1870 – 1900
Gilded Age
Letters from America's era of rapid economic growth, immigration, and stark social contrasts.
2 letters from this era
Gilded Age
Political
Letter from Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull → U.S. Government
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the whites ever made with us have they kept? Not one.
October 1877 • Canada
Gilded Age
Political
Letter to W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington → W.E.B. Du Bois
We may differ in our methods, but I believe we share the same ultimate goal - the uplift and advancement of our race.
March 1903 • Tuskegee Institute