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The counter-revolution in Pennsylvania, 1776-1790

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Author: Brunhouse, Robert Levere,

Date of Publication: 1942.

Call Number: 974.8029 B895

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Responsibility: [by] Robert Levere Brunhouse.

Author: Brunhouse, Robert Levere,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Date of Publication: 1942.

Physical Description: viii, 368 p. incl. maps. 23 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 299-318.

Contents: The Background -- The Rise of the Radicals (1776-1778) -- Triumph of Radicalism (1778-1780) -- The Conservatives Emerge (1780-1782) -- Conservatives Ride to Power (1782-1784) -- Counter-Revolution Halter(1783-1786) -- Triumph of the Counter-Revolution (1786-1790).

Summary: From the Preface: "Only with the detailed story of the struggle between radical and conservative forces in each state can one gain a more complete understanding of the history of the Revolution and the Confederation."

Subjects: United States - Politics and government - Revolution, 1775-1783.; United States - Politics and government - 1783-1789.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8029 B895

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Nativism and slavery : the northern Know Nothings and the politics of the 1850's

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Author: Anbinder, Tyler.

Date of Publication: 1992.

Call Number: 320.973 S532

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Responsibility: Tyler Anbinder.

ISBN: 0195072332; 9780195072334

Author: Anbinder, Tyler.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 1992.

Physical Description: xv, 330 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-310) and index.

Summary: Although the United States has always portrayed itself as a sanctuary for the world's victim's of poverty and oppression, anti-immigrant movements have enjoyed remarkable success throughout American history. None attained greater prominence than the Order of the Star Spangled Banner, a fraternal order referred to most commonly as the Know Nothing party. Vowing to reduce the political influence of immigrants and Catholics, the Know Nothings burst onto the American political scene in 1854, and by the end of the following year they had elected eight governors, more than one hundred congressmen, and thousands of other local officials including the mayors of Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago. After their initial successes, the Know Nothings attempted to increase their appeal by converting their network of lodges into a conventional political organization, which they christened the "American Party." Recently, historians have pointed to the Know Nothings' success as evidence that ethnic and religious issues mattered more to nineteenth-century voters than better-known national issues such as slavery. In this important book, however, Anbinder argues that the Know Nothings' phenomenal success was inextricably linked to the firm stance their northern members took against the extension of slavery. Most Know Nothings, he asserts, saw slavery and Catholicism as interconnected evils that should be fought in tandem. Although the Know Nothings certainly were bigots, their party provided an early outlet for the anti-slavery sentiment that eventually led to the Civil War. Anbinder's study presents the first comprehensive history of America's most successful anti-immigrant movement, as well as a major reinterpretation of the political crisis that led to the Civil War.

Subjects: American Party.; American Party; Nativism.; Antislavery movements - United States.; Know-Nothings.; United States - Politics and government - 1853-1857.; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.; Politics - History, 1845-1861; United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 320.973 S532

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http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780195072334.pdf

Political divisions of Lancaster County

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Author: Steinmetz, H. L.

Date of Publication: 1901

%20Project/Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Steinmetz, H. L. Title: Political divisions of Lancaster County / by H. L. Steinmetz. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster County (Pa.)--Politics and government--1865-1950. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Politics and government--1775-1865. Lancaster County

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Responsibility: by H. L. Steinmetz.

Author: Steinmetz, H. L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1901

Physical Description: [36]-51 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 5, no. 2

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government - 1865-1950.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government - 1775-1865.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government - To 1775.

Contained In: Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.5

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A prologue to the construction of the fifth Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge

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Author: Newcomer, L. W.

Date of Publication: 1971.

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Responsibility: by L. W. Newcomer.

Author: Newcomer, L. W.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1971.

Physical Description: [119]-124 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 75, no. 3

Subjects: Bridges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Bridges; Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge (Lancaster County, Pa.); Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government.; York County (Pa.) - Politics and government.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 75, number 3 (1971), p. 119-124Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.75

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Members of Congress who represented Lancaster County in the United States Congress from 1789 to the present

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Author: Seyfert, A. G.

Date of Publication: 1930

received by Mr. Stevens who invited him to use his office. Mr. Dickey accepted the offer, all of which tells the story in a sentence, why he became Mr. Stevens' successor. The Old Commoner taught him law and politics. From 1856 to 1859 Mr. Dickey was District Attorney, and during the Civil War, Lieutenant

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Responsibility: by Hon. A. G. Seyfert.

Author: Seyfert, A. G.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1930

Physical Description: [49]-62 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 34, no. 3

Subjects: Legislators - United States.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1865-1950.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 34, number 3 (1930), p. 49-62Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.34

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Speech of Hon. Wm. D. Kelley, in the Northrop-Kelley debate : at Spring Garden Institute, Wednesday, September 28

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Author: Kelley, William D.

Date of Publication: [1864?]

Call Number: 973.891 B628

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Author: Kelley, William D.

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia]

Publisher: Collins,

Date of Publication: [1864?]

Physical Description: 12 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Caption title.; "Phonographic report by D. Wolfe Brown."

