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3 November 1948
Chicago daily tribune. [Vol. CVII, no. 264 (November 3, 1948)]
Infamous incorrect printing of the results of the 1948 election. Main headline reads, "Dewey Defeats Truman."
GLC08815
January 20, 1953
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
[First inaugural address]
Signed by Eisenhower on the first page. Focuses on protecting freedom and equality, unity and promoting international economic interdependence. Outlines nine principles to advance peace and freedom throughout the world. "The peace we seek, then...
GLC01548
February 20, 1946
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
to Kenneth W. Snyder
Writing to Snyder in Kansas City, Missouri, Truman responds to Snyder's 13 February 1946 letter and comments on an editorial from the Kansas City Star that advocated continued government participation in local community issues. Truman argues against...
GLC00782.21
March 31, 1950
to Dean Acheson
A personal letter to Acheson, then secretary of state. Responding to a letter of Acheson dated 28 March and enclosing a copy of his previous day's press conference. Mentions Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Henry Stimson as arguing from the...
GLC00782.22
1952/08/12
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963
[Portion of an address on the containment of Communism]
Incomplete draft of a speech Kennedy delivered 12 August 1952 to the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Federation of Labor. Reflects on Communist expansion and America's need to contain it. Working manuscript with many insertions and deletions...
GLC02313
1946
Bill, Alfred Hoyt, 1879-1964
The Beleaguered city: Richmond, 1861-1865
II Nevins 212.
GLC00267.226
1947
Eisenschiml, Otto, 1880-1963
The American Iliad; the epic story of the Civil War as narrated by eyewitnesses and contemporaries
Edited by Eisenschiml and Ralph Newman. 1st edition, published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company.
GLC00267.253
Blackford, Susan L., 1835-?
Letters from Lee's army...
Dornbusch 1194
GLC00267.343
1949
Williams, Kenneth P., 1887-1958
Lincoln finds a general: A Military Study of the Civil War
GLC00267.347
Grolier Club
One hundred influential American books printed before 1900...
(title continues)... Catalogue and addresses. Exhibition at The Grolier Club, April eighteenth-June sixteenth, MCMXLVI. Published by the Grolier Club. Contents include the committee's selections, "America as Frontier," a catalogue of the...
GLC00352
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