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TitleNew Amsterdam Family Names and Their Origin
AuthorFernow, Berthold
Date Created1898
DescriptionBeginning with a comparison of Native American and European naming customs, this booklet discusses the derivations of the patronymics found in the index to the "Records of New Amsterdam." Several of...
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TitlePersonal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan
AuthorSheridan, Philip Henry
Date Created1888-08-02
DescriptionSheridan's two autobiographical volumes explored life in the United States before, during and after the 'War of Rebellion.' Sheridan was born to immigrant Irish parents who moved with the westward...
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TitleThe black experience in America: The immigrant heritage of America
Date Created1993-05-00
DescriptionThis study described the character and culture the African-American people have created for themselves in the United States, first as slaves and then as a free people. It pointed to the many important...
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TitleHasty recognition of rebel belligerency and our right to complain of it.
Date Created1865
DescriptionThis short text of four chapters plus an appendix seek to meet and answer the position, set up by Earl Russell, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1861, that the recognition of the...
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TitleRoster of the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery: historical sketch and present addresses of members
Date Created1890
DescriptionCompilation of names and places of residence for United States Civil War members of the Connecticut Heavy Artillery, "1st Ct. V.H. Artillery", circa 1890. Work included a historical sketch of the...
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TitleHistory made visible: A synchronic chart and statistical tables of United States history by George E. Croscup, B.A.
Date Created1910-10-00
DescriptionThis book was an attempt by two authors to visually demonstrate in text and in a charted timeline, events, large and small, in U.S. political development and in the world during the prior four...
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TitleA sermon of the Mexican War
Date Created1848
DescriptionAn anti-war and anti-slavery sermon that condemned President James A. Polk for the hasty annexation of Texas territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers and criticized the large cost in money...
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TitleDid General Meade desire to retreat at the Battle of Gettysburg?
Date Created1883
DescriptionThis book examined discrepancies in the testimony and historical writings by Generals Pleasanton, Butterfield and Doubleday in which General Meade (1815-1872) is accused of desiring a retreat on July...
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TitleThe present crisis and its issues: an address delivered before the literary societies of Washington and Lee University
Date Created1872
DescriptionAfter an historic overview of power shifts and the demise of nations throughout history, the speaker points to the positioning of political parties in the U.S. during the post Civil War period of...
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TitleReport of Lieutenant General U. S. Grant, of the armies of the United States 1864-65
Date Created1865
DescriptionReport to the U.S. Secretary of War on the operations by the union armies of the U.S. under the command of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant from the time of his appointment in March, 1864 to the...