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The Cooper Union Address given by Abraham Lincoln in the Great Hall of The Cooper Union in New York February 27, 1860

With an introduction written by Leroy H. Buckingham, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, The Cooper Union. Published by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 1960. Buckingham's introduction discusses Lincoln's political...

GLC04471.09

The New York conspiracy... with an introduction by Thomas J. Davis [reprint]

Paperback reprint by Beacon Press of Horsmanden's "A Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy formed by some White People in conjunction with Negro and other Slaves, for burning the City of New-York...."

GLC04205.02

Pardon for Brian L. Butcher convicted of uninsured use of motor vehicle

GLC03934

to Glenn Dumke

Attacks the liberal mind set on college campuses (possibly with the University of California Berkeley in mind) by criticizing the "trash" on campuses and condemning "the excuse of academic freedom & freedom of expression." He also remarks that he...

GLC04929

to James M. Pendergast

With postscript: "You've always had your say & I've had mine & I am as fond of you as I always have been."

GLC04935.02

Profiles in Courage

First edition, published by Harper & Brothers. Inscribed to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. and signed by Kennedy. Written during a period of convalescence, Senator Kennedy highlights the great courage and integrity of eight past senators. Kennedy's...

GLC05107

Letter by Henry Needham's widow

Needham, a journalist for Collier's was killed in a plane crash while covering WWI.

GLC03663.05

Slave Mutiny: the Revolt on the Schooner Amistad

Published by John Day Company. First edition. Comprises a dramatic retelling of the Amistad narrative, based on factual events of the mutiny and trial.

GLC05835

Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York

Published by Harcourt, Brace & Co.

GLC05875

American Slavers and the Federal Law: 1837-1862

Published by University of California Press. Discusses the illegal slave trade violated "mostly by Americans helping foreigners to carry slaves into Cuba or Brazil... also by Americans smuggling slaves into the states of the deep South."

GLC05879