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The presidents' war : six American presidents and the Civil War that divided them

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Author
DeRose, Chris
Date of Publication
2014.
Call Number
973.7092 D437d
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Chris DeRose.
ISBN
9780762796649
0762796642
Author
DeRose, Chris
Place of Publication
Guilford, Connecticut
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press,
Date of Publication
2014.
Physical Description
xii, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-366) and index.
Summary
Tells the story of how five ex-presidents--for and against Abraham Lincoln (but mostly against)--maneuvered, seceded, plotted, advised and aided during the Civil War while Lincoln navigated the minefield they created.
Subjects
Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865 - Adversaries.
Lincoln, Abraham - (1809-1865).
Buchanan, James - (1791-1868).
Ex-presidents - United States
United States - Politics and government - 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7092 D437d
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Lincoln : a life of purpose and power

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Author
Carwardine, Richard.
Edition
1st American ed.
Date of Publication
2006.
Call Number
923.173 L736c
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Richard Carwardine.
ISBN
1400044561
9781400044566
Author
Carwardine, Richard.
Edition
1st American ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf,
Date of Publication
2006.
Physical Description
xv, 394 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
Originally published: London : Pearson Education, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-360) and index.
Contents
1. Inner power : Lincoln's ambition and political vision, 1809-54 -- Ambition -- Political vision -- Moral crisis : 1854 -- The religious roots of moral power -- 2. The power of opinion : Lincoln : the Illinois public and the new political order, 1854-58 -- Lincoln, democratic politics and public opinion -- Illinois public opinion and the anti-Nebraska fusion movement -- The senatorial campaign of 1858 -- 3. The power of party : winning the presidency, 1858-60 -- Presidential ambition : Lincoln, his party and the road to the Decatur convention -- The Republican presidential nomination -- The 1860 presidential campaign : the power of a righteous party -- 4. Confronting the limits of power : from president-elect to war president, 1860-61 -- In the antechamber to power : holding the party line -- From Springfield to Sumter : building a united front -- Strategies for 'a people's war' -- 'What shall I do? The people are impatient ... ' -- 5. The purposes of power : evolving objectives, 1861-65 -- Reading the public -- 'Every indispensable means' : toward the Emancipation Proclamation -- Faith and purposes -- Faithfulness of purpose : emancipation, reconstruction and black citizenship -- 6. The instruments of power : coercion and voluntary mobilization, 1861-65 -- Coercion, repression and executive power -- Popular mobilization : the 'power of the right word' and the agency of party -- Popular mobilization : churches and philanthropic organizations -- The Union army as a moral force -- The election of 1864 : 'the second birth of our nation' -- 7. Conclusion : power in death -- Chronology of Lincoln's life.
Summary
A portrait of America's sixteenth president follows Lincoln's life and career during his rise to political power and his years in the White House, arguing that he looked beyond the political system to find support in his struggle to end slavery.
Subjects
Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865.
Presidents - United States - Biography.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 L736c
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Address of the Union State Central Committee to the people of Pennsylvania and the platforms of the two political organizations for 1865

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Corporate Author
Union Party (Pa.). State Central Committee.
Date of Publication
1865.
Call Number
973.891 B891
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Union Party (Pa.). State Central Committee.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
King & Baird, Printers,
Date of Publication
1865.
Physical Description
16 p.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865.
Reconstruction.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1861-1865.
Additional Corporate Author
Union Party (Pa.). Convention
Democratic Party (Pa.). Convention
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
973.891 B891
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James Buchanan during the administrations of Lincoln and Johnson

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Author
Auchampaugh, Philip Gerald.
Date of Publication
1939
portion of that time had been �spent there; that he knew almost every person in the district, and had prob- ably attended more weddings in Washington than any other person. "In alluding to the opposition of portions of the South to the new Ad- ministration, he said he saw no occasion for it as Mr. Lincoln
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by Philip G. Auchampaugh, Ph.D.
Author
Auchampaugh, Philip Gerald.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1939
Physical Description
[67]-110 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 43, no. 3
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865.
Johnson, Andrew, - 1808-1875.
United States - Politics and government - 1861-1865.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 43, number 3 (1939), p. 67-110Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.43
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The panic of 1857 and the coming of the Civil War

