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1795-1895. One hundred years of American commerce ... a history of American commerce by one hundred Americans, with a chronological table of the important events of American commerce and invention within the past one hundred yeras

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Author: Depew, Chauncey M.

Date of Publication: 1968.

Call Number: 380 D419

Alternate Title: One hundred years of American commerce

Responsibility: ed. by Chauncey M. Depew ... Issued in commemoration of the completion of the first century of American commercial progress as inaugurated by the treaty ... negotiated by Chief Justice Jay and approved by President Washington in 1795.

Author: Depew, Chauncey M.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Greenwood,

Date of Publication: 1968.

Physical Description: 2 v. illus. (part col.) 30 cm.

Notes: Paged continuously.

Subjects: Commerce; Inventions - United States; United States - Economic conditions - To 1865.; United States - Economic conditions - 1865-1918.; United States - Commerce - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 380 D419

The Lancaster Federalists and the War of 1812

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Author: Madonna, G. Terry.

Date of Publication: 1967

Macon's Bill No. 2 which freed American shipping from all restrictions, while forbidding the armed ships of Britain and France from entering American waters. In addition, if one of the belligerents revoked its commercial restrictions against the United States and the other failed to do likewise in three

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Responsibility: by G. Terry Madonna.

Author: Madonna, G. Terry.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1967

Physical Description: [137]-164 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 71, no. 3

Subjects: Federal Party (U.S.); Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government.; United States - History - War of 1812.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 71, number 3 (1967), p. 137-164Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.71

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Keystone state in crisis : the Civil War in Pennsylvania

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Author: Giesberg, Judith Ann,

Date of Publication: 2013.

Call Number: 974.8033 G455

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Alternate Title: Civil War in Pennsylvania

Responsibility: Judith Giesberg.

ISBN: 193230441X; 9781932304411

Author: Giesberg, Judith Ann,

Place of Publication: Mansfield, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical Association,

Date of Publication: 2013.

Physical Description: 96 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Series: Pennsylvania history studies series

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Something in that Declaration -- The Republican revolution: Pennsylvania picks Lincoln -- Mobilizing for war -- We will die in defense of our right to liberty: the Civil War on Pennsylvania's border -- Combating the threat without and within -- Pennsylvania and the second American Revolution -- A day long to be remembered.

Summary: This book takes you to and beyond the battlefield at Gettysburg, to cities and towns throughout the state where Pennsylvanians fought over the meaning of the Union even as they fought for it. By the time the Civil War began in 1861, white and black Pennsylvanians along the state's southern border-in towns like Sadsbury, Coatesville, and Christiana-had been fighting with slave owners and catchers for a decade. And, more than a year after Lee's Army of Northern Virginia left southcentral Pennsylvania, the town of Chambersburg survived another, even more devastating Confederate invasion. For much longer than four years, Pennsylvanians waged war at home and abroad, to save the Union and to rethink its founding principles. Keystone State in Crisis tells that story. [from the publisher]

Subjects: Politics and government; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1861-1865.; Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Political aspects.; Pennsylvania.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical Association.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8033 G455

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Colonial craftsmen and the beginnings of American industry

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Author: Tunis, Edwin,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Date of Publication: [1965]

Call Number: 609.73 T926 Oversize

Responsibility: written and illustrated by Edwin Tunis.

Author: Tunis, Edwin,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Place of Publication: Cleveland

Publisher: World Pub. Co.

Date of Publication: [1965]

Physical Description: 159 p. illus. 31 cm.

Summary: Describes and illustrates the work of craftsmen and artisans in Colonial America. Shows types of work done in town shops and manufacturies, as well as, in homes, village shops, and country forges.

Subjects: Technology - United States; Industries - United States; Decorative arts, Early American.; United States - Social life and customs - To 1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 609.73 T926 Oversize

James Buchanan and the coming of the Civil War

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Date of Publication: c2013.

Call Number: 973.68 B918

Responsibility: edited by John W. Quist and Michael J. Birkner.

ISBN: 9780813044262 (alk. paper); 081304426X (alk. paper)

Place of Publication: Gainesville

Publisher: University Press of Florida,

Date of Publication: c2013.

