![Fugitive Slave Act:] The Great Union Meeting in Philadelphia, On the 21st of November, 1850....](/pictures/thumb/3730133_1.jpg?v=1614219487)
Rare tract in support of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, printing an address and a letter by George M. Dallas (1792–1864) of Philadelphia, late..... Read More about Fugitive Slave Act:] The Great Union Meeting in Philadelphia, On the 21st of November, 1850....
Charles Frederick Fisher (1816–1861) President of the North Carolina Railroad, politician, and soldier. Here writing as a young journalist in support of the Democratic Party..... Read More about To the freemen of the Tenth Congressional District, Composed of the counties of Rowan, Davie,...
![Buckshot War] Report of the Committee Appointed to Enquire Into the Causes of the Disturbances at...](/pictures/thumb/3730192_2.jpg?v=1614103780)
The contentious election of 1838 in Pennsylvania resulted in Whig and the Democratic parties each claiming sole control of the House of Representatives. A mob..... Read More about Buckshot War] Report of the Committee Appointed to Enquire Into the Causes of the Disturbances at...
Exasperated letter from Marcus Morton (1784–1864), former Democratic Massachusetts governor and Supreme Court judge, decrying the state of the Democratic party. Morton opposed the extension..... Read More about 1851 Autograph Letter Signed by Marcus Morton, Massachusetts Governor, Supreme Court Judge, and...
“Resolutions adopted by the Democratic State Central Convention, held at Worcester, September 18th, 1850…” The resolutions concerned the statesman George S. Boutwell to be put..... Read More about Address of the Democratic State Central Committee to the People of Massachusetts
![History of the American Flag:] 62d Congress, 1st Session. H. Con. Res. 16. In the House of...](/pictures/thumb/3729940_1.jpg?v=1610402761)
A concurrent resolution likely put forth by California Representative Everis Anson Ayes “prescribing a new form for the American flag.” Hayes first introduced this resolution..... Read More about History of the American Flag:] 62d Congress, 1st Session. H. Con. Res. 16. In the House of...
![History of the American Flag:] 63d Congress, 1st Session. H. Con. Res. 6. In the House of...](/pictures/thumb/3729939_1.jpg?v=1610402761)
A concurrent resolution likely put forth by California Representative Everis Anson Ayes “prescribing a new form for the American flag.” Hayes had first introduced this..... Read More about History of the American Flag:] 63d Congress, 1st Session. H. Con. Res. 6. In the House of...
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
Biased biographical guide to those legislators of the United States Congress, 68th, 1st session, 1923-1924, many who are seen as antithetical to Protestant interests and/or..... Read More about The Protestant Who’s Who in Congress. Records of National Senators and Representatives on...
1833 Letter to U.S. Secretary of War Lewis Cass from Dr. Robert Mayo, a U.S. Treasury official, likely concerning the first compilation of U.S. pension..... Read More about 1833 ALS to U.S. Secretary of War Lewis Cass from U.S. Treasury Official, Dr. Robert Mayo,...
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
![C.1902 Pennsylvania Election Polling Place Broadside:] Instructions to Voters and Election...](/pictures/thumb/3729832_1.jpg?v=1604510047)
Pursuant to an Act of the Pennsylvania Assembly concerning elections, the state required that sections of that Act pertaining to voting procedures, ballots, voters, and..... Read More about C.1902 Pennsylvania Election Polling Place Broadside:] Instructions to Voters and Election Officers
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
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...
![Negro Policeman Kicked by Roosevelt’s Secretary. [caption title]. Republican National...](/pictures/thumb/3729798_1.jpg?v=1604510043)
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
![Volk-Songs Translated From the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum [and] Selections From...](/pictures/thumb/141254_1.jpg?v=1599682802)
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
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
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...
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...
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...
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
![1781 Autograph Document Signed of Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, as Lawyer in Private Practice]....](/pictures/thumb/3726366_1.jpg?v=1582068561)
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
![Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]. Francis Butler...](/pictures/thumb/3728721_1.jpg?v=1596739704)
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
