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- History of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Second Regiment, Bucktail Brigade
- Considered one of the best regimental histories of the civil war, Chamberlin records the actions and characters of his regiment, the 150th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
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- Autobiography, Memories and Experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway, vol.1
- Moncure Conway, an influential observer and participant in much of English-speaking intellectual life for half a century, presents an account of his life, drawn together towards the end of his eventful days.
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- The Underground Rail Road
- Antislavery movements--History
- William Still, clerk for the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society for fourteen years, publishes an account of the Underground Railroad based on his personal notes.
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- Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion
- James Buchanan outlines the development of the great crisis that culminated in the outbreak of the Civil War at the end of his presidency. He places the polarizing issue of slavery at the center of turmoil, commenting on decades of hardening views...
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- Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper, An
- In April 1800, Thomas Cooper is tried in federal court in Philadelphia for libel against the President of the United States under the new Sedition Act of 1798. Cooper proceeds to publish all documents and transcripts, along with commentary, as soon...
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- Life and Literature in the Fatherland
- John F. Hurst, the young Methodist pastor, recounts his years in northern Germany between 1866 and 1871 where he served as a theological tutor, and later director, in the Methodist Mission Institute there.
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- Essays, Literary, Moral & Philosophical
- In 1798, Benjamin Rush collects twenty-five of his previous writings and republishes them in a single volume. The essays range in topic from education and crime and punishment to tobacco use and the slave trade.
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- Sixteen Introductory Lectures to Courses of Lectures Upon the Institutes and Practice of Medicine . . . Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania
- Presented here is a comprehensive version of Benjamin Rush's introductory lectures at the University of Pennsylvania's Medical School, including syllabi.
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- Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney, LL.D.
- With prior approval of the Chief Justice himself, Samuel Tyler authors a biographical account of his colleague Roger Brooke Taney.
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- Marcus Junius Parrott, Personal Journal (1846-1851, 1857)
- Marcus Junius Parrott records his thoughts and activities as a college student in Ohio, then in Pennsylvania at Dickinson College (graduating in 1849), and as a law student thereafter at Cambridge Law School.
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- Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania: To the Inhabitants of the British Colonies
- In a series of fourteen letters widely published in late 1767 and early 1768, John Dickinson counsels leaders on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean on the economic folly and unconstitutionality of new British revenue laws that ignore the rights of...
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- Old Time Notes of Pennsylvania: Volume I
- The first volume of McClure’s work details the important political and social events in Pennsylvania dating from the 19th century.
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- Charles Nisbet, Lecture Notes (1789)
- Samuel Mahon, a college student during the spring of 1789, records verbatim a series of 68 lectures on economics, lectures 133 through 200 of the capstone senior course titled Moral Philosophy, as delivered by Charles Nisbet, President of Dickinson...
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- Emerson at Home and Abroad
- Moncure Conway pays homage to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the man who had been his mentor, his inspiration, and his friend.
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- Necklace of Stories, A
- Moncure Conway, the famous deist, provides a series of small stories that focus on the harmful aspects of superstition when applied to religious belief.
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- Republican Superstitions as Illustrated in the Political History of America
- Using examples from the current Grant Administration, Moncure Conway outlines what he sees as structural weaknesses in the American political system.
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- Slaveholding Not Sinful. Slavery, the Punishment of Man's Sin, Its Remedy, the Gospel of Christ
- Samuel Blanchard How, in support of southern congregation applications to join, gives an address before the 1855 General Synod of the German Reformed Church defending slavery. This second edition contains that address, further arguments, and...
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- Horatio Collins King, Civil War Journal (1864-1865)
- The divisional quartermaster under General Sheridan, Horatio Collins King keeps a personal journal during the last year of the Civil War, recording cavalry activities in the Shenandoah Valley, and later the adjustments made in returning to civilian...
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- Thomas William Dick Correspondence (1861-1864)
- A young infantryman serving in the 41st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserves, Thomas W. Dick writes to his father, mother, and siblings during his participation in training, recruiting, and then fighting during the American Civil War.
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- Battle of Gettysburg; a Comprehensive Narrative, The
- Jesse Bowman Young provides a comprehensive account of the Battle of Gettysburg where he himself fought as a young officer fifty years earlier. This work is particularly valuable for its many biographical sketches of officers and for the copious...
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