12 posters · 1215 to 1962
History & philosophy
Charters, declarations and speeches that changed history: Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the rights of man and of woman, Gettysburg, and texts of philosophy.
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History & philosophy
Magna Carta
King John of England, 1215
The charter of liberties granted by King John to the barons of England at Runnymede in June 1215.
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History & philosophy
Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum
Martin Luther, 1517
Luther’s ninety-five Latin theses against the preaching of indulgences, proposed for a disputation at Wittenberg in 1517.
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History & philosophy
Pensées: Grandeur de l’homme
Blaise Pascal, 1670
Pascal’s fragment on man as a thinking reed, whose whole dignity lies in thought.
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The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson, Second Continental Congress, 1776
The Continental Congress declares the thirteen colonies independent of Great Britain and lists their grievances against the King.
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Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?
Immanuel Kant, 1784
Kant’s essay defining enlightenment as man’s emergence from self-incurred immaturity and defending the free public use of reason.
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Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen de 1789
Assemblée nationale, 1789
The preamble and seventeen articles of rights adopted by the French National Assembly in August 1789.
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Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne
Olympe de Gouges, 1791
Olympe de Gouges’s seventeen articles on the rights of woman, modelled on the Declaration of 1789, with a postamble.
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The Bill of Rights
First Congress of the United States, 1791
The first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States, ratified on December 15, 1791.
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Décret relatif à l’abolition de l’esclavage dans les colonies et possessions françaises
Gouvernement provisoire de la République française, 1848
The French Provisional Government abolishes slavery in all French colonies and possessions and forbids French citizens to own slaves.
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History & philosophy
The Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln, 1863
Lincoln’s proclamation declaring free the persons held as slaves within the States then in rebellion.
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History & philosophy
The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln, 1863
Lincoln’s address at the dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, in the final text he wrote out in 1864.
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History & philosophy
Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort
John F. Kennedy, 1962
President Kennedy explains why the United States chooses to go to the Moon in this decade.
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