Physical Description: x, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Notes: Papers from a conference held at LancasterHistory.org in 2008. Presentation copy from the editors.; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction: Bum rap or bad leadership? -- James Buchanan, Dred Scott, and the whisper of conspiracy / Paul Finkelman -- Prelude to armageddon: James Buchanan, Brigham Young, and a president's initiation to bloodshed / William P. MacKinnon -- General Jackson is dead: James Buchanan, Stephen A. Douglas, and Kansas policy / Nicole Etcheson -- In defense of doughface diplomacy: a reevaluation of the foreign policy of James Buchanan / John M. Belohlavek -- President James Buchanan: executive leadership and the crisis of the democracy / Michael A. Morrison -- The South has been wronged: James Buchanan and the secession crisis / Jean H. Baker -- "In the midst of a great revolution": the northern response to the secession crisis / William G. Shade -- Joseph Holt, James Buchanan, and the secession crisis / Daniel W. Crofts -- A conversation with William W. Freehling and Michael F. Holt, September 19, 2008 / Moderated by John W. Quist -- Epilogue: James Buchanan's Civil War / Michael J. Birkner.

Summary: An edited volume examining the presidency of James Buchanan and his role engaging the complexities of the debate surrounding the president immediately before Lincoln.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.

Additional Author: Quist, John W.; Birkner, Michael J.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.68 B918

The leaven of democracy; the growth of the democratic spirit in the time of Jackson

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Author: Eaton, Clement,

Date of Publication: 1963.

Call Number: 917.3 C626

Responsibility: Selected and edited, with introd. and notes by Clement Eaton.

Author: Eaton, Clement,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: G. Braziller,

Date of Publication: 1963.

Physical Description: xvi, 490 p. 25 cm.

Series: [The American epochs series]

Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 18-20)

Subjects: National characteristics, American.; United States - Civilization - 1783-1865.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.3 C626

The Old land and the new: the journals of two Swiss families in America in the 1820's

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Date of Publication: 1965

Call Number: 917.3 B598

Responsibility: edited and translated by Robert H. Billigmeier & Fred Altschuler Picard. Sketches by Hans Erni.

Place of Publication: Minneapolis

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Date of Publication: 1965

Physical Description: 281 p. illus. 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents: Note on translation.--Introduction, by R.H. Billigmeier.--Account of a journey to North America and through the most significant parts thereof, by J. Schweizer.--Day book on a journey to North America in the year 1823, by J.J. Rutlinger.

Summary: "In the 1820's, when the flow of immigration was still small, two Swiss immigrant families wrote accounts of what seemed to them to be the most decisive experiences of their lives. These particular accounts relate to a period in the history of American immigration that is less well known than the more spectacular colonial and post- Civil War movements. They are particularly vivid and insightful personal documents affording valuable perspectives of the integration of the 'Old Immigration' of ante-bellum days." [from the introduction]

Subjects: Swiss in the United States.; United States - Description and travel - 1783-1848.; United States - Emigration and immigration - Personal narratives.

Additional Author: Schweizer, Johannes,; Rutlinger, Johann Jakob,; Billigmeier, Robert Henry,; Picard, Fred Altschuler,; Erni, Hans,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.3 B598

Letters from an American farmer ; and Sketches of eighteenth-century America : more letters from an American farmer

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Author: St. John de CrÃ¨vecoeur, J. Hector,

Date of Publication: c1963.

Call Number: 818.103 C926

Responsibility: by Hector St. John de CrÃ¨vecoeur ; with a foreword by Albert E. Stone, Jr.

Author: St. John de CrÃ¨vecoeur, J. Hector,

Uniform Title: Letters from an American farmer

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: New American Library,

Date of Publication: c1963.

Physical Description: 477, [3] p. ; 18 cm.

Series: A Signet classic ; CQ136

Notes: Includes index.; "Landscapes", dramatic sketches: p. 398-463.

Subjects: St. John de CrÃ¨vecoeur, J. Hector, - 1735-1813.; Farm life - United States.; United States - Social life and customs - 1775-1783.; United States - Description and travel - To 1783.; Nantucket (Mass.) - Social life and customs.

Additional Author: Stone, Albert E.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 818.103 C926

Unquiet eagle; memory and desire in the idea of American freedom, 1815-1860

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Author: Somkin, Fred.