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Author
Huston, James L.,
Date of Publication
c1987.
Call Number
338.5 H972
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James L. Huston.
ISBN
0807113689
9780807113684
0807124923
9780807124925
Author
Huston, James L.,
Place of Publication
Baton Rouge
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press,
Date of Publication
c1987.
Physical Description
xviii, 315 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [283]-306.
Subjects
Depressions
United States - Economic conditions - To 1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
Depressions - 1857 - United States
United States - Economic conditions - To 1865
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
338.5 H972
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The worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens : place, personality, and politics in the Civil War era

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Date of Publication
[2019]
Call Number
973.68 B619
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edited by Michael J. Birkner, Randall M. Miller, and John W. Quist.
ISBN
9780807170816 (cloth : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Baton Rouge
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press,
Date of Publication
[2019]
Physical Description
xiv, 279 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Series
Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : possessing the power : the role of force in James Buchanan's Caribbean policy / Amy S. Greenberg -- The bachelor's mess : James Buchanan and the domestic politics of doughfacery in Jacksonian America / Thomas J. Balcerski -- Stephen A. Douglas, free-soiler : a counterfactual analysis of party reformation in the 1850s / Douglas R. Egerton -- "General Jackson is dead" : dissecting a popular anecdote of nineteenth-century party leadership / Matthew Pinsker -- "Buck all over" : James Buchanan and a trail of broken relationships / William P. MacKinnon -- Slavery and the breakup of the Democratic Party in the North : a battle of ideas and organization / Frank Towers -- Friends and outliers : Varina Davis, James Buchanan, and gender relations in Antebellum Washington / Joan E. Cashin -- "Like the baseless fabric of a vision" : Thaddeus Stevens and confiscation reconsidered / John David Smith -- "Eastern and Western empire" : Thaddeus Stevens and the greater Reconstruction / Michael Green -- A conversation with Bruce Levine and James Oakes : moderated by Randall M. Miller.
Summary
"The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era's most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were bachelors. During the 1850s, James Buchanan tried to keep the Democratic Party alive as the slavery debate divided his peers and the political system. Thaddeus Stevens, meanwhile, as Whig turned Republican, invested in the federal government to encourage economic development and social reform, especially antislavery and Republican Reconstruction"--
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Political and social views.
Stevens, Thaddeus, - 1792-1868 - Political and social views.
Legislators - United States - Biography.
Politicians - United States - Biography.
United States - History - 1815-1861.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 19th century.
Additional Author
Birkner, Michael J.,
Miller, Randall M.,
Quist, John W.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.68 B619
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Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the thirty-sixth Congress

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Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Date of Publication
1860.
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860 36th, 1st
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United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Place of Publication
Washington, [D.C.]
Publisher
George W. Bowman, printer,
Date of Publication
1860.
Physical Description
v. ; 23 cm.
Series
36th Congress. 1st session. Senate Ex. Doc ; no. 2
Notes
Library has Vol. 1 only.
Contents
v. 1. Annual message of the President ; Report of the Secretary of the Interior ; Report of the Secretary of War ; Report of the Secretary of the Navy ; Report of the Postmaster-General -- v. 2. Report of the Secretary of War --
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Presidents - United States - Messages.
Political science.
Presidents.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861 - Sources.
United States - History - 1849-1877 - Sources.
United States.
History.
Sources.
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Department of the Interior.
United States. War Department.
United States. Navy Department.
United States. Postmaster General.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860 36th, 1st
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Life of George Mifflin Dallas, vice president of the United States: Prepared and published in Sepember, 1844, by the Democratic Committee of Publication, John K. Kane, et al

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Edition
Extended to the present time, and reprinted Nov. 1847.
Date of Publication
1847.
Call Number
815 P769 # 40
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Extended to the present time, and reprinted Nov. 1847.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia [Pa.]
Publisher
Times and Keystone Job Office,
Date of Publication
1847.
Physical Description
20 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Cover title: Life of George M. Dallas, vice president of the United States.
In: Political Speeches.
Subjects
Dallas, George Mifflin, - 1792-1864.
United States. - Congress. - Senate - Biography.
Vice-Presidents - United States - Biography.
Legislators - United States - Biography.
United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Philadelphia (Pa.) - Biography.
Additional Author
Kane, John K.
Additional Corporate Author
Democratic Party (U.S.). Committee of Publication.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
815 P769 # 40
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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
Websites
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0603/91043352-d.html
http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780195072334.pdf
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The Lincoln trail in Pennsylvania : a history and guide

