“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...
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Rare. No copies recorded in America. Translated by Henry Phillips, Jr. Hugo von Meltzel’s or Meltzl’s work is the first English translation of Romanian folk..... Read More about Volk-Songs Translated From the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum [and] Selections From...
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
The complete record of one of the most important correspondences in American history. “An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence..... Read More about The Adams-Jefferson Letters, The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and...
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
Chapters include “The Negro in the Senate,” “The Negro in the House of Representatives during Reconstruction, 1877–1901,” and “Unsuccessful Negro Aspirants for Congress.” The author..... Read More about The Negro in Congress, 1870–1901
An examination of the Versailles Treaty that ended the First World War with a particular focus on the “Armenia Question.” The author, Rayford Whittingham Logan..... Read More about The Senate and the Versailles Mandate System
Biography of Robert Smalls of South Carolina who liberated himself from slavery during the Civil War and went on to become an important South Carolina..... Read More about From Slavery to Public Service, Robert Smalls 1839–1915
Original ink, wash, and pencil drawing of Yale College and the old Connecticut Capitol. The scene was drawn from the perspective of Chapel and College..... Read More about Colleges, and State House; New Haven. [caption of original drawing of Yale College and the...
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...
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...
Biography of Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882) of Maine. Pike was the author of The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882. [inscribed and signed by...
Blunt political document by women, aimed at women and illustrated by a woman. Political broadside aimed at women voting in Maryland’s gubernatorial election of 1930..... Read More about “The Monarch” [caption title of 1930 illustrated Maryland women’s political broadside...
Political broadside issued by the Baltimore City Federation of Republican Women, aimed at women voters. It attacks the president of Johns Hopkins University, Joseph S...... Read More about Women Want Information [caption title of c.1929–1935 illustrated women’s broadside attacking...
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...
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...
First book by Ralph Bunche, the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize by bringing the Israel and Arab states to agreement; a civil..... Read More about A World View of Race
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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
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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
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...
Declaration of association signed by 51 Philadelphia merchants or firms against “Agents of European houses trading to this Country…” The merchants state plainly that these..... Read More about 1790 Philadelphia Merchants’ and Importers’ Declaration of Association against European Agents
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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
Medical, biological, and pathological investigations in Liberia and the Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo) with an emphasis on infectious and tropical diseases in humans..... Read More about The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo. Based on the Observations Made and...
Between these two volumes are twenty-three titles, either unrecorded or (if in American institutions) thinly-held. One title worth mentioning, an anomaly of the group, is..... Read More about 1736–1829: Two Sammelbands with Twenty-Three Pamphlets of Famous Dwarfs, Pro-Tory,...
