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Article written by Walter Lippmann for the Washington Post that calls on the U.S. government to take action against persons of Japanese ancestry, aliens and citizens alike, in military zones, Feb. 12, 1942.

Courtesy of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, University of Washington Libraries microfilm A7378, Reel 2, Box 2, Frame 0263, Item 1401

C.B. Munson's "Report and Suggestions Regarding Handling the Japanese Question on the Coast," Dec. 20, 1941. Courtesy of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, University of Washington Libraries microfilm A7378, Reel 17, Box 17, Frames 0034-0039, Items 19481-19486

Transcript of Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)

Text of the "Equal Rights for Women" speech by Shirley Chisholm on May 21, 1969.
Sources: Congressional Record - Extensions of Remarks E4165-6.

Text of the December 1851 speech by Sojourner Truth.

Johnson describes his domestic agenda and vision for a better America.
May 22, 1964

Poem by Robert Hayden

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born in Johnstown, Wisconsin and her poetry was being published by the time she graduated from high school. Her poetry was very popular, generally written in plain, rhyming verse. Her works include Poems of Passion (1883), A Woman of the World (1904), Poems of Peace (1906), Poems of Experience (1910), and Poems (1919).

Poem by Emily Dickinson

Poem by Christopher Marlowe

Sir Walter Raleigh's poetic response to Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

William Carlos Williams' poetic response to the exchange between Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh.

Letter written by Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963 and published in the Atlantic.

Poem by Ahmad Shamlu, written in 1979 after the Revolution in Iran.

Poem by Rabindranath Tagore.