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The 1920 federal population census : a catalog of National Archives microfilm

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Date of Publication: 1991.

Call Number: 016.3046 F293 1920

ISBN: 091133386X

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration,

Date of Publication: 1991.

Physical Description: 77 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subjects: National Archives Trust Fund Board - Microform catalogs.; Microforms; United States - Population - Statistics - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.; United States - Census, 14th, 1920 - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.

Additional Corporate Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.3046 F293 1920

200 years of U.S. census taking : population and housing questions, 1790-1990

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Author: Bohme, Frederick G.

Date of Publication: 1997.

Call Number: 317.321 U84 1989

Alternate Title: Two hundred years of U.S. census taking; Two hundred years of United States federal census taking

Author: Bohme, Frederick G.

Place of Publication: Bountiful, Utah

Publisher: Heritage Quest,

Date of Publication: 1997.

Physical Description: iv, 109 p. : ill., forms ; 28 cm.

Notes: On p. 2 of cover of the original: "This report was prepared in the Data User Services Division by Frederick G. Bohme ..."; Facsimile reprint. Original imprint: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : For sale by Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1989.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-108).

Subjects: United States - Census - Methodology.; United States - Census - History.

Additional Corporate Author: United States. Bureau of the Census.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 317.321 U84 1989

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

No balm in Gilead : Lancaster's African-American population and the Civil War Era

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Author: Hopkins, Leroy.

Date of Publication: 1993.

, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whomsoever; and that I will observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed

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Responsibility: by Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. Ph.D.

Author: Hopkins, Leroy.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1993.

Physical Description: [20]-40 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.95, no.1

Subjects: Confederate States of America. - Army - History.; United States. - Army - History; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Lancaster (Pa.) - Race relations.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 95, number 1 (1993), p. 20-40Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.95

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A directory of the eleventh census of the population of Schuylkill County : giving the names and ages of males and females, published by cities, boroughs, wards, townships, precincts or towns, in connection with a business directory of the same for advertising purposes ... together with a brief historical resume of each district, statistics, etc

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Date of Publication: Â©1999.

Call Number: 974.817 D598

Alternate Title: Eleventh census of the population of Schuylkill County

Place of Publication: Mt. Vernon, Ind

Publisher: Windmill Publications,

Date of Publication: Â©1999.

Physical Description: 1060 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes: Facsimile reproduction of the ed. from: Lebanon, Pa. : E.E. Schartel, 1891.; "The reproduction of this publication has been made possible through the sponsorship of the Schuylkill County Historical Society"--Title page verso.

Subjects: Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County.; Registers of births, etc.; Schuylkill County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Schuylkill County (Pa.) - Census, 1890.; United States - Census, 11th, 1890.; Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County.; United States.; Census data.; Genealogy.

Additional Corporate Author: Schuylkill County Historical Society (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.817 D598

Contact points : American frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18679

Date of Publication: c1998.

Call Number: 973.221 C759

Responsibility: edited by Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute.

ISBN: 0807847348 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Place of Publication: Chapel Hill

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,

Date of Publication: c1998.

Physical Description: x, 390 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, the Newberry Library, Chicago, and the Historic New Orleans Collection."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-382) and index.

Contents: Introduction : on the connection of frontiers / Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute -- Shamokin, "the very seat of the Prince of darkness": unsettling the early American frontier / James H. Merrell -- Metaphor, meaning, and misunderstanding : language and power on the Pennsylvania frontier / Jane T. Merritt -- Black "go-betweens" and the mutability of "race," status, and identity on New York's pre-revolutionary frontier / William B. Hart -- "Insidious friends" : gift giving and the Cherokee-British alliance in the Seven Years' War / Gregory Evans Dowd --"Domestick ... quiet being broke" : gender conflict among Creek Indians in the eighteenth century / Claudio Saunt -- Pigs and hunters : "rights in the woods" on the trans-Appalachian frontier / Stephen Aron -- Distinctions and partitions amongst us : identity and interaction in the revolutionary Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins -- "Noble actors" upon "the theatre of honour" : power and civility in the Treaty of Greenville / Andrew R.L. Cayton -- To live among us : accommodation, gender, and conflict in the Western Great Lakes region, 1760-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy -- "More motley than Mackinaw" : from ethnic mixing to ethnic cleansing on the frontier of the Lower Missouri, 1783-1833 / John Mack Faragher -- Remembering American frontiers : King Philip's War and the American imagination / Jill Lepore.

