Search Results - Research Collections

The Reading militia in the great war / by J. Bennett Nolan ... published under the auspices of the Historical society of Berks county

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4730

Author: Nolan, J. Bennett

Date of Publication: [1921]

Call Number: 974.816 R287n

Author: Nolan, J. Bennett

Place of Publication: Reading, Pa

Publisher: Printed by F. A. Woerner

Date of Publication: [1921]

Physical Description: 206 p. ; 19 cm.

Contents: The career of Company I, later known at Company D, 150th machine gun battalion, Forty-second division, American expeditionary force.--The career of Company A, later known as Company B, 106th machine gun battalion, Twenty-eighth division, American expeditionary force.

Subjects: United States. - Army. - Machine Gun Battalion, 10th.; United States. - Army. - Machine Gun Battalion, 135th.; World War, 1914-1918 - Pennsylvania - Reading.; World War, 1914-1918 - United States

Additional Corporate Author: Historical Society of Berks County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 R287n

The history of Grace Church (Millersville, Pa.) 1812-2012 : Remember the past, live the present, dream the future

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16745

Date of Publication: 2012.

Call Number: 287 G729m

Place of Publication: [Millersville, Pa. ]

Date of Publication: 2012.

Physical Description: Unpaged leaves ; Ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: 200th Anniversary Committee: Ruth and Craig Banner, Peggy Manning, Jeanette Mateer, Lois and Jack Raymond, and Barbara Douglas, Chairperson.; Rineer's "Churches and cemeteries of Lancaster County, Pa.", pg. 314, # 6.

Subjects: Grace United Methodist Church (Millersville, Pa.)

Additional Author: Banner, Ruth.; Banner, Craig.; Manning, Peggy.; Mateer, Jeannette.; Raymond, Lois.; Raymond, Jack.; Douglas, Barbara.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 287 G729m

Prigg v. Pennsylvania : slavery, the Supreme Court, and the ambivalent constitution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19445

Author: Baker, H. Robert.

Date of Publication: Â©2012.

Call Number: 342.73 B167

Responsibility: H. Robert Baker.

ISBN: 9780700618644 (cloth : alk. paper); 0700618643 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780700618651 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0700618651 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Author: Baker, H. Robert.

Place of Publication: [Lawrence]

Publisher: University Press of Kansas,

Date of Publication: Â©2012.

Physical Description: xii, 202 pages ; 23 cm.

Series: Landmark law cases & American society

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.

Contents: A short history of fugitives in America and an African named James Somerset -- The original meaning of the fugitive slave clause -- The Fugitive Slave Act, kidnapping, and the powers of dual sovereigns -- The rights of slaveholders and those of free Blacks in Pennsylvania's Personal Liberty Law of 1826 -- Black sailors, kidnapped freemen, and a crisis in northern fugitive slave jurisprudence -- Arresting Margaret -- Arresting Edward Prigg -- Before the court -- Deciding Prigg -- After the court.

Summary: Margaret Morgan was born in freedom's shadow. Her parents were slaves of John Ashmore, a prosperous Maryland mill owner who freed many of his slaves in the last years of his life. Ashmore never laid claim to Margaret, who eventually married a free black man and moved to Pennsylvania. Then, John Ashmore's widow sent Edward Prigg to Pennsylvania to claim Margaret as a runaway. Prigg seized Margaret and her children, one of them born in Pennsylvania and forcibly removed them to Maryland in violation of Pennsylvania law. In the ensuing uproar, Prigg was indicted for kidnapping under Pennsylvania's personal liberty law. Maryland, however, blocked his extradition, setting the stage for a remarkable Supreme Court case in 1842.

Subjects: Prigg, Edward - Trials, litigation, etc.; Prigg, Edward.; Pennsylvania - Trials, litigation, etc.; United States. - Supreme Court.; Fugitive slaves - United States.; Fugitive slaves; Trials.; Pennsylvania.; United States.; Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 539 (1842)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 342.73 B167

Making of African America: The four great migrations

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21093

Author: Berlin, Ira,

Date of Publication: 2010.

Call Number: 326 B515

Alternate Title: The making of African America.

Responsibility: by Ira Berlin.

ISBN: 9780670021376; 0670021377

Author: Berlin, Ira,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Viking,

Date of Publication: 2010.

Physical Description: 304 pages ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Movement and place in the African American past -- The transatlantic passage -- The passage to the interior -- The passage to the north -- Global passages.

Summary: Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and, since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Americas, and Europe. These epic migrations have made and remade African American life. This new account evokes both the terrible price and the moving triumphs of a people forcibly and then willingly migrating to America. Historian Ira Berlin finds a dynamic of change in which eras of deep rootedness alternate with eras of massive movement, tradition giving way to innovation. The culture of black America is constantly evolving, affected by (and affecting) places as far away from one another as Biloxi, Chicago, Kingston, and Lagos.--From publisher description.

