None/None/1860
Author: South Carolina
Description: A pamphlet entitled Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union and the Ordinance of Secession.
Tags: Secession Crisis, American Civil War
15/4/1861
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Description: A draft of Abraham Lincoln's Presidential Proclamation 80, calling up 75,000 militiamen for 3 month's service and calling Congress into an emergency session
Tags: Secession Crisis, American Civil War
None/None/1942
Author: Lieutenant General J.L. De Wit
Description: A report on the execution of Japanese Internment. Provides a favorable overview of internment and explains army rationale and logistics. Used as Exhibit B in United States v. Korematsu.
Tags: WW2, Japanese Internment
11/1/1943
Author: SS Sturmbahnführer Hermann Höfle
Description: A Telegram from Höfle tabulating the total number of deportees to the Aktion Reinhard Camps
Tags: Holocaust, Aktion Reinhard, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, WW2
19/4/1943
Author: Richard Korherr
Description: The short version of Korherr's Aktion Reinhard Report, meant for Adolf Hitler himself to read.
Tags: Holocaust, Aktion Reinhard, WW2, SS
2/12/1859
Author: John Brown
Description: John Brown's last words, as written by him on a slip of paper
Tags: Secession Crisis, American Civil War, Abolitionism