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James Buchanan : fifteenth president of the United States

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Author: Brill, Marlene Targ.

Date of Publication: c1988.

Call Number: 923.173 B918br

Responsibility: by Marlene Targ Brill.

ISBN: 0516013580; 9780516013589

Author: Brill, Marlene Targ.

Place of Publication: Chicago

Publisher: Childrens Press,

Date of Publication: c1988.

Physical Description: 98 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series: Encyclopedia of presidents

Notes: Includes index.

Summary: Describes the early life and political career of the man who served as president in the years just before the Civil War.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Presidents - United States - Biography - Juvenile literature.; Presidents.; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861 - Juvenile literature.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 B918br

James Buchanan, the bachelor of the White House: an inquiry on the subject of feminine influence in the life of our fifteenth president

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Author: Auchampaugh, Philip G.

Call Number: 923.172 B918auch

Responsibility: by Philip G Auchampaugh.

Author: Auchampaugh, Philip G.

Physical Description: p. 154-166; 218-234.

Notes: In: Tyler's quarterly historical and genealogical magazine: v. 20, Nos. 3 & 4 (January and April 1939)

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.; Coleman, Anne.; Parker, Esther.; Henry, James Buchanan.; Presidents - United States; Presidents

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.172 B918auch

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

Responsibility: 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

In search of Buchanan : 'Clarior hinc honos' : the stories of some Buchanan ancestors before and after the emigration of James Buchanan of Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland, in 1783

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Author: Martin, Irene.

Date of Publication: 2011.

Call Number: 923.173 B918ma

Responsibility: Irene Martin.

ISBN: 9780956797902; 0956797903

Author: Martin, Irene.

Place of Publication: [Ireland]

Publisher: Rossnashannagh,

Date of Publication: 2011.

Physical Description: iii, 152, [17] pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 25 cm

Notes: Sub-title on cover: from Anselan to President James Buchanan.; "Some of these stories are incorporated in the BBC1 TV documentary, 'Are you related to an American President?', produced by Big Mountain Productions."; Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Buchanan family.; Scotland - Genealogy.; Ireland - Genealogy.; United States - Genealogy.; Ireland.; Scotland.; United States.; Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 B918ma

Wheatland, home of James Buchanan : 15th President of the United States, 1857-1861

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Author: Klein, Frederic Shriver,

Date of Publication: 1970.

Call Number: 728.37 K64

Author: Klein, Frederic Shriver,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Penna

Publisher: Stel-mar,

Date of Publication: 1970.

Physical Description: [28] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Notes: "Text by Frederic S. Klein; Color Photography by Marshall Dussinger; Cover from an Original Painting by Florence Starr Taylor; Copyright by M. A. Dussinger."

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Homes and haunts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.); Presidents - United States

Additional Author: Dussinger, Marshall..; Taylor, Florence Starr..

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.37 K64

Dedication of the monument to James Buchanan, fifteenth president of the United States, donated to the city of Lancaster by Dulon F. Buchmiller on the sixtieth anniversary of Mr. Buchanan's death, Friday, June the first, 1928, erected in Buchanan Park, Lancaster, Penna

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Date of Publication: 1928.

Call Number: 923.1 B818de

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1928.

Physical Description: [8] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Statues.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.1 B818de

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

Corporate Author: 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

James Buchanan and his family at Wheatland

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Author: Cahalan, Sally Smith.

Date of Publication: c1988.

Call Number: 728.37 C132j

Alternate Title: James Buchanan's Wheatland

Responsibility: by Sally Smith Cahalan ; [photography by John P. Herr].

Author: Cahalan, Sally Smith.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: James Buchanan Foundation,

Date of Publication: c1988.

Physical Description: 100 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Notes: Cover title: James Buchanan's Wheatland.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Homes and haunts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Family.; Buchanan family.; Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.); Presidents - United States; Lancaster (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.37 C132j

Wheatland : home of James Buchanan, newest of Presidential mansions to be restored and opened as a national shrine

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Author: Klein, Frederic S.

Call Number: 728.27 K64w

Responsibility: by Frederic S. Klein

Author: Klein, Frederic S.

Physical Description: p. 44-29. 28 cm.

Series: American Heritage v. 5, no. 3 (Spring 1954)

Notes: In: American Heritage, v.5, no. 3 (Spring 1954)

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Homes and haunts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.); Presidents - United States; Historic house museums

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.27 K64w

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

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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

James Buchanan

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Author: Santella, Andrew.

Date of Publication: c2003.

Call Number: 923.173 B918sa

Responsibility: by Andrew Santella.

ISBN: 0756502632 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Author: Santella, Andrew.

Place of Publication: Minneapolis, Minn

Publisher: Compass Point Books,

Date of Publication: c2003.

Physical Description: 64p.: ill.; 24 cm.

Series: Profiles of the presidents

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Reason to celebrate -- Young man of Pennsylvania -- A life in politics -- Honors at home and abroad -- A run for the White House -- Conflicts and controversies -- Bleeding Kansas and John Brown -- A nation divided -- Taking the blame -- Glossary -- James Buchanan's life at a glance -- James Buchanan's life and times -- World events -- Understanding James Buchanan and his presidency better.

Summary: A biography of the fifteenth president of the United States, discussing his personal life, education, and political career.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Presidents - United States - Biography - Juvenile literature.; Presidents.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 B918sa

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

Responsibility: 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

To what extent did Harriet Lance influence the public policies of James Buchanan?