Subjects: African Americans; Slave trade - United States; Slave trade - Atlantic Ocean; Migration, Internal - United States; Emigration and immigration.; Social science; Africa - Emigration and immigration.; United States - Slavery and bondage - History.; United States - Minorities - History.; United States - Emigration and immigration - History.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 B515

The Twenty-eighth division, Pennsylvania's guard in the world war; forewards by the commanding generals. The history of the Keystone or Iron division in the world war. Also the history and traditions of the Pennsylvania national guard and its predecessor the Pennsylvania militia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17656

Author: Martin, Edward,

Date of Publication: [c1923-24]

Call Number: 940.412 M379 Oversize

Responsibility: Compiled from official and private records, by Colonel Edward Martin, assisted by officers and men of the various units; E.S. Wallace ... editor ...

Author: Martin, Edward,

Place of Publication: Pittsburgh, Pa

Publisher: 28th division Pub. Co.

Date of Publication: [c1923-24]

Physical Description: 5 v. fronts., illus. (incl. ports., maps) 2 col. pl. 35 cm.

Subjects: United States. - Army. - Infantry Division, 28th.; World War, 1914-1918 - United States.

Additional Author: Wallace, Edwin Sherman,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 940.412 M379 Oversize

The meeting of the Continental Congress in Lancaster

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3370

Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener,

Date of Publication: 1927

. September 27 is therefore the Sesqui Centennial of the day when Lancaster was the National Capital, an honor which but three other cities in the United States are privileged to have. Threatened by the British Army, which had thrown Washington's Army into retreat at Chadds Ford on the Brandywine on September

1 document

Responsibility: by Herbert H. Beck.

Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1927

Physical Description: 101-103 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7

Subjects: United States. - Continental Congress.; Constitutional history - United States.; United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 18th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 31, number 7 (1927), p. 101-103Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.31

Documents

vol31no7pp101_103.pdf

Read PDF Download PDF

Bound for the future : child heroes of the Underground Railroad

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17708

Author: Shectman, Jonathan,

Date of Publication: c2012.

Call Number: 973.7115 S539

Responsibility: Jonathan Shectman.

ISBN: 9780313397271 (hardcopy : alk. paper); 0313397279 (hardcopy : alk. paper); 9780313397288 (ebook); 0313397287 (ebook)

Author: Shectman, Jonathan,

Place of Publication: Santa Barbara, Calif

Publisher: Praeger,

Date of Publication: c2012.

Physical Description: xiii, 215 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: ''Child Heroes of the Underground Railroad illuminates the vital contributions of specific, underappreciated child activists within the extremely local circumstances of their daily work. It also provides meaningful context to the actions of these young activists within the much broader social practice of resisting slavery, and offers fresh insight into the complicated question of who was responsible for ending slavery. Through a thorough examination of these subjects, author Jonathan Shectman proves his central thesis: in many specific cases, children were the essential lifeblood of the Underground Railroad's operational workforce." ( amazon.com ); Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-208) and index.

Contents: The dictates of humanity -- Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave -- Ran away from the subscriber -- Tell them I love them all -- Let not the sun go down on your anger, my boy -- Up like bucks: the Rankin boys -- States of matter divide the states -- Deeds of bold daring -- Many years under the yoke -- The conductor was, himself, presently enslaved.; Part I. Radical, young, and quaker: child pioneers of the underground -- Part II. Up like bucks: the line through Ripley -- Part III. Taking their freedom: young free blacks and fugitive children.

Subjects: Underground Railroad.; Fugitive slaves - United States; Antislavery movements - United States; Abolitionists - United States - Biography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7115 S539

Lists of Swiss emigrants in the eighteenth century to the American colonies

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7286

Author: Faust, Albert Bernhardt,

Date of Publication: 1920-1925.

Call Number: 929.3 F267

Responsibility: by Albert Bernhardt Faust.

Author: Faust, Albert Bernhardt,

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: National Genealogical Society,

Date of Publication: 1920-1925.

Physical Description: 2 v. facsims. 27 cm.

Notes: LCHS has vol. 1 only.; Vol. 2 compiled and edited by Albert Bernhardt Faust ... and Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh.

Subjects: Immigrants - United States - Registers.; Swiss - United States.; Switzerland - Emigration and immigration.; United States - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 F267

Some gave all the stories of Elizabethtown's fallen heroes and the history of Memorial Day in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20446

Author: Clark, Phillip P.

Date of Publication: 2016.

Call Number: 974.815 ELIB C592

Responsibility: Phillip P. Clark

ISBN: 9780692700358; 0692700358

Author: Clark, Phillip P.

Place of Publication: Pennsylvania

Date of Publication: 2016.

Physical Description: 79 p. : ill. : 23 cm.

Notes: First edition.

Subjects: Memorial day. - Elizabethtown, Pa.; United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 ELIB C592

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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22229

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

Revise Search

Data Source

Collection

Subject

Name

Place

Decade

Material

Archival Hierarchy

Online Media