Gouverneur High School was incorporated in 1828 in St. Lawrence County, New York. Out of it grew Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, conducted by the Black River..... Read More about Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Gouverneur High School, for the Year ending July 10th,...
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Two academic catalogues for Amenia Seminary founded in 1835 in Ameniaville (now Amenia), Dutchess County, New York. The co-educational Methodist school was an outgrowth of..... Read More about Two Editions:] Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Amenia Seminary, for the Academic Year...
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In the U.S. Presidential election of 1852, committeemen of the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention opposed the abolition of slavery. They decried their party’s alignment with..... Read More about Slavery:] Address to the Democratic Electors of Massachusetts, from the State Committee appointed...
Printed in small type and densely filled with the doings of the College. The announcement summarizes the upcoming course of lectures on medical, anatomical, and..... Read More about Fiftieth Annual Announcement of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. The Session of...
Scarce pamphlet from the early days of the Western University of Pennsylvania, now known as “Pitt” –the University of Pittsburgh. “The University’s buildings, along with..... Read More about The System Of Education, the Code of Discipline, and the Professorships, Adopted by the Trustees...
Speech in praise of the art of oratory delivered at the Philological Institute in Pittsburgh by attorney William B. McClure (1807–1861). McClure read for the..... Read More about Address delivered before the Philological Institute, on the Eighth of December, 1838, the...
Speech by attorney and Western University of Pennsylvania alumnus, Samuel W. Black (1816–1862), to the school’s Tilghman Literary Society. Black subsequently became a judge and..... Read More about An Address delivered before the Tilghman Literary Society, of the Western University of...
Speech by Rev. Gilbert Morgan, one-term president of the Western University of Pennsylvania, now the University of Pittsburgh. Morgan authored the Report on Public Instruction..... Read More about The Inaugural Address, of the Rev. Gilbert Morgan, President of the Western University of...
The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc. was founded in 1915 by Black historian and prolific author Carter G. Woodson, “The..... Read More about Home Study Department of the Extension Division of The Association for the Study of Negro Life...
Printed circular and subscription announcing to Pittsburgh’s citizens a meeting of the Board of Trustees to raise money to hire Gilbert Morgan the second chancellor..... Read More about To the Public. [1835 Circular for the Western University of Pennsylvania, now the University of...
Subscription circular announcing a gathering of Pittsburgh’s citizens and trustees appointing Gilbert Morgan the second chancellor of what is today Pitt, i.e., University of Pittsburgh..... Read More about 1835 Subscription Circular for the Western University of Pennsylvania, now the University of...
First monograph ever of a Black American artist (Anne Monahan, op. cited); a survey of the paintings of self-taught painter Horace Pippin (1888–1946). The well-illustrated..... Read More about Horace Pippin, A Negro Painter in America
Rare address by Dr. Chapin A. Harris (1806–1860)—the “Father of American Dental Science”—to the American Society of Dental Surgeons. Founded in 1840, the ASDS was..... Read More about Address Delivered Before the American Society of Dental Surgeons, At the opening of its Fourth...
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First issue of a Marxist quarterly magazine distributed by the Labor Youth League of New York City. With articles on Stalin, the new Eisenhower administration..... Read More about Youth Review. Spring 1953. [Vol 1. No. 1
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This is the original dissertation by Simkins, which was later published. A study of white supremacist South Carolina politician and later Democratic governor and U.S...... Read More about The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Dissertation
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Josiah T. Walls (1842–1905) was the first African American Congressman from Florida, and the only one, until Corrine Brown’s victory in 1992. This lengthy text..... Read More about First Black Florida Congressman:] Papers in the Case of Jesse J. Finley vs. Josiah T. Walls....
Paton’s “absorbing book presents more effectively than any other the long, strained relations with the government of South Africa and its black citizens. His subject..... Read More about Cry, the Beloved Country. (Signed by the Author
Ephemera group, mostly from Hagerstown, Maryland; principally, 10 musical and choral programs from 1916 to 1920. Sponsoring organizations include the Choral Society of Hagerstown, Concert..... Read More about 1887–1951, Collection of Hagerstown, Maryland Ephemera, mostly for Musical and Choral Performances
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Letter by Georgetown College student Louis A. Greneaux, writing in French to his male friend Dranquet, discussing his family in Louisiana and expressing satisfaction with..... Read More about 1853 Autograph Letter Signed by Georgetown College Student Louis A. Greneaux of Louisiana
Joint letter recommending Joseph Lambert as Night Inspector in the U.S. Custom House in New York City. The letter is addressed to Heman J. Redfield..... Read More about 1853 Joint Letter Signed by New York Congressman Elijah Ward and Prominent New Yorkers Col. Ward...
1853 letter concerning the rights of public use of or benefit from a small stretch of Niagara Riverfront land and a wharf by Augustus S...... Read More about 1853 ALS by Augustus S. Porter, former U.S. Senator from Michigan and Mayor of Detroit,...
Frank letter discussing various members of the prominent Carroll Family of Maryland who have lately arrived at Boston’s upscale Revere House hotel. Likely at Harvard..... Read More about 1849 Autograph Letter Signed Discussing the Carroll Family of Maryland by Charles Ridgely,...
Report on the murder of Union soldiers in South Carolina, a capital case touching on habeas corpus and the jurisdiction of military courts in the..... Read More about Murder of Union Soldiers [caption title of U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee Report
Senator and slaveholder Henry Clay of Kentucky discusses slavery in the the District of Columbia, the impediments to the immediate abolition of slavery, and the..... Read More about Speech of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, on the Subject of Abolition Petitions. Delivered in the Senate...
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“Contains the secret debate in the U.S. Congress on whether the U.S. should attend the first inter-American conference called by Bolivar to establish a confederation..... Read More about Latin America:] Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, Delivered in the Senate of the United States...