Date of Publication: [1967]

Call Number: 917.35 S693

Author: Somkin, Fred.

Place of Publication: Ithaca, N.Y

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Date of Publication: [1967]

Physical Description: xi, 233 p. facsim. 23 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 211-228.

Subjects: United States - Civilization - 1783-1865.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.35 S693

The life of the mind in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War

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Author: Miller, Perry,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Date of Publication: [1965]

Call Number: 917.303 M649

Author: Miller, Perry,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World

Date of Publication: [1965]

Physical Description: xi, 338 p. 24 cm.

Notes: Contains books 1-2, and part of book 3, of a work intended to be complete in 9 books. The parts after book 3, chapter 1, were never completed.

Subjects: United States - Intellectual life.; United States - Civilization - 1783-1865.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.303 M649

Generals in blue; lives of the Union commanders

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Author: Warner, Ezra J.

Date of Publication: [1964]

Call Number: 973.741 W281

Responsibility: by Ezra J. Warner.

Author: Warner, Ezra J.

Place of Publication: [Baton Rouge]

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press

Date of Publication: [1964]

Physical Description: xxiv, 679, [1] p. ports. 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 673-[680]

Subjects: Generals - United States.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Biography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.741 W281

Spies in the Continental capital: Espionage across Pennsylvania during the American Revolution

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Author: Nagy, John A.

Date of Publication: 2011.

Call Number: 973.385 N152

Alternate Title: Spies in the Continental Congress

Responsibility: by John A. Nagy.

ISBN: 9781594161339; 159416133X

Author: Nagy, John A.

Place of Publication: Yardley, Pa

Publisher: Westholme,

Date of Publication: 2011.

Physical Description: xiii, 273 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and indexes.

Contents: A peace treaty is signed, the war begins -- British intrigues in Congress -- The British capture of Philadelphia -- Occupied Philadelphia : the British move in -- The Major John Clark Jr. spy ring -- Occupied Philadelphia : the British move out -- Chasing a fox -- Commuter spies : New York and Philadelphia -- Spies along the Susquehanna River : Lancaster, Muncy, and York -- The traitor and the merchant -- Pittsburgh : Pennsylvania's frontier -- European adventures -- More British intrigues in Congress.

Summary: Philadelphia played a key role in the history of spying during the American Revolution because it was the main location for the Continental Congress, was occupied by the British Command, and then returned to Continental control. Philadelphia became a center of spies for the British and Americansas well as double agents. George Washington was a firm believer in reliable military intelligence; after evacuating New York City, he neglected to have a spy network in place: when the British took over Philadelphia, he did not make the same mistake, and Washington was able to keep abreast of British troop strengths and intentions. Likewise, the British used the large Loyalist community around Philadelphia to assess the abilities of their Continental foes, as well as the resolve of Congress. In addition to describing techniques used by spies and specific events, such as the Major Andre episode, Nagy has scoured rare primary source documents to provide new and compelling information about some of the most notable agents of the war, such as Lydia Darragh, a celebrated American spy.An important contribution to Revolutionary War history, Spies in the Continental Capital: Espionage Across Pennsylvania During the American Revolution demonstrates that intelligence operations on both sides emanating from Pennsylvania were vast, well-designed, and critical to understanding the course and outcome of the war.

Subjects: Spies - United States; Spies - Great Britain; Spies - France; Espionage - United States; Espionage - Great Britain; Espionage - France; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.385 N152

Bosom friends : the intimate world of James Buchanan and William Rufus King

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Author: Balcerski, Thomas J.

Date of Publication: 2019.

Call Number: 973.68 B174

Responsibility: Thomas J. Balcerski.

ISBN: 9780190914592 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Author: Balcerski, Thomas J.

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 2019.

Physical Description: x, 337 pages : Illustrations, maps : 25 cm.

Contents: Introduction: Remembering -- Leavening, 1786-1819 -- Hardening, 1820-1834 -- Messing, 1834-1840 -- Wooing, 1840-1844 -- Ministering, 1844-1848 -- Running, 1848-1853 -- Presiding, 1853-1868 -- Epilogue: Preserving -- Washington residences of James Buchanan and William Rufus King (1834-1853) -- Percentage correlation of roll call votes of James Buchanan with senators of the Bachelor's Mess, 23rd to 28th Congresses (1834-1844) -- Calendar of correspondence of James Buchanan / Harriet Lane Johnston and William Rufus King / Catherine Margaret Ellis (1837-1868.

