The Crime Against Kansas

The Crime Against Kansas
Author: Charles Sumner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1856
Genre: Kansas
ISBN:

Speech delivered in the Senate condemning the Southern expansion of slavery and the force used in compelling Kansas to be a slave state. In the course of the speech, Sumner ridicules South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler.

Our Documents

Our Documents
Author: The National Archives
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2006-07-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198042272

Our Documents is a collection of 100 documents that the staff of the National Archives has judged most important to the development of the United States. The entry for each document includes a short introduction, a facsimile, and a transcript of the document. Backmatter includes further reading, credits, and index. The book is part of the much larger Our Documents initiative sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), National History Day, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the USA Freedom Corps.