Summary: Mr. Kelley supported the continued war with the South. He attacks Mr Northrop for having a conciliatory position toward the South.

Subjects: Northrop, George.; African Americans; Campaign literature, 1864.; United States - Politics and government - 1861-1865.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1861-1865.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 973.891 B628

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Speech of Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the admission of Kansas, under the Lecompton Constitution : delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 4, 1858

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Author: Hammond, James Henry,

Date of Publication: 1858.

Call Number: 973.891 B628

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Author: Hammond, James Henry,

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: Printed by L. Towers,

Date of Publication: 1858.

Physical Description: 15 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; Caption title: Kansas-Lecompton Constitution.; James Henry Hammond (November 15, 1807 - November 13, 1864) was an attorney, politician and planter from South Carolina. He served as a United States Representative from 1835 to 1836, the 60th Governor of South Carolina from 1842 to 1844, and United States Senator from 1857 to 1860. He was considered one of the major spokesmen in favor of slavery in the years before the American Civil War.He popularized the phrase that "Cotton is King" in his March 4, 1858, speech to the US Senate. [from Wikipedia]

Subjects: Statehood (American politics); Kansas - Politics and government - 1854-1861 - Speeches in Congress.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 973.891 B628

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Lancaster

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Corporate Author: League of Women Voters of Lancaster County, Pa.

Date of Publication: 1953-

Call Number: 362.65 L433

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Corporate Author: League of Women Voters of Lancaster County, Pa.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The League,

Date of Publication: 1953-

Physical Description: v. : ill., maps ; 23-25 cm.

Notes: Title varies.; LCHS has 1953, revised 1958, 1964,1970, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1986, 2005.

Subjects: Social service - Lancaster (City), Pa.; Social service - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Politics and government.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 362.65 L433

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"The tyranny of printers" : newspaper politics in the early American republic

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Author: Pasley, Jeffrey L.,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Call Number: 071.73 P282

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Responsibility: Jeffrey L. Pasley.

ISBN: 0813920302 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780813920306 (cloth : alk. paper)

Author: Pasley, Jeffrey L.,

Place of Publication: Charlottesville

Publisher: University Press of Virginia,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: xviii, 517 p. ; 25 cm.

Series: Jeffersonian America

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-498) and index.

Contents: The newspaper-based political system of the nineteenth-century United States -- The printing trade in early American politics -- The two national Gazettes and the beginnings of newspaper politics -- Benjamin Franklin Bache and the price of partisanship -- The background and failure of the sedition Act -- Charles Holt's generation: from commercial printers to political professionals -- The expansion of the Republican newspaper network, 1798-1800 -- A presence in the public sphere: William Duane and the triumph of newspaper politics -- The new conventional wisdom: consolidating and expanding a newspaper-based political system -- The federalists strike back -- Improving on the Sedition Act: press freedom and political culture after 1800 -- The "tyranny of printers" in Jeffersonian Philadelphia -- Ordinary editors and everyday politics: how the system worked -- Newspaper editors and the reconstruction of party politics.

Subjects: Journalism - United States; Press and politics - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 071.73 P282

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Index to the journal of the convention who framed the present Constitution, and of the convention in committee of the whole. : Also, a concise index to the Constitution itself

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention

Date of Publication: 1808.

Call Number: Book 585 1808

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention

Place of Publication: Philadelphia [Pa.]

Publisher: Printed by John Bioren, No. 88, Chesnut-Street.,

Date of Publication: 1808.

Physical Description: 20 p. ; 22 cm (8vo)

Notes: Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Book number 585 as assigned by Yeates.

Contents: Bound with Minutes of the proceedings of the convention of the state of Pennsylvania...Philadelphia, Henry Miller, 1776 - Minutes of the convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania...Philadelpha: Hall and Sellers, 1787 - Minutes of the convention of the commonwealth of Pennshvania...Philadelphia: Zacharia Poulson, 1789 - Minutes of the grand committee of the whole convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,..Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, 1789. - Minutes of the grand committee of the whole convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania...the twenty-fourth day of November 1790.

Subjects: Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania. - Constitutional Convention - (1789-1790); Politics and government.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.; Three-quarters leather on blue boards.; No spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 585 1808

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The counter-revolution in Pennsylvania, 1776-1790

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4549

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Nativism and slavery : the northern Know Nothings and the politics of the 1850's

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17712

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Political divisions of Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7799

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A prologue to the construction of the fifth Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1819

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Members of Congress who represented Lancaster County in the United States Congress from 1789 to the present

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2821

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Speech of Hon. Wm. D. Kelley, in the Northrop-Kelley debate : at Spring Garden Institute, Wednesday, September 28

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20336

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Speech of Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the admission of Kansas, under the Lecompton Constitution : delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 4, 1858

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Lancaster

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"The tyranny of printers" : newspaper politics in the early American republic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17983

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Index to the journal of the convention who framed the present Constitution, and of the convention in committee of the whole. : Also, a concise index to the Constitution itself

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21604

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