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A selection of original sources
1900-1950
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Election of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt reported in
San Francisco Call
, November 7, 1900 (Library of Congress)
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Drawing depicting assassination of President McKinley at Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901 (Library of Congress)
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Photograph of scene outside home in Buffalo where,
following death of President McKinley on September 14, 1901,
oath of office administered to Vice President Theodore Roosevelt by U.S. District Judge John Hazel of the Western District of New York (Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies)
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President McKinley's funeral in Washington, September 17, 1901 (video) (Library of Congress)
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Inaugural Ceremonies for President Roosevelt, March 4, 1905 (video) (Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies)
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Theodore Roosevelt "square deal" speech ("
We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.") Dallas, Texas, April 5, 1905 (theodore-roosevelt.com)
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Theodore Roosevelt "Man in the Arena" speech Paris, France, April 23, 1910 (audio) (PAINTANK)
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Telegram from U.S. Ambassador Walter Page to President Woodrow Wilson conveying a translation of the intercepted " Zimmermann Telegram" from Germany to Mexico, in which Germany proposed an alliance in which Mexico could regain territory previously ceded after Mexican War to U.S., February 24, 1917 (National Archives)
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President Wilson's Address to Congress leading to a Declaration of War against Germany, April 2, 1917 (National Archives)
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The Versailles Treaty ending World War I, June 28, 1919 (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
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President Wilson in June 1920 in White House with wife Edith Bolling Galt Wilson steadying document following stroke he suffered in October 1919 (Library of Congress)
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Trial transcripts and other source materials related to Teapot Dome scandal in Warren Harding Administration which led to conviction of Secretary of Interior Albert Fall for taking bribes in leasing of federal oil reserves, 1924 (Brookings Institution/City University of New York)
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Photograph of President Calvin Coolidge shown with mourning armband after succeeding
to the presidency upon death of President Harding on August 3, 1923 (Library of Congress)
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New York Times
front page reporting on previous day's stock market crash, October 29, 1929 (
New York Times
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President Hoover radio broadcast announcing economic stimulus plan in 1931 (audio) (guyjuhn59's channel)
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Photographs and descriptions of "Hoovervilles" of shacktowns and homeless encampments during the Great Depression in State of Washington (The Great Depression in Washington State Project, University of Washington)
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Photograph of children at encampment in Washington, D.C., in summer 1932 of "Bonus Army" seeking federal payment of bonus to World War I veterans (National Archives)
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address ("The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.") (video) March 4, 1933 (C-SPAN)
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President Roosevelt's first Fireside Chat, (on the banking crisis (audio), March 12, 1933 (Miller Center, University of Virginia)
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U.S. Supreme Court decision in
A.L.A.
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States,
295 U.S. 495 (1935), holding that delegation of legislative power under National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 is unconstitutional and Act is also unconstitutional, as applied in the case, because it exceeds power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce and invades the power reserved exclusively to the states, May 27, 1935 (Justia.com)
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President Roosevelt's first Fireside Chat (on the banking crisis), March 12, 1933 (audio) (Miller Center, University of Virginia)
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Letter from Albert Einstein to President Roosevelt advising of current research that may lead to producing a nuclear chain reaction which could be utilized for "extremely powerful bombs," August 2, 1939 (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)
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Pearl Harbor attack emergency radio broadcast December 7, 1941 (audio) (Veterans Network)
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President Roosevelt's "yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy" address to Congress requesting Declaration of War against Japan following attack on Pearl Harbor, December 8, 1941 (video) (WarArchives)
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Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942, Headquarters Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, Office of the Commanding General, Presidio of San Francisco, California (National Archives)
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Letter from President Roosevelt to New York Governor Herbert Lehman responding to inquiry from Italian-American Labor Council stating that he is "keenly aware of anxiety" of German and Italian aliens as result of mass evacuation of Japanese aliens from West Coast, but that "no collective evacuation of German and Italian aliens is contemplated at this time" although "it may be necessary to require that certain individuals and their families be removed from local critical areas in order to provide necessary security," June 3, 1942 (New York State Archives)
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Message drafted by General Dwight D. Eisenhower in case the D-Day invasion failed ("...The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."), June 1944 (National Archives)
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Liberation of Paris, August 25, 1944 (video)(UnknownWWIIincolor/RomanoArchives)
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Agreements reached by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta Conference February 1945 (Historical Resources About the Second World War)
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Photograph of flag raising on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945 (Wikipedia/Associated Press)
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Death Certificate for President Roosevelt, April 12, 1945 (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)
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Translation of Nazi Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz’ broadcast informing German people of their unconditional surrender, May 8, 1945 (Historical Resources About the Second World War)
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Newsreel of President Truman announcing German surrender and celebrations in U.S., May 1945 (video) (National Archives)
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German Surrender Documents ending World War II (University of Oklahoma, College of Law)
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Photograph of raising the flag on Iwo Jima (Wikipedia/Associated Press)
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Interviews with crew of Enola Gay bomber after it dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 (video) (National Archives)
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New York Times
article reporting on bombing of Hiroshima August 6, 1945 (
New York Times
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Japanese Surrender Documents ending World War II, September 12, 1945 (University of Oklahoma, College of Law)
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Newsreel of Japanese surrender on U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, September 12, 1945 (video) (Nuclear Vault)
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President Truman Executive Order 9881 ending segregation in armed forces, July 26, 1948 (National Archives)
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President Truman speaks during 1948 campaign "Whistlestop" train tour (video) (Educational Video Group)
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