Government and Law

Demonstration honoring 15th Amendment

Diagram of British slave ship

French soldiers are executed by Haitian revolutionaries

First reading of the Emancipation Proclamation

Violent Senate debate over admission of California into the Union

Cartoon from 1848 regarding Wilmot Proviso

Matteson painting commemorating Compromise of 1850

Cartoon-A cure for Republican lockjaw

African-American men vote for first time

James Gillray

Oscar Underwood

Frank Murphy

Alice Stone Blackwell

James Monroe

Thomas Paine

Wendell Willkie

Alice Stone Blackwell

Louis Brandeis

Millard Fillmore