Every Man a King” and “Share our Wealth” (1934)10 min
- PrimHuey P. Long, “Every Man a King” and “Share our Wealth” (1934) The American Yawp Reader10 min
I
- PrimI Hear America Singing1 min
- PrimI, Too1 min
- PrimIda B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in America” (1900)5 min
- PrimImmigration Act of 19241 min
- PrimIntimidating Former Slaves2 min
J
- PrimJacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890)5 min
- PrimJames D. Phelan, “Why the Chinese Should Be Excluded” (1901)2 min
- PrimJames Madison Asks Congress to Support Internal Improvements, 18155 min
- PrimJames Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, 17855 min
- PrimJane Addams, “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” (1892)4 min
- PrimJerry Falwell on the “Homosexual Revolution” (1981)3 min
- PrimJesse Jackson on the Rainbow Coalition (1984)5 min
- PrimJimmy Carter, “Crisis of Confidence” (1979)6 min
- PrimJohn F. Kennedy on the Separation of Church and State (1960)3 min
- PrimJohn F. Kennedy, "Get American Moving Again" Speech (1960)1 min
- PrimJohn Lawson Encounters North American Indians, 17097 min
- PrimJohn O’Sullivan Declares America’s Manifest Destiny, 18456 min
- PrimJohn Winthrop dreams of a city on a hill, 16307 min
- PrimJonathan Edwards Revives Enfield, Connecticut, 17418 min
- PrimJoseph McCarthy on Communism (1950)4 min
- PrimJournal of Christopher Columbus, 14926 min
- PrimJuanita Garcia on Migrant Labor (1952)3 min
L
- PrimLaura C. Kellogg on Indian Education (1913)4 min
- PrimLBJ and Civil Rights Leaders (1964)1 min
- PrimThe Legend of Moshup, 18305 min
- PrimLester Hunter, “I’d Rather Not Be on Relief” (1938)2 min
- PrimLester Hunter, “I’d Rather Not Be on Relief” (1938) The American Yawp Reader2 min
- PrimLetter from Carolina, 16824 min
- PrimLetter of Cato and Petition by “the negroes who obtained freedom by the late act,” in Postscript to the Freeman’s Journal, September 21, 17813 min
- PrimLetters from Venezuelan General Francisco de Miranda regarding Latin American Revolution, 1805-18065 min
- PrimLillian Hellman Refuses to Name Names (1952)3 min
- PrimLucy Parsons on Women and Revolutionary Socialism (1905)5 min
- PrimLucy Parsons on Women and Revolutionary Socialism (1905)5 min
- PrimLutiant Van Wert describes the 1918 Flu Pandemic (1918)4 min
- PrimLyndon Johnson on Voting Rights and the American Promise (1965)5 min
- PrimLyndon Johnson, Howard University Commencement Address (1965)3 min
M
- SecMaking the White Man's Country White1 min
- PrimMamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds, "Crazy Blues" (1920)1 min
- PrimManuel Quezon calls for Filipino Independence (1919)5 min
- PrimManuel Trujillo Accuses Asencio Povia and Antonio Yuba of Sodomy, 17316 min
- PrimMarcus Garvey, "Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association" (1921)1 min
- PrimMargaraetta Mason and Lydia Maria Child Discuss John Brown, 18604 min
- PrimMaria Stewart bemoans the consequences of racism, 18327 min
- PrimMary Polk Branch remembers plantation life, 19126 min
- PrimMary Smith Cranch comments on politics, 1786-876 min
- PrimMissouri Controversy Documents, 1819-19205 min
N
- PrimNat Turner explains the Southampton rebellion, 18316 min
- PrimNational Industrial Recovery Act (1933)1 min
- PrimNational Labor Relations Act / Wagner Act (1935)1 min
- PrimNational Organization for Women, “Statement of Purpose” (1966)7 min
- PrimNational Prohibition Act / Volstead Act (1919)1 min
- PrimNative Americans Occupy Alcatraz (1969)5 min
- PrimNative Americans Occupy Alcatraz (1969)5 min
- PrimThe Negro Speaks of Rivers (1920)1 min
- SecNeil Halloran, "The Fallen of World War II"1 min
- SecNew Worlds for All1 min
- PrimNixon Announcement of China Visit (1971)2 min
- PrimNLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937)1 min
- PrimNSC-68 (1950)5 min
O
P
- PrimPat Buchanan on the Culture War (1992)6 min
- PrimPaul Robeson’s Appearance Before the House Un-American Activities Committee (1956)5 min
- PrimPedro Lopez on His Mother’s Deportation (2008/2015)6 min
- PrimA Phillip Randolph and Franklin Roosevelt on Racial Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)3 min
- PrimPhyllis Schlafly on Women’s Responsibility for Sexual Harassment (1981)5 min
- PrimPlessy v. Ferguson31 min
- PrimPoem about Civil War Nurses, 18663 min
- PrimPontiac Calls for War, 17632 min
- PrimThe Port Huron Statement (1962)5 min
- PrimPowell v. Alabama (1932)1 min
- PrimPresident Monroe Outlines the Monroe Doctrine, 18235 min