Summary: "Politicians James Buchanan (1791-1868) of Pennsylvania and William Rufus King (1786-1853) of Alabama has excited much speculation through the years. Why did they never marry? Might they have been gay, or was their relationship a nineteenth-century version of the modern-day 'bromance'? Then, as now, they have intrigued by the many mysteries surrounding them. In Bosom Friends : the Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, Thomas Balcerski explores the lives of these two politicians and discovers one of the most significant collaborations in American political history. Unlikely companions from the start, they lived together as messmates in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse. There developed a bosom friendship that blossomed into a significant political partnership. Before the Civil War, each man was elected to high executive office, William Rufus King the vice-presidency in 1852 and James Buchanan as the nation's fifteen president in 1856. This book offers a dual biography of James Buchanan and William Rufus King. Special attention is given to their early lives prior to elected office, the circumstances of their boardinghouse friendship, and the juicy political gossip that has circulated about them ever since. In addition, the author traces their many contributions to the Jacksonian political agenda, manifest destiny, and the debates over slavery, while finding their style of politics to have been disastrous for the American nation. Ultimately, Bosom Friends demonstrates that intimate male friendships among politicians were, and continue to be, an important part of success in American politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Subjects: King, William R. (William Rufus), - 1786-1853.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Male friendship - United States; Presidents - United States; Legislators - United States; United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.68 B174

Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776

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Author: Bailyn, Bernard,

Date of Publication: 1965-

Call Number: 973.3 B161

Responsibility: edited by Bernard Bailyn, with the assistance of Jane N. Garrett.

Author: Bailyn, Bernard,

Place of Publication: Cambridge

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication: 1965-

Physical Description: v. facsims. 25 cm.

Series: The John Harvard library

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: v. 1. 1750-1765.

Subjects: United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Pamphlets.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.3 B161

Travels in North America in the years 1780, 1781, and 1782

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Author: Chastellux, FrancÊ¹ois Jean,

Date of Publication: c1963.

Call Number: 917.3 C489

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Responsibility: by the Marquis de Chastellux ; a revised translation, with introduction and notes, by Howard C. Rice, Jr.

Author: Chastellux, FrancÊ¹ois Jean,

Uniform Title: Voyages dans l'Amerique septentrionale.

Place of Publication: Chapel HIll, N.C

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,

Date of Publication: c1963.

Physical Description: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; maps ; 23 cm.

Notes: "Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia."; Includes index.

Summary: "The definitive edition of an American classic of great literary and historical value. Chastellux, one of three major generals who accompanied Rochambeau and the French Expeditionary Forces to America, was a man of letters and a member of the French Academy. His absorbing journal is a deeply and clearly etched portrait of a country and its people. This is the second of two volumes." [Worldcat.org]; "Francois Jean De Beauvoir, Marquis De Chastellux was born in Paris, France in 1734. He joined the French Army as a Second Lieutenant at the age of 13 and rose through the ranks during the Seven Years' War. Chastellux came to be as famous for his literary work, with his publication of a book on philosophy in 1772, as he was for his military exploits. When the French expeditionary forces assigned to the Revolutionary Continental Army set sail for America in 1779, he was one of the three major generals sent with General Rochambeau. They arrived in America and took part in the victorious Yorktown campaign. Invaluable to the Continental Army commanders for his command of the English language, Chastellux remained in America until returning to France in early 1783. Travels in North America is an account of Chastellux's travels between campaigns." [from the Preface]

Subjects: Manners and customs.; United States - Description and travel - Early works to 1800.; United States - Social life and customs - 1775-1783.

Additional Author: Rice, Howard C.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.3 C489

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Furniture treasury : (mostly of American origin). All periods of American furniture with some foreign examples in America, also American hardware and household utensils. 5000 illustrations with descriptions on the same page

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Author: Nutting, Wallace,

Date of Publication: 1961 [c1928]

Call Number: 749.2 N988

Responsibility: by Wallace Nutting.