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life - United States.; Acculturation - United States; Indians of North America; Indians, Treatment of - United States; Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Congresses.; Acculturation - United States - Congresses.; Indians of North America - Congresses.; United States - Territorial expansion.; United States - Territorial expansion - Congresses.

Additional Author: Cayton, Andrew R. L.; Teute, Fredrika J.

Additional Corporate Author: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.221 C759

Corporal Fox's memoir of service, 1766-1783 : Quebec, Saratoga, and the Convention Army

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Author: Houlding, J. A.

Date of Publication: 1990?]

Call Number: 973.33 H838

Responsibility: by J.A. Houlding and G. Kenneth Yates.

Author: Houlding, J. A.

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1990?]

Physical Description: 37 p. : map ; 28 cm.

Notes: Reprint. Originally published in the Journal for the Society for Army Historical Research, volume LXVIII, no. 275 (Autumn 1990).

Subjects: Fox, George, - ca. 1745-1809.; Great Britain. - Army. - Royal Fusiliers - Biography.; Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776; Saratoga Campaign, 1777; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Personal narratives, British.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons, American.

Additional Author: Fox, George,; Yates, G. Kenneth.

Additional Title: Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.33 H838

Emancipating slaves, enslaving free men : a history of the American Civil War

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Author: Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers.

Date of Publication: c1996.

Call Number: 973.7 H925

Responsibility: Jeffrey Rogers Hummel.

ISBN: 0812693116 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780812693119 (cloth : alk. paper); 0812693124 (paper : alk. paper); 9780812693126 (paper : alk. paper)

Author: Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers.

Place of Publication: Chicago

Publisher: Open Court,

Date of Publication: c1996.

Physical Description: xiii, 421 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Prologue: America's Crisis -- 1. Slavery and States' Rights in the Early Republic -- 2. The Political Economy of Slavery and Secession -- 3. The Slave Power Seeks Foreign Conquest -- 4. Emergence of the Republican Party -- 5. The Confederate States of America -- 6. Mobilizing for Conflict -- 7. The Military Struggle -- 8. The War to Abolish Slavery? -- 9. Republican Neo-Mercantilism Versus Confederate War Socialism -- 10. Dissent and Disaffection - North and South -- 11. The Ravages of Total War -- 12. The Politics of Reconstruction -- 13. American Society Transformed -- Epilogue: America's Turning Point.

Summary: This book combines a sweeping narrative history of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America's turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. A unique feature of the book is the bibliographical essays which follow every chapter. Here the author surveys the literature and points out where his own interpretation fits into the continuing clash of viewpoints which informs historical debate on the Civil War.

Subjects: States' rights (American politics); Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Slavernij.; Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.; Reconstruction (1865-1877); United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Causes.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Influence.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7 H925

Roll of honor : names of soldiers who died in defense of the American Union, interred in the national cemeteries

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Date of Publication: 1994-

Call Number: 973.76 R749

Responsibility: U.S. Quartermaster's Department.

ISBN: 0806314125 (no. 16); 0806314133 (no. 7-10); 0806314141 (no. 11-13); 0806314176 (no. 14-15); 0806314184 (no. 16-17); 0806314192 (no. 18-19); 0806314206 (no. 20-21); 0806314214 (no. 22-23); 0806314222 (no. 24-25); 0806314494 (no. 26-28); 0806314117 (set)

Place of Publication: Baltimore, Md

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1994-

Physical Description: v. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Vol. 1 includes: Alphabetical index to places of interment of deceased Union soldiers in the various states and territories, as specified in Rolls of honor nos. I-XIII.; Nos. 26-27: "Reprinted with statement of the disposition of some of the bodies of deceased Union soldiers and prisoners of war whose remains have been removed to national cemeteries in the Southern and Western states."

