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Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina.
Abraham Lincoln’s election as president in November 1860 lit the fuse of southern secession. Southerners understood that a united North could threaten the future of slavery in the United States, and many were alarmed by Lincoln’s consistent moral condemnation of the institution. Since the 1850s, southern political leaders had threatened to leave the Union to safeguard slavery. When faced with an anti-slavery president in the White House, the southern states began seceding from the country, with South Carolina leaving first on December 24, 1860.Tags lincoln-section-2 -
Act for Granting Lands to the Inhabitants and Settlers at Vincennes and the Illinois County.
In 1816, when Lincoln was seven, his family moved to Indiana, then a brand-new state. The Land Grant Act above had helped prepare the territory, originally part of the Old Northwest Territory, for entry into the United States. Indiana remained a borderland where the U.S. North and South overlapped and flowed together, and where Native Americans, French citizens, English citizens, and Americans intermingled. The War of 1812 had been followed by forty years of forced relocation of the defeated Wyandotte, Piankashaw, Shawnee, Delaware, Miami, Wea, and Potawatomi tribes. Lincoln’s father was able to buy land cheaply from the U.S. government through a system developed by Thomas Jefferson. The land sales provided revenue to alleviate Revolutionary War debts and created communities organized into neat grids.Tags lincoln-section-1 -
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Congressional Directory, For the Second Session of the Thirtieth Congress.
Lincoln sought and finally won a Congressional seat in 1846, when he was elected to represent Illinois. At this point, he had established a general reputation as being opposed to slavery, but he had not yet been forced to clarify his views. The Congressional Directory indicates that Lincoln was lodging in Washington at Mrs. Sprigg’s boarding house, near the intersection of First Street and Independence Avenue.Tags lincoln-section-1 -
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Yasuko Ueno, Duke University Class of 1925
Senior portrait of Yasuko Ueno, first Asian girl to graduate from Duke -
Senior Portrait of Owen K. Ough, Duke University Class of 1929
A photograph of Owen K. Ough, Duke University student from Korea -
"Clansman"
An illustration page introducing Duke's Greek organizations in the 1930 Chanticleer -
Senior Portrait of Yukio Nakayama, Duke Class of 1941
A picture of Yukio Nakayama (Duke Class of 1941) who was interned in a Idaho concentration camp during World War II. -
Photo of Toyoro Yamashita
A photograph of Duke sophomore Toyoro Yamashita who returned to Japan in 1941 -
Senior Portrait of Vee-Tsung Ling, Duke University Class of 1942
A picture of Vee-Tsung Ling, one of Duke's few Asian students during World War II -
The Annual 1956 Zeta Beta Tau "Chop Suey" Party
A picture from the 1956 Chanticleer depicting Zeta Beta Tau's annual "Chop Suey," party -
A Sea of White: Duke University Class of 1966
A page from the Chanticleer showing the extremely homogeneous nature of Duke's student body. -
Harsha Murthy, Class of 1981
Senior Portrait of Harsha Murthy, as shown in the 1981 Chanticleer -
Steven Chin, Duke Class of 1981
Senior portrait of Steven Chin, found in the 1981 Duke Chanticleer -
David Kim, Duke Class of 1982
Senior portrait of David Kim, as shown in The Chanticleer -
Diane Ty, Duke Class of 1983
Senior Portrait of Diane Ty, Duke University Class of 1983, as shown in the 1983 Chanticleer -
Shilpa Agarwal, Class of 1993
Senior portrait of Shilpa Agarwal, a South Asian graduate of Duke, as shown in the 1993 Chanticleer
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