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...again the rebels rushed furiously on our men. -a Hessian soldier
Jacob Lawrence
1954
Massacre in Boston
Jacob Lawrence
1955
Trappers
Jacob Lawrence
1956
I cannot speak sufficiently in praise of the firmness and deliberation with which my whole line received their approach... -Andrew Jackson, New Orleans, 1815
Jacob Lawrence
1956
The Photographer
Jacob Lawrence
1942
There are combustibles in every State, which a spark might set fire to. --Washington, 26 December 1786
Jacob Lawrence
1956
...we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honour - 4 July 1776
Jacob Lawrence
1955
Listen, Father! The Americans have not yet defeated us by land; neither are we sure they have done so by water--we therefore wish to remain here and fight our enemy... Tecumseh to the British, Tippecanoe, 1811
Jacob Lawrence
1956
I shall hazard much and can possibly gain nothering by the issue of this interview... Hamilton before his duel with Burr, 1804
Jacob Lawrence
1956
Peace
Jacob Lawrence
1956
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility...
Jacob Lawrence
1955
Pool Parlor
Jacob Lawrence
1942
Rally Mohawks! Bring out your axes and tell King George we'll pay no taxes on his foreign tea....-a song of 1773
Jacob Lawrence
1955
And a Woman Mans a Cannon
Jacob Lawrence
1955
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country. -Thomas Paine, 1776
Jacob Lawrence
1955
One-way ticket
Langston Hughes
1949
Defeat
Jacob Lawrence
1954
Thousands of American citizens have been torn from their country and from everying dear to them: they have been dragged on board ships of ward of a foreign nation. -Madison, 1 June 1812
Jacob Lawrence
1956
Of the Senate House, the President's Palace, the barracks, the dockyard ... nothing could be seen except heaps of smoking ruins.... -A British Officer at Washington, 1814
Jacob Lawrence
1956
Victory and Defeat
Jacob Lawrence
1955
...if we fail, let us fail like men, and expire together in one common strugge... -Henry Clay, 1813
Jacob Lawrence
1956
In all of your intercourse with the natives, treat them in the most friendly and conciliatory manner which thier own conduct will admit... Jefferson to Lewis & Clark, 1803
Jacob Lawrence
1956
...is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the prices of chains and slavery? Patrick Henry-1775
Jacob Lawrence
1955
We have no property! We have no wives! No children! We have no city! No country! -Petition of many slaves
Jacob Lawrence
1955
The Shoemaker
Jacob Lawrence
1945
120.9.14.286.9.33-ton 290.9.27 be at 153.9.28.110.8.17.255.9.29 evening 178.9.8... -an informer's coded message
Jacob Lawrence
1955
I alarmed almost every house till I got to Lexington-Paul Revere
Jacob Lawrence
1954
...for freedom we want and will have, for we have served this cruel land long enuff... -a Georgia slave, 1810
Jacob Lawrence
1956
Blind Beggars
Jacob Lawrence
1938
We crossed the River at McKonkey's Ferry 9 miles above Trenton ... the night was excessively severe ... which the men bore without the least murmur...-Tench Tilghman, 27 December 1776/Struggle Series - No. 10: Washington Crossing the Delaware
Jacob Lawrence
1954