- SecThe Pressure of the People on the Framers of the Constitution1 min
- PrimPrigg v. Pennsylvania, 18425 min
- PrimPro-Slavery Arguments: The Biblical Argument2 min
- PrimProhibition Chiefs Testify Before Ways and Means Committee (1925)1 min
R
- SecRadical Possibilities of the American Revolution1 min
- SecThe Radical Revolution from the "Bottom Up"1 min
- PrimRebecca Burlend recalls her emigration from England to Illinois, 18486 min
- PrimRebecca Reed accuses nuns of abuse, 18355 min
- SecReconstructing Race1 min
- PrimReconstruction Finance Corporation Act (1932)1 min
- PrimReconstruction in Texas3 min
- PrimReport of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968)4 min
- PrimRevivalist Charles G. Finney Emphasizes Human Choice in Salvation, 18364 min
- PrimRhode Islanders Protest Property Restrictions on Voting, 18344 min
- PrimRichard Hakluyt makes the case for English colonization, 15845 min
- PrimRichard Nixon on the American Standard of Living (1959)5 min
- PrimRosa Parks on Life in Montgomery, Alabama (1956-1958)5 min
- PrimRose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918)4 min
- PrimRose Davis is sentenced to a life of slavery, 17153 min
S
- PrimSamson Occom describes his conversion and ministry, 17686 min
- PrimSamuel Morse Fears a Catholic Conspiracy, 18355 min
- PrimSand Creek Massacre29 min
- PrimSarah Grimké Calls for Women’s Rights, 18384 min
- PrimSecond Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1937) The American Yawp Reader4 min
- PrimThe Sedition Act of 1918 (1918)3 min
- PrimSelma March (1965)1 min
- PrimSenator Margaret Chase Smith’s “Declaration of Conscience” (1950)6 min
- PrimSermon on the Duties of a Christian Woman, 18515 min
- PrimA Slave Auction2 min
- PrimSlavery, Antislavery, and Jacksonian Democracy (1996)1 min
- PrimSocial Security Act (1935)1 min
- PrimSolomon Northup Describes a Slave Market, 18416 min
- PrimSong about Life in Virginia3 min
- PrimSouth Carolina Declaration of Secession, 18605 min
- PrimStatement by John Kerry of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971)4 min
- PrimStatements from The Parents Music Resource Center (1985)5 min
- PrimStatements of AIDS Patients (1983)6 min
- PrimStories from the Underground Railroad, 1855-565 min
- PrimThe story of the Virgin of Guadalupe7 min
- PrimSusannah Rowson, Charlotte Temple, 17944 min
T
- PrimTecumseh Calls for Pan-Indian Resistance, 18103 min
- PrimTennessee Valley Authority Act (1933)1 min
- PrimTheodore Roosevelt on “The New Nationalism” (1910)5 min
- PrimThomas Jefferson’s Racism, 17886 min
- PrimThomas Morton Reflects on Indians in New England, 16376 min
- PrimThomas Paine Calls for American independence, 17765 min
- PrimThomas Paine Calls for American independence, 17765 min
- PrimA Traveler Describes Life Along the Erie Canal, 18296 min
- PrimThe Truman Doctrine (1947)3 min
- PrimTurning Hawk and American Horse on the Wounded Knee Massacre (1890:1891)5 min
- PrimTuskegee Airmen (1941)1 min
U
- SecThe Unknown American Revolution1 min
V
W
- PrimW.E.B DuBois, “Returning Soldiers” (May, 1919)3 min
- PrimWalter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)4 min
- PrimWarren G. Harding and the “Return to Normalcy” (1920)3 min
- PrimWilliam Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism (ca. 1880s)3 min
- PrimWilliam Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism (ca.1880s)4 min
- PrimWilliam Henry Singleton, a formerly enslaved man, recalls fighting for the Union, 19226 min
- PrimWilliam Lloyd Garrison Introduces The Liberator, 18314 min
- PrimWilliam T. Hornady on the Extermination of the American Bison (1889)4 min
- PrimWilliam Wells Brown, “Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States,” 18535 min
- PrimWomen in South Carolina Experience Occupation, 17803 min
- PrimWomen in South Carolina Experience Occupation, 17803 min
- PrimWoodrow Wilson on the New Freedom (1912)3 min
- PrimWoodrow Wilson Requests War (April 2, 1917)5 min
- SecWorlds of Goods in the Northern Colonies1 min
- PrimWWII Posters1 min
- PrimWyandotte woman describes tensions over slavery, 18492 min
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- Prim"K.K.K. parade, 8/8/25" (1925)1 min
- Prim“Next!” (1904)1 min
- PrimThe “Omaha Platform” of the People’s Party (1892)9 min
- Sec"Our Indians": European Empires and the History of the Native American South1 min
- PrimThe 1619 Project: "The Fight for a True Democracy"23 min
- Prim1860 Republican Party Platform6 min
- PrimThe 9/11 Commission Report, “Reflecting On A Generational Challenge” (2004)6 min