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Author
Hoch, Bradley R.,
Date of Publication
c2001.
Call Number
923.173 L736h
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byBradley R. Hoch ; with a foreword by Gabor S. Boritt.
ISBN
0271021195 (aciffree paper)
Author
Hoch, Bradley R.,
Place of Publication
University Park, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication
c2001.
Physical Description
xviii, 210 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Notes
"A Keystone book."
Includes several references to Lancaster.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-203) and index.
Contents
Chapters: Washington's Birthday 1861 / Lincoln Ancestors / Lincoln In Congress / Lincoln and The Pennsylvania Politicians / The Inaugural Train / Lincoln and The Railroads / The Gettysburg Address / The Great Central Sanitary Fair / The Funeral Train / The Literal Trail, sites to visit
Summary
It is the story of Abraham Lincoln in the Keystone State-the chronicle of where he went, what he did, and what he said in the state. The trail begins with Lincoln's Pennsylvania ancestors, moves on to his travels, public appearances, and speeches, and concludes with his funeral train in 1865. The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania tells a story for the reader, but it is also a guide for those who would travel the state figuratively or literally, to recover the memory of America's sixteenth president. [from the publisher]
Subjects
Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865 - Journeys - Pennsylvania.
Historic sites - Pennsylvania.
Presidents - United States - Biography.
Pennsylvania - History - 19th century - Anecdotes.
Pennsylvania - History, Local.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 L736h
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Worst. President. Ever. : James Buchanan, the POTUS rating game, and the legacy of the least of the lesser presidents

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Author
Strauss, Robert,
Date of Publication
2016.
Call Number
923.173 B918str
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Robert Strauss.
ISBN
9781493024834
1493024833
Author
Strauss, Robert,
Place of Publication
Guilford, Connecticut
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield,
Date of Publication
2016.
Physical Description
xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introducing the worst. President. Ever -- The Young Buck -- Up from Lancaster -- The man who would be president, again and again -- The election of 1856: the most consequential in American history -- The worst presidency begins -- The middle Buchanan presidency: hardly better -- Mr. Buchanan's War -- The legacy of the least of the lesser presidents.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Presidents - United States - Biography.
Politics and government.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
United States.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918str
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Thaddeus Stevens and the Southern States

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Author
Haldeman, Horace L.
Date of Publication
1913
. (Clement Claiborne), 1816-1882. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Assassination. United States--Politics and government--1865-1869. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 159-167 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 6
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by Horace L. Haldeman
Author
Haldeman, Horace L.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1913
Physical Description
159-167 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 6
Subjects
Stevens, Thaddeus, - 1792-1868.
Clay, C. C. - 1816-1882.
Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865 - Assassination.
United States - Politics and government - 1865-1869.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 17, number 6 (1913), p. 159-167Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.17
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Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877

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Author
Foner, Eric.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
c1988.
Call Number
973.8 F673
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Eric Foner.
ISBN
0060158514 :
006091453X (pbk.) :
Author
Foner, Eric.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Harper & Row,
Date of Publication
c1988.
Physical Description
xxvii, 690 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series
The New American Nation series
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 615-641.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
The author, Eric Foner, is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography, and has been a member of the faculty at the Columbia University Department of History since 1982. [wikipedia]
Contents
Chapters: The world the war made -- Rehearsals for reconstruction -- The meaning of freedom -- Ambiguities of labor -- The failure of presidential reconstruction -- The making of radical reconstruction -- Blueprints for a Republican south -- Reconstruction : political and economic -- The challenge of enforcement -- The reconstruction of the north -- The politics of depression -- Redemption and after
Summary
"Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans-black and white-responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the ways in which the emancipated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction; the remodeling of Southern society and the place of planters, merchants, and small farmers within it; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans." [from the publisher]
Subjects
Reconstruction.
African Americans
United States - Politics and government - 1865-1877.
United States - Politics and government - Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1865-1869.
United States - Political events, 1861-1901
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.8 F673
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The life of Thaddeus Stevens; a study in American political history, especially in the period of the civil war and reconstruction

