Topic: Reform
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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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Eleanor Roosevelt Holding a Declaration of Human Rights Poster
Eleanor Roosevelt displays the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which the United Nations adopted in 1948. The idea of unalienable natural rights is central to this document, as it is...
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Female Pashtun after Voting
In 2005, a Pashtu woman displayed her inked finger to show she voted in Afghanistan’s election. Although no women and many men did not have the right to vote in...
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Gandhi Addressing His Followers
Here Mahatma Gandhi speaks to thousands of supporters in Delhi at the beginning of India’s struggle for independence. By teaching non-violence as a means of protesting and ultimately overthrowing British...
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Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall
In this powerful July 5, 1852 speech given in Rochester, NY, African-American abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass compares the freedoms being celebrated by white citizens on July 4 to...
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Portrait of John Locke
John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and political theorist. His Enlightenment theories greatly influenced Thomas Jefferson and his writing of the Declaration of Independence. Locke’s portrait is in the...
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