Topic: Protests
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Declaration of Independence by Stone
This document is a copy of the Declaration of Independence produced in 1823. As Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams came to believe that the original Declaration was fading over...
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Declaration of Independence by Tyler
This document is a copy of the Declaration of Independence. Producedin 1818 by Benjamin Owen Tyler of Washington, D.C., Tyler was the first engraver to publish a handwritten reproduction of...
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Declaration of Sentiments
This document is the Declaration of Sentiments issued by the participants in the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. At this gathering in upstate New York, 342 women and men wrote...
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Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention
This document is the Declaration of Sentiments issued in Dec. 1833 by the first meeting of the National Anti-Slavery Society. It was later published in William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist newspaper,...
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Ezra Stiles to Catharine Macaulay
Ezra Stiles, a Congregational minister and future president of Yale, wrote this letter to Catharine Macaulay, the famous historian of Great Britain. In 1775 many colonists began to anticipate armed...
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Fighting at the Hotel de Ville
This painting memorializes the revolution of July 1830 in Paris, which resulted in the creation of a constitutional monarchy. Another revolution established a republic in 1848; Louis Bonaparte (later known...
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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
In this famous speech, Patrick Henry urges his fellow members of Virginia’s legislature to defend themselves against British tyranny. He warns that Britain’s actions over the past decade have represented...
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Jefferson to John Randolph
In this letter, Thomas Jefferson writes to his fellow Virginian, John Randolph, who has fled to England. By this time in 1775, Americans had formed the Continental Congress and Continental...
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John Adams Diary Entry
In this diary entry, John Adams discusses the effects of the Stamp Act on the colonists. He notes that resistance to the Act was universal throughout the colonies. The colonists...
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