Author: Nutting, Wallace,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Macmillan Co.,

Date of Publication: 1961 [c1928]

Physical Description: 2 v. in 1 : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.

Notes: "Unabridged."

Subjects: Furniture - United States.; Hardware - United States.; Implements, utensils, etc.; Clocks and watches.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 749.2 N988

The American heritage history of antiques from the Civil War to World War I

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Author: Davidson, Marshall B.

Date of Publication: [1969]

Call Number: 745.1 D253h

Responsibility: by the editors of American heritage. Author and editor in charge: Marshall B. Davidson.

Author: Davidson, Marshall B.

Place of Publication: [New York]

Publisher: American Heritage Pub. Co.

Date of Publication: [1969]

Physical Description: 415 p. illus. (part col.), facsims., ports. (part col.) 29 cm.

Subjects: Antiques - United States; United States - Social life and customs - 1865-1918.

Additional Title: American heritage.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 745.1 D253h

The triumph of militant Republicanism; a study of Pennsylvania and presidential politics, 1860-1872

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Author: Bradley, Erwin Stanley,

Date of Publication: 1964

Call Number: 974.804 B811

Author: Bradley, Erwin Stanley,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Date of Publication: 1964

Physical Description: 467 p. ports. 22 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 435-450.

Contents: Chapters: The Political Antecedents - The Republican Triumph of 1860 - The Crisis - Curtin Rides the Tide - Triumph of the Cameron Machine - The First Fruits of Victory - The Emergence of John White Geary - The Cameronian Path of Empire - The Witches' Brew of the Geary Regime - Voices of Protest - The Triumph of Reaction.

Summary: Scholarly account of how the Democrats lost Pennsylvania because of their stance in the Civil War, and how the corrupt Simon Cameron, rather than reformers like Andrew Curtin and Thaddeus Stevens, took their place.

Subjects: Republican Party. - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1861-1865.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1865-1950.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.804 B811

Freedom by the sword : the U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867

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Author: Dobak, William A.,

Date of Publication: 2011.

Call Number: 973.7415 D632

Responsibility: by William A. Dobak.

ISBN: 9780160866951; 0160866952; 9780160866968; 0160866960

Author: Dobak, William A.,

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: U.S. Army Center of Military History,

Date of Publication: 2011.

Physical Description: xvi, 553 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 26 cm.

Series: Army historical series; CMH pub ; 30-24-1

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 508-532) and index.

Contents: Mustering in : Federal policy on emancipation and recruitment -- The South Atlantic Coast, 1861-1863 -- The South Atlantic Coast, 1863-1865 -- Southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, 1862-1863 -- Southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, 1863-1865 -- The Mississippi River and its tributaries, 1861-1863 -- Along the Mississippi River, 1863-1865 -- Arkansas, Indian Territory, and Kansas, 1863-1865 -- Middle Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, 1863-1865 -- North Carolina and Virginia, 1861-1864 -- Virginia, May-October 1864 -- Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia, 1864-1865 -- South Texas, 1864-1867 -- Reconstruction, 1865-1867 -- Conclusion.

Subjects: United States. - Army - African American troops - History; African American soldiers; Free African Americans; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Participation, African American.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7415 D632

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1795-1895. One hundred years of American commerce ... a history of American commerce by one hundred Americans, with a chronological table of the important events of American commerce and invention within the past one hundred yeras

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Keystone state in crisis : the Civil War in Pennsylvania

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Colonial craftsmen and the beginnings of American industry

James Buchanan and the coming of the Civil War

The leaven of democracy; the growth of the democratic spirit in the time of Jackson

The Old land and the new: the journals of two Swiss families in America in the 1820's

Letters from an American farmer ; and Sketches of eighteenth-century America : more letters from an American farmer

Unquiet eagle; memory and desire in the idea of American freedom, 1815-1860

The life of the mind in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War

Generals in blue; lives of the Union commanders

Spies in the Continental capital: Espionage across Pennsylvania during the American Revolution

Bosom friends : the intimate world of James Buchanan and William Rufus King

Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776

Travels in North America in the years 1780, 1781, and 1782

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Furniture treasury : (mostly of American origin). All periods of American furniture with some foreign examples in America, also American hardware and household utensils. 5000 illustrations with descriptions on the same page

The American heritage history of antiques from the Civil War to World War I

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