1864 | Illustration
Keywords appearing in all Union commanders? correspondence in the Atlanta Campaign of 1864; the larger the word, the more often it appeared in their writings. Compiled from U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, (Gettysburg, Pa.: National Historical Society, c. 1971?1972), Vol. 38 (Parts IV and V), including all Union command correspondence. (Voyeur Tools [copyright 2009] Steffan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell, v. 1.0; graph by Trevor Munoz and the author [September 2009]. This image was generated using Wordle, under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.)
September 30, 1896 | Speech
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
September 2, 1896 | Speech
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
July 17, 1896 | Speech
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
September 12, 1896 | Speech
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
July 16, 1896 | Speech
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
September 12, 1896 | Speech
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
March 30, 1872 | Illustration
This image from the March 30, 1872 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts a cartoonist's view of justice "derailing" a corrupt ring on the Erie Railroad.
1858
This is an image of the great iron bridge by which the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crossed the Monongahela River near Fairmont, West Virginia in The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857.
August 8, 1896 | Speech
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
1928 | Photograph
John W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1858-1884, steered the railroad through the crisis of the Civil War, maintaining a firm commitment to the Union. In the strike Garrett regretted pay cuts and attempted to retain his employees, but firmly held to the principle of free labor's right to contract.
July 28, 1877 | Newspaper
This article from the July 28, 1877 issue of the Pittsburgh Daily Post reveals the opinion of London official John Bright in response to the American railroad strikes and outlines what he believes to be their cause.
September 29, 1896 | Speech
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
October 6, 1896 | Speech
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
July 16, 1896 | Speech
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
October 26, 1896 | Speech
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
October 26, 1896 | Speech
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
September 17, 1894 | Newspaper
Republican editor Edward Rosewater had played a central role in the party's organization, but broke ranks with Thurston's Republican cohorts and he resigned from the state committee and campaigned in 1894 for cleaning up politics from railroad influence.
August 8, 1896 | Speech
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
March 29, 1862 | Illustration
This image from the March 29, 1862 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts a scene of destruction at Manassas Junction in Virginia during the American Civil War.