edited by Jessie Carney Smith ; foreword by Alex Haley.
ISBN
0313225931 (lib. bdg.)
Place of Publication
Westport, Conn
Publisher
Greenwood Press,
Date of Publication
1983.
Physical Description
xxxix, 440 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographies and index.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
Librarians and genealogical research / Russell E. Bidlack -- Basic sources for genealogical research / Jean Elder Cazort -- Library records and research / Casper L. Jordan -- Researching family history / Bobby L. Lovett -- The national archives and records service / James D. Walker -- The genealogical society of Utah library / Roger Scanland -- American indian records and research / Jimmy B. Parker -- Asian-American records and research / Greg Gubler -- Black American records and research / Lyman De Platt.
Presents a biography of James Buchanan's niece who was the White House hostess during her uncle's presidency, helped create the National Gallery of Art, and started the first pediatrics hospital.
This resource is from a Canadian area that was pioneered by Pennsylvania Mennonites from Franklin and Lancaster Counties. The death notices not only document deaths in the Canadian area but also deaths that occurred in Lancaster County.
Abstracts of Carroll County newspapers, 1831-1846 : items taken from the newspapers of the Carrolltonian and Baltimore & Frederick advertiser, the Democrat & Carroll County republican (Westminster), and the Regulator & Taneytown herald
edited by Bernard Bailyn and John B. Hench ; with a foreword by Marcus A. McCorison ; and an afterword by James Russell Wiggins.
ISBN
0912296186 :
Place of Publication
Worcester, [Mass.]
Publisher
American Antiquarian Society,
Date of Publication
1980.
Physical Description
383 p. ; 27 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Essays: 1. Printers and the American Revolution -- by Stephen Botein / 2. Freedom of the press in revolutionary America : The evolution of libertarianism, 1760 - 1820 -- by Richard Buel Jr / 3. The role of the newspaper press in the southern colonies on the eve of the Revolution : an interpretation -- by Robert M. Weir / 4. The Colonial German-language press and the American Revolution -- by Willi Paul Adams / 5. The character and coherence of the Loyalist press -- by Janice Potter and Robert M. Calhoon / 6. British correspondence in the colonial press, 1763 - 1775 ; a study in Anglo-American Misunderstanding before the American Revolution -- by Paul Langford / 7. Some statistics on American printing, 1764-1783, by G. Thomas Tanselle / 8. Afterword : The Legacy of the Press in the American Revolution, by James Russell Wiggins
Summary
In the forward, the book is described as a colleciton of "essays on the activities, place, and influence of American printers and journalists during the period of our Revolution."
