Ten thousand dollar bond signed on January 13, 1873 by Georgia Secretary of State, Nathan Crawford Barnett binding himself to the Reconstruction Governor of Georgia..... Read More about 1873 Bond Signed by Georgia Reconstruction Governor James M. Smith for Nathan C. Barnett, Georgia...
Political memorabilia satirizing the “Greenback” Party likely issued during the U.S. Presidential election of 1880. The small, printed leaf imitates the shape and design of..... Read More about C.1880 Uncle Sam Satirical “Greenback” Political Bank Note
“Magnificently coarse” and a formidable Philadelphia Boss and Senator, Boies Penrose (1860–1921), i.e. “Big Grizzly,” dominated the Gilded Age world of Pennsylvania Republican politics for..... Read More about C.1895–1922 Archive of U.S. Senatorial Letters and Papers kept by Republican “Boss,” Boies...
“Counterfeit” edition of this 1860 Confederate imprint originally published in Charleston, South Carolina by “Evans & Cogswell, Printers to the Convention” which famously prints the..... Read More about Declaration of the Immediate Cause which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from...
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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...
Speech of U.S. Senator David Barton (1783–1837) of Missouri concerning debate on an appropriation bill. Barton takes his colleague, Senator Hugh L. White of Tennessee..... Read More about Speech of Mr. Barton, of Missouri, in Reply to Mr. White, of Tennessee, Upon the Appropriation...
Future Gettysburg orator Edward Everett is irritated and writes this one-page letter to Nathaniel Greene, Postmaster. Everett is irked as he was sent an unsolicited..... Read More about 1840 Autograph Letter Signed by Edward Everett, future Gettysburg Orator
Printed in double columns, an important documentary history of Reconstruction, 1865–1870, prepared by Edward McPherson (1830–1895), two-term Civil War Congressman from Pennsylvania, some time Clerk..... Read More about The Political History of the United States of America during the Period of...
Ohio newspaper extra attacking noted anti-slavery, Free Soil Party Congressman Joshua R. Giddings (1795–1864) of Ohio for abusing his Congressional travel mileage allowance. Cleverly using..... Read More about “Let Freemen Read!” Joshua R. Giddings’ Falsehoods Repelled! [opening lines of broadside...
Original editorial cartoon drawing depicting the Tammany Tiger of New York City’s Democratic Party political machine. The political cartoon is signed at the lower left..... Read More about Original 1897 Tammany Tiger Political Cartoon by F.K. Houston
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A biography of one of the most divisive figures in South Carolina’s history: Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847–1918) a.k.a. Pitchfork Ben, white supremacist governor of South..... Read More about Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian. [Inscribed and Signed by Author
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Study of white supremacist South Carolina politician and later Democratic governor and U.S. Senator, Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918), and the popular movement he championed. This copy..... Read More about The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Inscribed Copy
Quotation on law handwritten by German-American Francis Lieber (1798 or 1800–1872), legal and political theorist and author of the Lieber Code on the conduct of..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Quotation Signed on Law by Francis Lieber, German-American Jurist, Author of...
Rare broadside proclamation by Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia, declaring his dedication to German unity. The broadside was issued in the immediate aftermath of..... Read More about An die Deutsche Nation! Eine neue glorreiche Geschichte hebt mit dem heutigen Tage für Euch an!...
Includes examinations of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Federal and various state constitutions. Six appendices including “Negroes on the Navy,”..... Read More about An Historical Research respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as...
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...
Biography of Republican politician and U.S. Senator Benjamin Franklin “Bluff” Wade (1800–1878) of Ohio. As a member of the Radical Republican faction, Wade was an..... Read More about Benjamin Franklin Wade, Radical Republican from Ohio
Letter signed by this influential Boston politician, in the closing months of his life, here writing to a Mrs. Pepper, possibly the wife of Pennsylvania..... Read More about 1924 Autograph Letter Signed by Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican senator and Massachusetts Historian
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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
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Selective and Critical Bibliography of Horace Mann p10: “Contains speeches and letters delivered or written during Mann’s Congressional term [...]; letter written in answer to..... Read More about Slavery: Letters and Speeches. [Inscribed and Signed
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A study of Abraham Lincoln’s political liberalism presented as a series of essays examining such topics as the dilemma over Fort Sumter, constitutional law, the..... Read More about Lincoln the Liberal Statesman. [Inscribed by the Author
Over four years before John Brown’s “raid” on the Harpers Ferry armory, the town is already a fault line. Unrecorded “Know Nothing” or American Party..... Read More about To the Voters of the 8th Congressional District. [opening lines of 1855 Harpers Ferry, Virginia...
Published for the first time, the autobiography of this remarkable man born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation. Lynch rose to become Speaker of the..... Read More about Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch
Study of Abraham Lincoln’s pre-presidency and his evolving political positions on the issue of slavery. With a handy “Political Calendar” providing a digest of Lincoln’s..... Read More about Lincoln & The Politics of Slavery
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Manuscript receipt acknowledging receiving 30 pounds, autographed by this American lawyer and patriot. Princeton native Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant (1746 –1793), attended Princeton, represented New Jersey..... Read More about 1781 Autograph Document Signed of Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, as Lawyer in Private Practice
