Arrested for “being a person of the female sex” and voting
On November 18, 1872 a deputy U.S. marshal arrested Susan B. Anthony for voting in the 1872 presidential election. She was indicted two months later for voting...
Bob Hope’s first curtain call
Look on line 13 of this ship passenger list for Leslie Hope, who would change his name in 1928 to Bob Hope. His age is incorrectly recorded as two. He was actually...
Celebrating Washington’s Inaugural
This panel from the 1939 U.S. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission commemorates the Inauguration of the...
Children awarded pension
Pvt. Jacob Shoemaker of Pennsylvania served in Col. Henry Haller’s Battalion of the Flying Camp. He was in the Battle of Long Island, New York, and was discharged...
Convicted for Voting
Suffragette Susan B. Anthony registered and voted in the election of 1872 in Rochester, New York. As planned, she was arrested for “knowingly, wrongfully and...
Disease control
This group of African American soldiers was photographed at Camp Wikoff, New York, in 1898. At the end of the Spanish-American War, soldiers returning from Cuba or...
Draft riots paralyze New York City
When Federal officials began using the Enrollment Act to draft men on July 13, 1863, riots erupted in New York City. In this urgent letter, Maj. Gen. John E. Wool...