From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen is dressed as a Boy Scout troop leader. He is walking along a path carrying a compass, and he is looking intently at the compass. The path he is...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to amend the existing Acts for the exemption of persons from military service." Mr Perkins moved the following as an amendment to the Exemption Bill, reported from the Committee on Military Affairs; enacted by the...
A Discourse before the General Assembly of South Carolina, on December 10, 1863, Appointed by The Legislature as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer. By B.M. Palber, D.D., of New Orleans, LA.
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
Abstract of Drafts of Members of the C. S. House of Representatives, paid by E. C. Elmore, Treasurer C. S. during, the recess of Congress, after April 18th, 1863, under authority of Act of April 16th, 1862.
Address delivered before the Virginia State Convention by Hon. Fulton Anderson, Commissioner from Mississippi, Hon. Henry L. Benning, Commissioner from Georgia, and Hon. John S. Preston, Commissioner from South Carolina.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Color print of the founding fathers of America signing the Constitution, by an unknown artist.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A local African American child sits in the doorway of an African American church during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1964. Near the child is a hand-lettered sign on crumpled...
Amendment: To Senate Bill (S.129) to provide for the employment of free negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications, and to perform other labor connected with the defenses of the county.
Amendments: Proposed by the Committee on Finance to the bill (H. R. 18) to lay taxes for the common defense, and carry on the Government of the Confederate States. Two hundred copies ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to declare what persons shall be exempt from military service." By Mr. Collier, of Virginia; enacted by the Congress of the Confederate States of America circa 1861-1865.
From the Political Campaign Collection. Poster endorsing the placement of Missouri Governor Lloyd Stark on the national Democratic ticket as vice president or president if Franklin Roosevelt did not accept the nomination for a thrid term as...
From the Map Collection. A map of Central and North America including Canada and the Arctic. The scale is given in six different countries measurements.
