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Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union and the Ordinance of Secession

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


A Draft of Presidential Proclamation 80

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


Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, Chapters 1 and 2

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


Höfle Telegram

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


Short Korherr Report

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


John Brown's Last Words

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