Autobiography of Howard Thurman (1899?–1981), theologian, educator, author, and civil rights mentor. Thurman taught at Howard University and worked behind the scenes with many important..... Read More about With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman
First edition. A handsome copy. A review of the epistolary debate between two Baptist clergymen conducted in 1844–1845 in a Boston newspaper, the Christian Reflector..... Read More about A Review of the “Correspondence” of Messrs. Fuller & Wayland, on the Subject of American...
Victorian Female Journalist vs. Same. Elizabeth Bisland’s 1891 account of her “race around-the-world” to beat another “Elizabeth” —Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman— better known as Nelly Bly..... Read More about A Flying Trip Around the World ... In Seven Stages
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African American history for school students written by Carter G. Woodson, “The Father of Black History”. Woodson begins the book with the African Diaspora and..... Read More about The Story of the Negro Retold. [Second Edition
Biography of Richard Allen (1760–1831), once-enslaved, the African American, preacher, hymn book publisher, founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church (A.M.E.). The..... Read More about Richard Allen, Apostle of Freedom
First edition, first printing. McKnight won the O. Henry Award and the Kenyon Review New Fiction Prize for “The Kind of Light That Shines on..... Read More about The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas. Stories by Reginald McKnight
Anthology of essays on the military experiences of African Americans from the days of the Spanish Conquistadors up to 1918. Includes examinations of four all-Black..... Read More about The Black Military Experience in the American West
Published in the centennial year of the ratification of the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the work examines the impact on African Americans of..... Read More about The Fifteenth Amendment and Black America, 1870 - 1970
First edition. An authoritative treatise of the Freedmen’s Bureau’s activities in South Carolina. From the preface, “...I have raised some points about what might have..... Read More about The Freedmen’s Bureau in South Carolina 1865-1872
A facsimile edition of the 1929 first edition. Profusely illustrated and with an in-depth history of the potters and potteries specific to this region of..... Read More about The Shenandoah Pottery
All of the information one would need to keep a hunting preserve operating in good order. London: Published by Baldwin, Craddock and Joy; Colchester: Swinborne..... Read More about The Sportsman’s Directory; or, Park and Gamekeeper’s Companion: Containing Instructions for...
Early eighteenth-century treatise of the care of horses written, in fact, by William Burdon and not Henry Bracken, here seen as Blacken.) The work proved..... Read More about The Gentleman’s Pocket-Farrier, with Large Additions and Remarks by Dr. Henry Blacken of Lancaster
A pleasing copy of a late Roycrofters. Carpenter was accompanied on his African big game hunting safari by the able-bodied famous white hunters, Don Ker..... Read More about My African Safari. (Walter S. Carpenter, Jr.’s copy
In a 19th-century armorial binding stamped with the family arms and crest of General Lambert Loveday. His large armorial bookplate is mounted inside the front..... Read More about The Cook’s Oracle; Containing receipts for plain cookery, on the most economical plan for...
Photo documentation of a little-remembered international Franco-American event. In 1927, special trains and ocean lines were chartered to bring almost 10,000 American Legionnaires to Paris..... Read More about Nine Real Photo Postcards from the American Legion Parade at the 1927 National Convention in Paris
This 1896 patent for powdered chocolate milk beverages is handwritten in German and English. The patent, 17153, was issued to Carl Rach by the Imperial..... Read More about Chocolate Milk in America: An 1896 Handwritten Patent for Processing Cocoa by Carl Rach of Chicago
The front and center article, in 1½ columns, describes the chaotic events in Mauch Chunk, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, coal country. This “Irish, Welch and German..... Read More about Molly Maguires) The Pennsylvania Coal Mines ... Buckshots and the Molly McGuires on the Rampage....
“Mrs. Kingman, If you please, Think of me, at twilight hour, And I will think of thee.” The Osgoods of Cincinnatus, New York, John Osgood..... Read More about 1836–1840 friendship album owned by Mary S. Osgood of Cincinnatus, New York and then owned by...
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Heinecke’s book was first published in 1869 and then expanded 12 years later, with this edition. Contrary to its title, Heinecke’s “brief account” of his..... Read More about Presentation Copy] Genealogy from Adam to Christ, with the Genealogy Genealogy of Adam Heineck...
An attractive copy of this scarce 1802 New England edition of Young’s Poem as printed by the ever-enterprising firm of Nathaniel Coverly. Three poetical “endorsements”..... Read More about A Poem on the Last Day. In Three Books
Well-illustrated from original photographs. This season’s report is devoted to the numerous sick infants brought on board Boston’s floating hospital, many in need of immediate..... Read More about Boston Floating Hospital ... Season of 1902. [cover title
Proto-Tide laundry detergent. Magical and astonishing, Perlee’s fluid, by his account, practically washed your clothes for you. The soap wasn’t that magical —one had to..... Read More about Perlee’s Magic, Labor-Saving, Money-Saving, Clothes-Saving, Washing Bleaching and Cleansing...
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Gilbert Livingston understood the system well. His grandfather was Robert Livingston the Elder, the first Lord of Livingston Manor, and one of the wealthiest man..... Read More about New York State Anti-Rent War Antecedents] 1786 Lease on Mortgage, Indenture between Samuel...
The 1862-dated discharge paper for Edwin A. Collins (b.1819), a forty-three year-old shoemaker-turned-musician and native of Salem County, New Jersey. Collins was one of eleven..... Read More about To All Whom it May Concern, Know Ye, that Edwin A. Collins, a Musician of the Fifth Regiment of...
Firs published in 1799, an especially lovely copy of this 1844 reprint edition that gave readers a description of daily life in west Africa. “Park..... Read More about The Life and Travels of Mungo Park; with the Account of his Death from the Journal of Isaaco, the...
