Coins
Commentary
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John W. Danford,
Roots of Freedom
from Chapter 12, "American
Liberty"(2000)
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Thomas K. Murphy,
A Land Without Castles: The Changing Image of America
in Europe, 1780-1830
from Chapter 4, "Symbols of
America in Europe"(2001)
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E. McClung Fleming, from "The American Image as Indian
Princess, 1765-1783,"
Winterthur Portfolio
(1965)
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E. McClung Fleming, from "From Indian Princess to
Greek Goddess: The American Image, 1783-1815,"
Winterthur Portfolio
(1967)
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Cornelius Vermeule,
Numismatic Art in America: Aesthetics of the United
States Coinage
from Chapter I, "Background of
the Federal Coinage" and Chapter III, "America's Classical
Coinage"(1971)
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Marvin Trachtenberg,
The Statue of Liberty
(1976)
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Phoebe Lloyd Jacobs, from "John James Barralet and the
Apotheosis of George Washington,"
Winterthur Portfolio
(1977)
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Vivien Green Fryd, from "Hiram Powers's America: 'Triumphant as Liberty and in
Unity'"
The American Art Journal
(1986)
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Jean V. Matthews,
Toward a New Society: American Thought and Culture,
1800-1830
from Chapter One, "The Republic
and the Problem of Virtue"(1990)
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Stewart Justman,
The Hidden Text of Mill's Liberty from Chapter 5, "The Hidden
Dimension of Mill's Liberty
(1991)
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Vivien Green Fryd,
Art & Empire: the Politics of Ethnicity in the
United States Capitol, 1815-1860
from Chapter 8, "Liberty,
Justice, and Slavery"(1992)
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Eric Foner,
The Story of American Freedom
from Chapter 3, "An Empire of
Liberty" and Chapter 4, "The Boundaries of Freedom in the Young
Republic"(1998)
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Harold Holzer,
Lincoln: Seen and Heard
Chapter 9, "The Poetry and
Prose of the Emancipation Proclamation"(2000)
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David Hackett Fischer,
Liberty and Freedom
from "The Many Faces of Miss
Liberty"(2005)
Fiction
Historical Documents
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Thomas Jefferson, from Second
Inaugural Address
(1805)
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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Colonel William Duane(1811)
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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Coles(1814)
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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Jospeh C. Cabell(1816)
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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams(1821)
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François-René de Chateaubriand,
Travels in America
from "The Eastern
Cities"(1827)
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David Walker, from An
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
(1829)
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William Lloyd Garrison, from "An Address to the American
Colonization Society,"
(1829)
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Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
from Chapters XI, XIV, and XVIII(1835)
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Salmon Portland Chase and Charles Dexter Cleveland,
Anti-Slavery Addresses
(1844-1845)
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S.J. May, "The Liberty Bell is not of the
Liberty Party,"
Liberty Bell
(1845)
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S. Margaret Fuller, "The Liberty Bell,"
Liberty Bell
(1846)
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James Haughton, "Liberty,"
Liberty Bell
(1849)
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Ephraim Nute, Jr., "The Leaven of Liberty,"
Liberty Bell
(1851)
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Frederick Douglass, from "What to the Slave is the
Fourth of July?,"
(1852)
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John C. Calhoun, from A
Disquisition on Government
(1853)
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Frederick Douglass,
My Bondage and My Freedom
from Chapter XI, "A
Change"(1855)
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Austin Steward,
Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a
Freeman
from Chapter XI, "Thoughts on
Freedom"(1857)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The Emancipation
Proclamation,"
Miscellanies
(1862)
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Abraham Lincoln,
Final Emancipation Proclamation
(1863)
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Abraham Lincoln,
Gettysburg Address
(1863)
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Saum Song Bo, "A Chinese View of the Statue of
Liberty,"
(1885)
Illustrations and Cartoons
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B. Reading,
America Presenting at the Altar of Liberty Medallions
of Her Illustrious Sons
(1783)
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Jean Baptiste Huet,
America Paying Homage to France
(1783)
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America Trampling on Oppression
(1789)
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Jean Francis Renault,
The Triumph of Liberty
(1796)
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Edward Savage,
Liberty in the Form of the Goddess of Youth Giving
Support to the Bald Eagle
(1796)
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John James Barralet,
Apotheosis of George Washington
(1802)
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John Scoles,
Consecrated to the Memory of General Alexander
Hamilton
(1804)
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Goddess of Liberty with the Portrait of Jefferson
(1807)
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"God, Our Country and
Liberty,"
(1861)
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Alexander and Moritz Kann,
Emancipation Proclamation
(1863)
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In Memory of Abraham Lincoln
(c. 1865)
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"The Next Morning,"
Life
(1877)
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Root & Tinker,
Liberty Enlightening the World
(1883)
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"The Battery Park of the
Future—A Study for the Consideration of New Yorkers,"
The Evening Telegram
(1884)
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"The Arrival of
'Liberty',"
(c. 1884)
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"The Statue of Liberty One Thousand Years Later"
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
(1884)
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"Let the Advertising Agents Take
Charge of the Bartholdi Business, and the Money Will Be Raised Without
Delay,"
Puck
(1885)
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"A Hint to the Public,"
The Daily Graphic
(1885)
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"Liberty Enlightening the World as
to the Best Six-Cord Thread in the Market,"
(c. 1885)
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Grant Hamilton, "A Peep into the Future,"
Judge
(1886)
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"Puck's Patent Plan for a
Tremendous Tower at the Great Fair,"
Puck
(c. 1889)
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"If you're going to turn
this island into a garbage dump, I'm going back to France,"
Judge
(1890)
Paintings
Poetry
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Col. Willam Emmons,
The Battle of Bunker Hill, or, The Temple of
Liberty
from Canto IV(1839)
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John Pierpont, "The Liberty Bell,"
Liberty Bell
(1842)
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John Bowring, "The Liberty Bell,"
Liberty Bell
(1843)
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R.R.R. Moore, "The Liberty Bell,"
Liberty Bell
(1845)
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R.R. Madden, "The Liberty Bell,"
Liberty Bell
(1847)
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Martha Hempstead, "Liberty Bells,"
Liberty Bell
(1851)
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Various Authors,
Poetical Tributes to the Memory of Abraham
Lincoln
(1865)
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Walt Whitman, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloom'd,"
(1865)
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Walt Whitman, "The Centenarian's
Story,"
(1865)
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Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus,"
(1883)
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John Hay, "Liberty,"
(1900)
Sculpture
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John and Simeon Skillin, Jr., "Agriculture,"
"Liberty," and "Plenty,"
(1791)
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John and Simeon Skillin, Jr., "Liberty,"
(1796)
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Enrico Causici, "Liberty,"
(1825)
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Hiram Powers,
America
(1848-1850)
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Thomas Crawford, Model for Statue of Freedom
(1858)
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Franklin Simmons,
Peace Monument
(1877)
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Auguste Bartholdi,
The Statue of Liberty
(1886)
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens (sculptor) and
Stanford White (architect),
Garfield Memorial
(1896)
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J.J. Fernand Hamar,
Major General Comte Jean de Rochambeau
(1902)
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