"Mr. Lewis was a member of Congress and later a Senator of the United States from Alabama. He was a man of large statue, weighing more than 450 pounds. It was necessary to prepare a special chair for him."
Account of the Union raid in Selma, Alabama, as remembered by Sarah Ellen Phillips. She describes an attack on a Confederate scouting party; her father's escape to Perry County; and the ransacking of local homes, including her own. In particular...
This cartoon depicts an American soldier leaving Dieppe with Nazi souvenirs. A woman, holding a purse labeled "War Bonds and Stamps," reaches out to him.
"Souvenir of Birmingham. Vulcan, The `Iron Man.' Birmingham's Iron Man. Vulcan represented Birmingham, Alabama's great coal and iron district and was the most striking single feature at the St. Louis Exposition, in 1904. This statue was designed by...
An Address delivered by Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Alabama, before the National Afro-American Council in McCauley's Theatre, Louisville, Ky., Thursday Evening, July, 2, 1903.
Political cartoon featuring Jefferson Davis, wearing a dress and sitting under the "Sour Apple Tree." His knife is on the ground, a noose hangs overhead, and the "Last Ditch" is in front of him.