Contents: Nos. I-VI -- nos. VII-X -- nos. XI-XII --

Subjects: Soldiers - United States; Registers of births, etc. - United States.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Registers of dead.

Additional Corporate Author: United States. Quartermaster's Dept.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.76 R749

The Great Wagon Road : from Philadelphia to the South- How Scotch-Irish and Germanics settled the Uplands

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Author: Rouse, Parke,

Date of Publication: 1995.

Call Number: 973.2 R873

Responsibility: by Parke Rouse, Jr.

Author: Rouse, Parke,

Place of Publication: [Richmond, Va.]

Publisher: Dietz Press,

Date of Publication: 1995.

Physical Description: x, 292 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Notes: Originally published, New York : McGraw-Hill, 1973.; Reprinted 2001.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-276) and index.; "The heavily traveled Great Wagon Road was the primary route for the early settlement of the Southern United States, particularly the "backcountry". Although a wide variety of settlers traveled southward on the road, two dominant cultures emerged. The German Palatines and Scotch-Irish American immigrants arrived in huge numbers because of unendurable conditions in Europe... Beginning at the port of Philadelphia, where many immigrants entered the colonies, the Great Wagon Road passed through the towns of Lancaster and York in southeastern Pennsylvania. Turning southwest, the road crossed the Potomac River and entered the Shenandoah Valley near present-day Martinsburg, West Virginia. It continued south in the valley via the Great Warriors' Trail (also called the Indian Road), which was established by centuries of Indian travel over ancient trails created by migrating buffalo herds. The Shenandoah portion of the road is also known as the Valley Pike. The Treaty of Lancaster in 1744 had established colonists' rights to settle along the Indian Road. Although traffic on the road increased dramatically after 1744, it was reduced to a trickle during the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War) from 1756 to 1763. But after the war ended, it was said to be the most heavily traveled main road in America. South of the Shenandoah Valley, the road reached the Roanoke River at the town of Big Lick (today, Roanoke). South of Roanoke, the Great Wagon Road was also called the Carolina Road. At Roanoke, a road forked southwest, leading into the upper New River Valley and on to the Holston River in the upper Tennessee Valley. From there, the Wilderness Road led into Kentucky, ending at the Ohio River where flatboats were available for further travel into the Midwest and even to New Orleans. From Big Lick/Roanoke, after 1748, the Great Wagon Road passed through the Maggoty Gap (also called Maggodee) to the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Continuing south through the Piedmont region, it passed through the present-day North Carolina towns of Winston-Salem, Salisbury, and Charlotte and sites of earlier Indian settlements on the historic Indian Trading Path. The Great Wagon Road ultimately reached Augusta, Georgia, on the Savannah River, a distance of more than 800 miles (1,300 km) from Philadelphia." [wikipedia]

Contents: Chapters: pt. 1. The Appalachian warriors' path. The search for Eldorado -- War among the Iroquois -- pt. 2. The Philadelphia wagon road. Germans in Pennsylvania -- Enter the Scotch-Irish -- A Moravian journey to Carolina -- Along the way South -- Presbyterians in a new land -- Mapping the great mountains -- Bethabara and New Salem -- The threat from the French -- Life in the Appalachians -- pt. 3. The wilderness trail. The wagon road turns West -- The saga of Castle's Woods -- Apostle of the frontier -- pt. 4. A frontier in danger. Andrew Jackson of the Waxhaws -- The exodus of the Quakers -- "The Old Wagoner" against the king -- Conestoga's gift -- Hospitality, North and South -- The spirit of Luther -- In the cabins along the road -- Tuckahoe versus Cohee -- pt. 5. Division and reunion. Stagecoaches and turnpikes -- Great days of the horse -- The Cherokees go West -- The day Doctor Junkin drove North -- Hot heads and cold bodies -- A road is reunited.

Subjects: Great Wagon Road.; Migration, Internal.; Roads; Great Philadelphia Wagon Road.; Trails - Southern States.; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.2 R873

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