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Author
Woodburn, James Albert,
Date of Publication
[c1913]
Call Number
923.2 S846wo
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by James Albert Woodburn.
Author
Woodburn, James Albert,
Place of Publication
Indianapolis
Publisher
The Bobbs-Merrill company
Date of Publication
[c1913]
Physical Description
620 p. illus. 21 cm.
Notes
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Subjects
Stevens, Thaddeus, - 1792-1868.
United States - Politics and government - Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1865-1869.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 S846wo
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America; : being the second session of the Second Congress, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, November 5th, 1792, and in the seventeenth year of the sovereignty of the said United States

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Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Date of Publication
MDCCXCII [i.e. 1793].
Call Number
Book 841 1792
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Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by John Fenno, in Fifth-Street.,
Date of Publication
MDCCXCII [i.e. 1793].
Physical Description
100 p. ; 33 cm (fol.)
Notes
Second Congress, 2nd Session: from 5 November 1792 to 2 March 1793.
Speech of President Washington to Congress, Nov. 6, 1792: p. 5-9.
Signed on p. 89: Samuel A. Otis, secretary [of the Senate].
Signatures: [A]² B-2B².
Appendix: Titles of the acts passed at the second session of the Second Congress of the United States, begun and held at Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the 5th day of November 1792. -- Bills originated during the session, but were either rejected or postponed. -- The classes of the Senators of the United States, on the 4th day of March 1793.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 841 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes index: pages 93-100.
English short title catalogue,
Evans, C. American bibliography,
Subjects
United States. - Congress. - Senate - Periodicals.
United States. - Congress. - Senate.
Constitutions - United States.
Constitutional law - United States.
Legislation - United States - Periodicals.
Constitutional law.
Constitutions.
Legislation.
Politics and government.
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1797 - Sources.
United States - History - Constitutional period, 1789-1809 - Sources.
United States.
History.
Periodicals.
Sources.
Half leather on boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Otis, Samuel Allyne,
Fenno, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington)
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 841 1792
Websites
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Personal recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War

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Author
Gilmore, James R.
Date of Publication
2007.
Call Number
973.7092 G488
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James R. Gilmore.
ISBN
9780811702614
0811702618
Author
Gilmore, James R.
Place of Publication
Mechanicsburg, PA
Publisher
Stackpole Books,
Date of Publication
2007.
Physical Description
338 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
A Stackpole classic reprint
Notes
Originally published: Boston : L.C. Page and Co., 1898.
Includes index.
Contents
Chapters: My first interview with President Lincoln - A cabinet session - The great uprising - Acquaintance with Horace Greeley - The emancipation proclamatio - nThe book " Among the Pines " - The emancipation proclamation - The New York Tribune - Dissatisfaction with President Lincoln - Travel in wartime - With " Old Rosey" - Rosecrans declines presidential nomination - Conferences with Lincoln - The Tribune in the draft riots - Recession of North Carolina - Preliminaries to the peace mission - Our visit to Richmond - The great conspiracy.
Summary
"Reporter James R. Gilmore first interviewed President Abraham Lincoln the day after the Civil War erupted in April 1861 and, over the course of the war, came to know the president intimately. Gathered here are Gilmore's firsthand accounts of his meetings with Lincoln, where the president openly discussed military and political strategy, including the response to the Southern attack on Fort Sumter and the Emancipation Proclamation. Gilmore also writes about his encounters with influential newspaperman Horace Greeley, his two weeks at the front with Union general William Rosecrans, and behind-enemy-lines interview with Confederate president Jefferson Davis in 1864." [from publisher]
Subjects
Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1864 - Personal narratives.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7092 G488
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American creation : triumphs and tragedies at the founding of the republic