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Author: Rosenberger, Homer Tope,

Date of Publication: 1970.

Administration of her bachelor uncle, James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States. — From the Col- lections of the Library of Congress. �A hostess with little perceptivity and restraint would have soon placed the President in embarrassing situations. Because of her good judgment a number of Buchanan's

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Responsibility: by Homer T. Rosenberger.

Author: Rosenberger, Homer Tope,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1970.

Physical Description: [1]-22 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 74, no. 1

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.; Presidents - United States; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 74, number 1 (1970), p. 1-22Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.74

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At home with James Buchanan

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Author: Cahalan, Sally Smith.

Date of Publication: c1989.

Call Number: 728.37 C132

Responsibility: Sally Smith Cahalan.

Author: Cahalan, Sally Smith.

Place of Publication: Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: Science Press,

Date of Publication: c1989.

Physical Description: 120 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series: Science Press Keepsake ; no.20.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Homes and haunts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.); Presidents - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.37 C132

The historical reputation of James Buchanan

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Author: Risser, John.

Call Number: 905.748

Responsibility: by John Risser.

Author: Risser, John.

Physical Description: 18-21 p.

Notes: In: Susquehana Monthly Magazine v. 13, no. 1(January 1988); Cover reproduces Charles DeMuth's painting "Buildings, Lancaster) 1930.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Presidents - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.748

James Buchanan and the American empire

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Author: Binder, Frederick M.

Date of Publication: c1994

Call Number: 923.173 B918bi

Responsibility: Frederick Moore Binder.

ISBN: 0945636644 (alk. paper)

Author: Binder, Frederick M.

Place of Publication: Selinsgrove [Pa.] : London ; Cranbury, NJ

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press ; Associated University Presses,

Date of Publication: c1994

Physical Description: 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-308) and index.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Presidents - United States; United States - Foreign relations - 1815-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 B918bi

Papers of James Buchanan and Harriet L. Johnston

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Author: Buchanan, James,

Date of Publication: 1977.

Call Number: Drawer 17, Sec. 1

Author: Buchanan, James,

Place of Publication: [Washington, D.C.]

Publisher: Library of Congress Photoduplication Service,

Date of Publication: 1977.

Physical Description: 4 reels ; 35 mm.

Notes: Labeled on box #340-343; "Mss. 16,968."; Includes index: reel 1.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Presidents - United States; United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861 - Sources.

Additional Author: Johnston, Harriet Lane,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 17, Sec. 1

Alta California : embracing notices of the climate, soil, and agricultural products of northern Mexico and the Pacific seaboard : also, a history of the military and naval operations of the United States directed against the territories of northern Mexico, in the year 1846-'47 : with documents declaratory of the policy of the present administration of the national government in regard to the annexation of conquered territory to this union, and the opinion of the Hon. James Buchanan on the Wilmot Proviso, &c

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Author: Captain of volunteers.

Date of Publication: 1847.

Call Number: 979.4403 C254

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Responsibility: by a Captain of volunteers.

Author: Captain of volunteers.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: H. Packer & Co. ...,

Date of Publication: 1847.

Physical Description: [2], 5-64 p. (first leaf blank) ; 25 cm.

Notes: This copy is a reproduction ISBN 0548410593.; Description of area: p. 9-12; history and documentation: p. 13-64.; Anti-annexation tract.

Summary: The 1847 publication briefly address climate soil and agriculture in Alta and Baja California in chapter I. The following eight chapters consist of communications from the U.S. Government consisting of instructions in the event Mexico declared war, justification of and motives for war, various reports to Washington, communications with Mexican officials in Alta California, accounts of the military operations in California, the articles of capitulation entered into at Rancho of Cowanga on January 13, 1847, all of which are interspersed with personal observations and comments by the author. The final chapter deals with the question of whether slavery would be allowed in California, the policy of the South and its motive for a slave market and emigrants to California and Northern Mexico [from California State University's Digital Commons]

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Mexican War, 1846-1848.; California - Description and travel.; California - History - 1846-1850.; Mexico, North - Description and travel.; California - Annexation to the United States.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 979.4403 C254

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A Pennsylvania Presbyterian president : An inquiry into the religious sentiments and character of James Buchanan, fifteenth president of the United States, 1857-1861

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Author: Hensel, W. U.

Date of Publication: 1907?]

Call Number: 923.173 B918hw

Responsibility: An address by W.U. Hensel, before the Presbyterian social union, Philadelphia. Monday, November 25th, 1907.

Author: Hensel, W. U.

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia?

Date of Publication: 1907?]

Physical Description: 14 p. ; 22 cm.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 B918hw

President Buchanan: Trapped in a whirlwind : Harriet Lane: torn between love and loyalty: the Union unravels in Secession Crisis

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Author: Kessler, Charles H.

Date of Publication: 2003.

Call Number: 923.173 B918t

Responsibility: by Charles H. Kessler.

Author: Kessler, Charles H.

Place of Publication: [s.l

Publisher: s.n.]

Date of Publication: 2003.

Notes: "A History Novel".

Subjects: Buchanan, James , - 1791-1868 - Fiction.; Johnston, Harriet Lane , - 1830-1903 - Fiction.; Presidents - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 B918t

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