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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

Buchanan's campaign in Lancaster County

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Author: Brady, Gerard.

Date of Publication: 1949

Buchanan's Campaign In Lancaster County By GERARD BRADY INTRODUCTION The year 1856 — a year of turmoil in the United States. The question of whether slavery was to be extended into the western territories of the United States was reaching its boiling point. In Kansas a fierce battle was raging over

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Responsibility: by Gerard Brady.

Author: Brady, Gerard.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1949

Physical Description: [97]-135 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 53, no. 4

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Politics, Practical - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Elections - United States; Presidents - United States

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 53, number 4 (1949), p. 97-135Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.53

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Harriet Lane, First Lady of the White House

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Author: Shelley, Mary Virginia.

Date of Publication: c1980.

Call Number: 920.7 L265s 1980

Responsibility: Mary Virginia Shelley & Sandra Harrison Munro ; with ill. by Regina Weatherlow.

ISBN: 0915010291 :

Author: Shelley, Mary Virginia.

Place of Publication: Lititz, PA

Publisher: Sutter House,

Date of Publication: c1980.

Physical Description: 48 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Summary: 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.

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

Additional Author: Munro, Sandra Harrison,; Weatherlow, Regina.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 920.7 L265s 1980

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

Harriet Lane, First Lady of the White House

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Author: Shelley, Mary Virginia.

Date of Publication: 2011.

Call Number: 920.7 L265s 2011

Responsibility: Mary Virginia Shelley & Sandra Harrison Munro.

Author: Shelley, Mary Virginia.

Place of Publication: Charleston, S. C

Publisher: The Authors,

Date of Publication: 2011.

Physical Description: 42 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Summary: 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.

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

Additional Author: Munro, Sandra Harrison,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 920.7 L265s 2011

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

Report of the committee on the W. U. Hensel tablet unveiling

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Date of Publication: 1915

-night to unveil a memorial tablet, the gift of our late fellow member, the Hon. William Uhler Hensel. This tablet is intended to commemorate the pres- ence in past years upon this spot of three Presidents of the United States, and two other candidates for the same high office, but which they failed to

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Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1915

Physical Description: [88]-120 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 19, no. 4

Subjects: Hensel, W. U. - 1851-1915.; Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Greeley, Horace, - 1811-1872.; Hancock, Winfield Scott, - 1824-1886.; Roosevelt, Theodore, - 1858-1919.; Grant, Ulysses S. - 1822-1885.; Washington, George, - 1732-1799.; Hotel Brunswick (Lancaster, Pa.); Hotels - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Lancaster (Pa.) - History.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 19, number 4 (1915), p. 89-120Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.19

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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

Early presidential elections in Lancaster County

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Author: Martin, C. H.

Date of Publication: 1943.

early Pre sidential Elections in Lancaster County By C. H. MARTIN Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, participated in each of the Presidential Elections held since the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. It occupies first place in Pennsylvania in respect to the election of George

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Responsibility: by C. H. Martin.

Author: Martin, C. H.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1943.

Physical Description: [93]-105 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 47, no. 5

Subjects: Presidents - United States; Elections - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 19th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 47, number 5 (1943), p. 93-105Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.47

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The Hessians of Lewis Miller: assimilation of German soldiers in America after the Revolution

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Author: Stayer, Jonathan R..

Date of Publication: 1988.

Call Number: 759.1392 S798

Responsibility: by Jonathan R. Stayer.

ISBN: 0939016079 (pbk.)

Author: Stayer, Jonathan R..

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Penn State Univ.,

Date of Publication: 1988.

Physical Description: iii, 238 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: A project in American Studies submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Arts degree in American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, The Capital College, July 10, 1988.; Bibliography: p. 233-238.

Summary: Lewis Miller was an artist in York, PA. He made sketches of 22 Hessian soldiers who fought for the British during the American revolution and stayed in the York area after its conclusion. The author's book is based on those Hessians. In the introduction, the author states, "The purpose of this paper is to consider the individual soldiers, their families,their lives, and their involvement in the York community in which they settled. What happened to these men after the Revolution ? Why did they choose the communities in which they settled. Were they accepted by the Americans ? Did they experience financial success ? What was the nature of their family life ? Did their families suffer the stigma of having a 'Hessian' patriarch."

Subjects: Miller, Lewis, - 1796-1882.; Sherbahm family.; Sleeger Family.; Stengel Family.; Younger Family.; Zangel Family.; Vogt Family.; Baumgardner Family.; Cramer Family.; Farnschild Family.; Moore Family.; Engelmohr Family.; Hattendorf Family.; Henicker Family.; Herbst Family.; Hubly Family.; Lochner Family.; Stein Family.; Hessians - Pennsylvania - York County; German Americans - Pennsylvania - York County; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Biography.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Portraits.; United StatesÂ Â - HistoryÂ Â - Revolution, 1775-1783Â Â - Participation, German.; York County (Pa.) - Biography.

Additional Corporate Author: Johannes Schwalm Historical Association.; Historical Society of York County (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 759.1392 S798

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.