The Hague: August 1, 1795. "The character of the American people is so universally and essentially republican..." Nathaniel Freeman, Jr. (1766-1800) was a Harvard classmate of Adams. Initially elected to the Fourth Congress as a Federalist Representative in 1795, he would change party affiliation to Jefferson's Democratic Republicans in 1797..... Read More about Important Autograph Letter Signed, to Nathaniel Freeman, on the disagreements between Federalists...

Washington, D.C: Judd & Detweiler, Printers, 1891. First edition. Anna Ella Carroll (1815-1894), a descendant of Signer of the Declaration Charles Carroll and the daughter of the Governor of Maryland, became active in politics in the 1850s as a member of the Know-Nothing party and a supporter of Millard Fillmore..... Read More about A Military Genius. Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland, ("The great unrecognized member of...

Tennessee: December 1, 1863 to August 23, 1864. The 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, "Anderson's Cavary" was an independent unit reporting directly to the headquarters of the Army of the Cumberland, performing escort, scouting, courier and other details. The regiment served with distinction during the Tullahoma Campaign and at the Battle of..... Read More about Diary of a private in Company C, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, covering his service in Tennessee in...

New York: November 1966. The prospectus presents the report of T.B. Moses, describing the claims in the Central City and Gregory districts. The second page includes a large diagram of the lodes. The stock certificate is signed by John A. Dix, who following the Civil War also served as the..... Read More about North Clear Creek Gold and Silver Mining Company of Colorado [unaccomplished stock certificate...

Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1800. First edition. The present work concerns the trial and subsequent imprisonment of Thomas Cooper, an Englishman by birth who loved in Northumberland, Pennsylvania and worked as a lawyer and newspaper editor, for violating the Alien and Sedition Act. In 1799, he had requested John Adams to..... Read More about An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper, of Northumberland; on a charge of libel against the...

Washington, D.C: George S. Gideon, July 6 to November 16, 1848. Whig Campaign Newspaper for Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. Scarce complete run of the weekly political newspaper "devoted to the support of Taylor and Fillmore" published during their campaign in the Election of 1848, which pitted the Whig Zachary..... Read More about The Battery

New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885-1886. First edition, the deluxe binding. Deluxe Copy in Superior Condition. The president and Civil War general's remarkable memoir, written in the final years of his life as he was suffering from terminal throat cancer. Suffering both physically and financially, as the result of financial..... Read More about Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

London: Printed by J. C. Chappell, 1837. First edition. An impassioned appeal by Henry Sterne, resident of St. George, Jamaica, in defense of "apprentices" (i.e. newly-freed slaves following the 1834 emancipation in the West Indies) who have suffered mistreatment, citing detailed legal cases and presenting legal and religious arguments: "The..... Read More about A Statement of Facts, Submitted to the Right Hon. Lord Glenelg, His Majesty's Principal Secretary...

[Philadelphia]: [1856]. "This political cartoon appeared during the 1856 presidential election and takes a vehement stance against the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Designed to open these territories to settlement, this act employed the doctrine of popular sovereignty to allow the people living in Kansas and Nebraska to vote these states..... Read More about Liberty, the Fair Maid of Kansas, in the Hands of the Border Ruffians