Assessment of Abraham Lincoln’s mind on the questions of slavery and the emancipation of 3.5 million enslaved African Americans, published just over 50 years after..... Read More about President Lincoln’s Attitude toward Slavery and Emancipation. With a Review of Events Before...
![Once I could Vote, Too! [Willkie War Veterans National Committee, WWII poster]. Willkie War...](/pictures/thumb/3731812_1.jpg?v=1648176459)
A 1940 presidential campaign poster for Wendell Willkie, the Democrat-turned-Republican activist and lawyer from Indiana. Here, American war veteran supporters of Willkie back his European..... Read More about Once I could Vote, Too! [Willkie War Veterans National Committee, WWII poster
From the library of Fletcher Green, Southern Historian. An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American South and Southern..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
“Bartlett also became known as a loyal defender of John Quincy Adams’s administration, especially in February 1828 when the Jacksonians accused the president of spending..... Read More about Remarks of Mr. Bartlett, of N. Hamp. [caption title of 1820s Speech of Ichabod Bartlett of New...
An attack on President Andrew Jackson’s “spoils system” and his “Office Harpies” by Mary Chase Barney, an outspoken Baltimorean, and later magazine-founder and editor. After..... Read More about Mrs. Barney’s Letter, To Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, in reply to one from...
“Slavery was a social and an economic institution of such power that it sustained and extended an economic system whose demands went far to determine..... Read More about Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia
Densely written 1841 letter from Cincinnati, Ohio on U.S. President-elect and Cincinnatan, William Henry Harrison (1773–1841), offering political insights and commentary on post-election patronage, writing..... Read More about Post-1840 U.S. Presidential Election Autograph Letter Signed from Cincinnati, commenting on...
First edition and nicely inscribed by the author, a prominent historian, on the title page. “Lincoln became Lincoln because of the Negro, and it was..... Read More about Lincoln and the Negro. (Signed
![Harry S. Truman:] Come On, Movie-Goers Let’s Finish the Job! [Two Post-Second World War...](/pictures/thumb/3729955_1.jpg?v=1610392077)
Two immediate post-WW II American movie theater posters advertising and promoting the sale of U.S. Treasury bonds during the early presidency of Harry S. Truman..... Read More about Harry S. Truman:] Come On, Movie-Goers Let’s Finish the Job! [Two Post-Second World War...
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Unrecorded 1940 Republican U.S. Presidential campaign handbill or small broadside enlisting the Black vote issued in the aftermath of a “shocking ” and, as suggested..... Read More about Negro Policeman Kicked by Roosevelt’s Secretary. [caption title
“In The Jefferson Scandals: A Rebuttal, Virginius Dabney, former editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, winner of the Pulitzer Prize ... presents his inquiry into the..... Read More about The Jefferson Scandals, A Rebuttal
“The Wolf by the Ears brings us closer to the workings of Jefferson’s mind on the slavery issue than any other book.” (dust jacket) New..... Read More about The Wolf by the Ears, Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
Contemporary Eastern Shore, Maryland newspaper printing of George Washington’s eighth and final State of the Union Address. His address was delivered to Congress in Philadelphia..... Read More about 1796 George Washington Final State of the Union Address published in Easton, Maryland’s...
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WWI-era poster calling on operators and workers “to assume the burden of producing an ample supply of coal” to win the war: “The existing scarcity..... Read More about Mine More Coal, President Wilson Demands Coal to Win the War. [caption title
![Excerpts from Rooseveltian Fact and Fable; with Addenda. [Theodore Roosevelt]. Mrs. Annie Riley Hale](/pictures/thumb/3728372.jpg?v=1592939172)
Mrs. Hale devotes her energies in writing this anti-Theodor Roosevelt volume. The back cover, printed in red lettering, quotes a (damning, in the eyes of..... Read More about Excerpts from Rooseveltian Fact and Fable; with Addenda. [Theodore Roosevelt
![Standard Abraham Lincoln Bibliography:] Collections of the Illinois State Historical...](/pictures/thumb/3728022_1.jpg?v=1544633426)
The standard bibliography on Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth U.S. President, “Great Emancipator” of enslaved Black Americans, and hero-martyr of the American Civil War. “Five major bibliographies..... Read More about Standard Abraham Lincoln Bibliography:] Collections of the Illinois State Historical...
![Hoover for President. Mass Meeting… [opening lines of Pennsylvania broadside]. Herbert Hoover](/pictures/thumb/3728048_1.jpg?v=1542668616)
A rare broadside broadcasting a “Mass Meeting” to campaign for presidential candidate Herbert Hoover in the Fall of 1928. The rally took place in Clearfield..... Read More about Hoover for President. Mass Meeting… [opening lines of Pennsylvania broadside
Select bibliography of books about Abraham Lincoln including writings and speeches, biographies, and monographs and special studies. Compiled by Lincoln authority, Paul Angle, former executive..... Read More about A Shelf of Lincoln Books. A Critical, Selective Bibliography of Lincolniana
![President Harding Mourned in New Jersey:] Memorial Service for Warren Gamaliel Harding ... 1923...](/pictures/thumb/3727503_1.jpg?v=1591818993)
Program of a memorial service held in National Park, New Jersey for Democrat Warren G. Harding of Ohio (1865–1923), the 29th President of the United..... Read More about President Harding Mourned in New Jersey:] Memorial Service for Warren Gamaliel Harding ... 1923...
![Abraham Lincoln] “A Crime Without a Name.” April 14, 1865. Eugene Munday](/pictures/thumb/3726712_1.jpg?v=1534362447)
Undoubtedly composed and printed within days of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, this sorrowful tribute takes its name from the April 15, 1865 newspaper headline..... Read More about Abraham Lincoln] “A Crime Without a Name.” April 14, 1865
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Unrecorded on OCLC, a rare and ephemeral campaign biography throwaway from the 1888 New York gubernatorial race which re-elected sitting-Governor David B. Hill to a...... Read More about 1892 U.S. Presidential Candidate:] An Outline of the Official Life and Public Services of His...
![Washington Family Estate Settlement: Armistead v. Armistead and Armistead v. Dandrige]. Jno. M....](/pictures/thumb/3726263_1.jpg?v=1550610381)
Manuscript group primarily concerned with the case of Armistead v. Dandridge, a drawn out Virginia lawsuit with roots in the eighteenth century. Much information on..... Read More about Washington Family Estate Settlement: Armistead v. Armistead and Armistead v. Dandrige
![The Avenue of the Allies and Victory [Zelia Hoffman; her copy]. Alfred Noyes, Childe Hassam,...](/pictures/thumb/3725044_1.jpg?v=1654200427)
World War I poems by English poet Alfred Noyes, finely printed and bound, published by the Book Committee of the Art War Relief in New..... Read More about The Avenue of the Allies and Victory [Zelia Hoffman; her copy
