Tag: Documents

• Historical Document: Special Agent John A. Dowd in Chicago to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. July 12, 1934

  Overview There is little to nothing known about Mae Capone save for her parents, birthday, and the ways in which she suffered from the actions and decisions made by her…

  May 4, 2023

• National Headquarters Association Against the Prohibition Amendment to Wesley Jones, March 3, 1927

  Introduction The letter was written by the NHAAPA to the senator of Washington state citing events of spies and undercover agents being used to crack down on the sale and…

  April 26, 2023

• Women and New India

  Introduction Throughout the 1920s, there were many achievements for women’s rights, beginning with the nineteenth amendment in 1920. This was the beginning of the evolution of women’s roles. While many…

  May 12, 2021

• King Tutankhamun Discovery, New York Times, February 17, 1923

  EXPECT NEW FACTS FROM INNER TOMB Experts Think It May Give a Version of the Flood and of the Oppression of the Jews. MAY TELL OF ATEN HERESY It is…

  April 28, 2021

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  Lenin’s “Letter to the Congress”

  Letter to the Congress I I would urge strongly that at this Congress a number of changes be made in our political structure. I want to tell you of the…

  April 27, 2021

• Treaty of Lausanne Declaration of Amnesty

  Introduction Otherwise known as Annex VIII, part of the Treaty of Lausanne which ended the Greco-Turkish War, the Declaration of Amnesty addresses the atrocities committed by both sides during the…

  April 27, 2021

• Letter Regarding the Immigration Act of 1924

  Introduction In 1924 the United States passed the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act that drastically decreased the number of immigrants allowed into the U.S. through the implementation of a quota system. The…

  April 26, 2021

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  Record of Witness Testimony from the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, 1925.

  Introduction Towards the very beginning of 1925, the Tennessee state legislature approved a bill that banned the teaching of any theory that went against the story of Divine Creation, as…

  April 24, 2021

• Feed the World and Save the League, November 24, 1920

  Introduction Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a well-known social reformer, suffragist and the founder of the Hull-House settlement. During World War I, Addams became one of the United States’ best-known pacifists.…

  April 20, 2021