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Author
Ellis, Joseph J.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
2007.
Call Number
973.3 E47
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Joseph J. Ellis.
ISBN
9780307263698
030726369X
Author
Ellis, Joseph J.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
A. A. Knopf,
Date of Publication
2007.
Physical Description
xi, 283 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
An ironic examination of the founding years of our country. Historian Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation's founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic leaders. He explains how the idea of a strong federal government, championed by Washington, was eventually embraced by the American people, the majority of whom had to be won over. And he details the emergence of the two-party system--then a political novelty--which today stands as the founders' most enduring legacy. But Ellis is equally incisive about their failures, making clear how their inability to abolish slavery and to reach a just settlement with the Native Americans has played an equally important role in shaping our national character. Ellis strips the mythic veneer of the revolutionary generation to reveal men possessed of both brilliance and blindness.--From publisher description.
Subjects
Statesmen - United States
Politicians - United States
Political culture - United States
National characteristics, American.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States - History - 1783-1815.
United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783.
United States - Politics and government - 1783-1809.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.3 E47
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The American statesman: a political history, exhibiting the origin, nature and practical operation of constitutional government in the United States; the rise and progress of parties, the legislation relating to all matters of national importance, with views of distinguished statesmen on questions of foreign and domestic policy

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo683
Author
Young, Andrew W.
Edition
Rev. and enl.
Date of Publication
[1877]
Call Number
973 Y68
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Responsibility
By Andrew W. Young ...
Author
Young, Andrew W.
Edition
Rev. and enl.
Place of Publication
New York [etc.]
Publisher
H.S. Goodspeed & Company
Date of Publication
[1877]
Physical Description
xxxv, [21]-1594, 70 p. 10 port. (incl. front.) 24 cm.
Subjects
United States - Politics and government.
United States - History.
United States - Politics and government - 1783-1865.
United States - History - 1783-1865.
United States - Constitutional history.
Additional Author
Ferris, George T.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973 Y68
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America in 1857 : a nation on the brink

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19772
Author
Stampp, Kenneth M.
Date of Publication
1990.
Call Number
973.68 S783
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Responsibility
Kenneth M. Stampp.
ISBN
0195039025 (alk. paper)
9780195039023 (alk. paper)
0195074815 (pbk)
9780195074819 (pbk)
Author
Stampp, Kenneth M.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
1990.
Physical Description
ix, 388 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Autographed by the author.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-376) and index.
Contents
A new year and a fresh start -- Politics and the social milieu -- James Buchanan : President-elect -- The President, the Chief Justice, and a slave named Scott -- The heart of the matter : slavery and sectionalism -- Popular sovereignty, Kansas style -- Dog days -- Flush times and an autumn panic -- Northern politics : the parties in equipoise -- Politics as farce : the Lecompton Constitution -- Politics as tragedy : Buchanan's decision -- 1858 : the fruits of Lecompton.
Summary
It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused widespread unemployment among industrial workers. The Mormons in Utah Territory threatened rebellion when federal troops approached with a non-Morman governor to replace Brigham Young. The Supreme Court outraged northernRepublicans and abolitionists with the Dred Scott decision ("a breathtaking example of judicial activism"). etc.
Subjects
Political science.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
USA
United States.
United States - History, 1845-1861
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.68 S783
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Trial of the assassins and conspirators for the murder of Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of Vice-President Johnson and the whole cabinet : the most intensely interesting trial on record : containing the evidence in full, with arguments of counsel on both sides, and the verdict of the military commission : correct likenesses and graphic history of all the assassins, conspirators, and other persons connected with their arrest and trial

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18141
Date of Publication
c1864 [i.e. 1865]
Call Number
973.7092 T819
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Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Barclay & Co.,
Date of Publication
c1864 [i.e. 1865]
Physical Description
21-102 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., map, plans, ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Trial of David E. Herold, George A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, Michael O'Laughlin, Edward Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Mary E. Surratt, and Samuel A. Mudd, before a military commission at Washington, D.C.
Subjects
Herold, David E., - 1844-1865 - Trials, litigation, etc.
Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865 - Assassination.
Trials (Murder) - Washington (D.C.)
Trials (Assassination) - Washington (D.C.)
Trials (Conspiracy) - Washington (D.C.)
True crime literature.
Additional Author
Herold, David E.,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Army. Military Commission (Lincoln's assassins : 1865)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7092 T819
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